FEATUREDThis week’s roundup from Tasteologie and Liqurious includes peppermint pattie martinis, perfect roast potatoes, mini brie en croute and more.
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Nishi Chauhan 's Animal Farm explores the twin themes of craft revival and the repurposing of used objects. This first set of upcycled bottle lamps visualize six animal forms featuring the wood-lac turnery craft of Channapatna.
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Floating Lights, an Urban Art Light Installation in Fete des Lumieres 2012, Lyon, by Travesias de Luz.
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FEATUREDD&A Folding Guitar Stands (they fit in your back pocket!) and Wall Hangers (one automatically closes when you put your guitar in!). Beautifully designed and packaged ~ elegant and surprising details!
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Harmon Kardon takes their iconic Soundsticks to a new level by adding bluetooth! They sound great, and bluetooth adds so much versatility, from playing music from your phones, laptops, and more!
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Tara Hogan's INK+WIT Blissful Bears Letterpress Notecards
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Tarxia handmade iphone cases out of geometric mosaics from noble woods as Palo Santo, Ebony, Walnut, Venge, Sycamore, Sapele and Mahogany among others, and whenever possible from fallen trees.
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Cute packaging from Brandcentral for The Butler's Pantry meals.
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To-Bee by Lavi Bar. The home beehive and its associated equipment simplify beekeeping and introduce it as a hobby.
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FEATUREDA LEGO Santa Claus mech, 3D printed Christmas cookies Martian crates and more this week at NOTCOT.org
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FEATUREDNOTCOT Holiday Giveaway #34: Toy Boarders! Chance to win one of 5 packs of Toy Boarders series 2! Fun skateboarder versions of the classic green plastic army men!
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Beautiful recipe wall calendars featuring seasonal recipes from Liz Carver Design.
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One line illustration by Quibe, Cristophe Louis.
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After three months of research, planning, and meticulous sketching, British illustrator Jenni Sparks produced an intricate, hand-drawn map of New York City.
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Hoppy New Year! Fun Tree Frog piece - from 0123 to 2013!
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Tigertree, a small shop in Columbus, Ohio, built an incredible animated Christmas display.
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FEATUREDNOTCOT Holiday Giveaways ~ they are wrapping up, but still some awesome ones going on!!!
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Acase Black Diamond III, bluetooth speaker and accompanying light show, syncs with the rhythm of whatever is in your collection, and environment becomes mini remote-controlled night club.
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Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) designed a 420 ft tall mixed-use observation tower to serve as a symbol for the city of Phoenix, Arizona.
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Fred Lives Here's Charles the Chair - iconic Eames lounge chair in cement...
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The 'Year of Living Dangerously' is PangeaSeed’s newest twist to the typical print suite. A new print featuring a specific marine species threatened with extinction will be released each month over the course of 2013.
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In Kentucky, There Are More Barrels Of Bourbon Than There Are People. Awesome campaign rebranding Kentucky!
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Simple browser plugin that adds some Christmas Spirit to the depressing state of most Youtube comment threads. It automagically replaces things for 'chubby little elf' and 'new red train set' and more.
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FEATUREDStranger & Stranger Ultimate Deck - they've branched out from stunning alcohol packaging quite a bit this year, and to celebrate, you must see this incredibly detailed, gorgeous deck of cards... ambigram, skull seals, and more!
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VIDEOCai Guo-Qiang Makes a 40-Foot-Tall Pine Tree Explode.
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The Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona, has created this greeting card for Christmas, something different for a scientific institute.
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Extension cables are always stored away, but 'Anouk' is an extension cable that stays where it is needed, at the socket. By Christoph Thetard.
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Vipp comes along with another brand new product. Trivets made of laser-cut stainless steel that look absolutely fantastic.
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Designers of mode:lina have recently finalized a shop for Clae footwear. To create this space architects picked worn out euro pallets used during KontenerART 2012.
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Convert digital audio files into fully-functional 3D printed records.
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Watch David Wondrich make four historic cocktails: Brandy Crusta, Sherry Cobbler, Egg Nogg, and the awe-inspiring Blue Blazer.
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VIDEOMeet Fleur & Manu, the masterminds behind M83's Music Video Trilogy.
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Extra.ordinary Objects by Domingo Seminario de Col attempts to rescue and reinterpret functional objects through design, without altering too much of their original form.
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FEATUREDNOTCOT Holiday Giveaway #33: Oakley! Here's a chance to win your own customized Oakley Frogskins!
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VIDEOFirewall is a recent project from Mike Allison and Aaron Sherwood. It is a spandex screen that when pressed into creates beautiful fiery visuals and expressively plays music. A piece a new interactive media that re-imagines the touch interface.
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This is a designer worm bin and planter. Made with kiln treated poplar to create a mold resistant vessel for composting food scraps. Made by Michael Koliner and Ryan Hammond
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FEATUREDWintry driving school, grand mosques in Brunei and the beaches of Rio all feature in this week’s roundup from NotVentures.
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Lazika Municipality Building by Architects of Invention, a new building for a city to be, Lazika, Georgia.
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Fragile Pocket Calendar made by Kostantia Manthou.
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Nice pharmacy design with neon symbol incorporated into the façade by José Carlos Cruz.
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Laser cutters in the kitchen? A look at 'Laser Cookery' by Kentaro Fukuchi and colleagues at Meiji University from a cookery technology workshop in Nara, Japan.
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A look at the forgotten tales of the Brothers Grimm 200 years after the publication of Kinder-und Hausmärchen.
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Beautiful new covers from Jessica Hische for Penguin’s forthcoming Drop Cap series.
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Part bench, part chair, the Benchair by Thomas Schnur.
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VIDEOPenguin English Library's gorgeous animated short of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, directed by Woof Wan-Bau.
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3D Printing christmas cookies just for you from Ralf Holleis.
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TROPE capsule collection inspired by familiar and bright symbols of mass culture. TROPE candles are limited edition handmade candles. Every candle is an clever metaphor about idea of destruction daily things.
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VIDEONissan Heritage Series: Start of the Skyline Legend
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XL Records' offices in LA have been used to create extraordinary animated 'gif-iti' artwork for the launch of the new Atoms For Peace album
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The elegant Bella Rockin Laser cat toy inspired by modern art. The laser light bounces as the ball moves.
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FEATUREDNOTCOT Holiday Giveaway #32: Triple Aught Design! An urban adventurer super bundle of a Flux Hoodie, Merino Scarf, K9 Velcro Patch, and a Fisher Space Pen 400 TAD Edition.
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The end of the world never looked so good. Gorgeous infographic on the Mayan apocalypse from David McCandless.
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'Social housing' by the French architects from Tetrarc in Saint-Gilles Croix de Vie - France.
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Ants face a slippery slope when they venture onto pitcher plants. Scientists explore the tiny, precisely oriented hairs that are hard to climb up and create a slippery, wet film.
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A cardboard and paper pinhole camera designed by Gangwoo Park.
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FEATUREDNOTCOT Holiday Giveaway #31: Bittersweets NY is giving away one of their beautiful Silver Sword Necklaces (Yes, it is a silver version of those iconic plastic cocktail swords!)
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BouncyIrises by Xuedi Chen is a game that mixes the interaction of physical and digital objects. The objective of the game is to catch the digital projections by opening the mechanical irises.
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Barneys New York Electric Holiday event invitation created by design packaging inc includes multi-colored LED lights and 2 way mirrors!
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VIDEOIs that a real spider or just a decoy? Scientists discover a spider that builds its own spider-decoys out of leaves, debris and dead insects!
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VIDEOGALE is a crater on Mars near the northwestern part of the Aeolis quadrangle at 5.4°S 137.8°E.
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The Riding Bench from Singularité supported by connections made from elastic straps and leather.
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ISOTOPES, an audiovisual installation from Nonotak (Noemi Schipfer and Takami Nakamoto).
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VIDEOMakers & Brothers teamed up with The Social House, Designgoat and Joe Laird to create bespoke charred oak tumblers and oak boxes for Jameson Special Reserve whiskey.
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FEATUREDNOTCOT Holiday Giveaway #30: The Working Proof & Brevity Jewelry & Sub-studio. Chance to win Aztec Necklace and Animal Medley by bee things print with a decorative wood frame designed by Sub-Studio and made by NOTlabs!
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Nostalgia Monopoly with the original gameboard from one of the very first editions of the game and wooden box.
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Hyperstealth based in Canada claim that it has developed an invisible wearable cloak concept to provide complete imperceptibility– it doesn’t use cameras or mirrors or require power.
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Gorgeous food photography from Silvio Knezevic.
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Return of the Bikes. Every Year around twenty five thousand bikes are hoisted out into the canals in Amsterdam - this art installation seeks to highligt the problem.
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Pet Floats, so your pets can enjoy a day or relaxing as they drift around the pool.
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LDC (Lighting Design Collective)'s Silo 468 transforms a disused oil silo in Helsinki into a wondrous light display and a civic space.
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Zweimaleins and star chef Stefan Hartmann cook up something special for Xmas. With some tasty infographics and a little film, anyone can surprise their family and friends with a gourmet Christmas duck.
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VIDEOAdorable Wallace & Gromit Google+ Hangout Holiday Video!
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'Footbridge' by the architects DVVD in Villetaneuse - France.
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Paola Pivi's beautiful billboard situated near NYC's High Line.
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The generative art of Novastructura, a project by designer Giuseppe Randazzo
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Gingerbread Brooklyn: An entire NYC block made out of gingerbread by Renee Baumann.
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Makoto Azuma's incredible underwater bonsai.
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FEATUREDNOTCOT Holiday Giveaway #29: Geneva Sound Systems. 2 winners will receive a super Special Gold Edition Model S!
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FEATUREDPeppermint cocktails, Caramel Apple Upside-Down Noodle Kugel, bacon candy and more this week at Tasteologie and Liqurious.
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A tribute to Niemeyer in gingerbread: Architizer selects winner of the first annual Gingerbread House Competition!
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Refugia, the gorgeous new Chilean lodge on the island of Chiloé in Patagonia designed by Mobil Arquitectos.
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VIDEOThe EaTheramin, a theramin that plays as you eat. Every time you take a bite, you complete the circuit and trigger a sound.
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Unveiled: the making-of the Architizer A+ Awards trophy, designed by Snarkitecture.
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Alight Designs Bullseye Gameboard ~ perfect for aiming rubberbands, bottle caps, and any other projectiles smaller than a 4" diameter... fun camping game.
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Samplr, an app for the ipad that takes full advantage of the touch feature, allowing you to make music and play with sound by touching it with your fingers.
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Life on a cloud... Movable seating area by Thomas Hiemann and Markus Dilger
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Incredible microscope photography in the winning images of the Olympus Bioscapes Digital Imaging Competition.
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MOONLAND, the coffee table and container designed by Marco Guazzini. Exhibited at the Design Market area of “Abitare il Tempo”, Verona 2012.
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FEATUREDMusic Video Roundup! So much goodness to watch and listen too ~ from ghillie suits in the forest dancing to fraggles in ben folds five to playing music with a car to projection mapping on singers faces and more!
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A LEGO Santa Claus Mech for delivering all those toys.
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FEATUREDNOTCOT Holiday Giveaway #28: Fred & Friends! Chance to win Gator Clips, Sideview Mirror, Abominable Ice Tray, Coolamari Tray, Is the new black pencils, Sprout bookmarks, Crustache Crust Cutter, Drumstick Chopsticks, and MORE!
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Chillis so hot they explode? Love this photo series by Adam Voorhes for Men’s Health using firecrackers inside chilli peppers!
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VIDEOAutodesk Research's OrgOrgChart (Organic Organization Chart) visualising the evolution of a company's structure over time. Capturing each day between May 2007 and June 2011, a span of 1498 days.
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FEATUREDThis week’s roundup from NOTCOT.org includes cranberry wakeskating, baking cookies on an AMG, pencil sculptures and more.
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The Contour Coffee Table. A modern sculptural table made from bamboo and steel cable and held together by tension.
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FEATUREDNOTCOT Holiday Giveaway #27: Photojojo! Chance to win a bundle consisting of 4GB Eyefi, the Cell Lens Pouch (pouch w/ three lenses), Easy Macro Lens Band, Seat Belt Camera Strap, Photoshop magnets, and a Light Paint Can.
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