FEATURED Wow. The Athabasca Glacier and Skywalk in the Columbia Icefield make you feel tiny. See how different they look from September to February! (Also, best graphics on their warning signs!)
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Beautiful textures and colors of bark captured by photographer Cedric Pollet.
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New Alex Chinneck’s installation for Vauxhall Motors unveiled at Southbank Centre
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Honeyflow, a new take on the honeybee hive that allows you to collect and watch the honey flow from the hive!
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FEATURED Duchess Bake Shop & Provisions in Edmonton have become quite the pastry destination. Provisions offers an impressive selection of hard to find baking ingredients, tools, and cookbooks. Take a peek inside, and at their new cookbook!
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Little Bishop – A Ceiling Hook for Cable Hung Pendant Lights
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VIDEO...meanwhile...an short film capturing underwater marvels from Sandro Bocci.
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An appetizer upgrade that is elegantly luxe looking, but pretty darn simple to pull off. Oyster on the half shell topped with wine-butter infused black soba noodles, uni and caviar.
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Fabrication project printed in 3D, related to the city where the company is located. Joining the 4 cards all together, some of the most significant Barcelona areas are recreated: Ciutat Vella, Gràcia and l’Eixample
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FEATUREDIcewalk through Maligne Canyon in Jasper National Park. Over and under the ice shelves (i crawled in there!), squeezing behind walls of ice and more to experience the inspiring ice formations. Bucket list worthy for sure.
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YOIN Design & Craft designed the Pool Chair after reflecting on memories of climbing up from the pool after swimming.
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Mathieu Triay's Little Black Classics for Penguin ebooks.
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VIDEOHand Push Engraving With the Speitzer/Onglette Graver by Sam Alfano.
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Ribbon Chapel by Hiroshi Nakamura & Nap Co.
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They're called Dutch Invertuals and for the past few years have been the protagonists of bizarre communication campaigns to present their works at Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven.
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Mike Bain turns airport runways into abstract art.
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The newly designed TE14 Headlamp flashlight by Third Eye Headlamps lights up the cliffs at Sand Dollar Beach in Big Sur, California.
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FEATURED Oliver Apt Cutting Board Workshop in Edmonton! We hop in the studio with 3rd generation carpenter/designer, Landon Schedler, and make laminated, faceted, walnut and maple cutting boards. See how it's done.
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Table Leaf ntroduces an organic tabletop, shaped with an elegant design and handcrafted african sustainable sucupira hard wood, dualing a material dialog with hi-tech anti mosquito coatings and his impressive black lacquered tittanium smooth structure.
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A look at the Barbican's Magnificent Obsessions exhibition by Creative Review.
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VIDEOPaint. A Short Lego Film by Jon Rolph.
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Cărtureşti Carusel Bookshop in Bucharest Romania designed by Square One in the Chrissoveloni bank building.
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FEATUREDEdmonton Silver Skate Festival -The perfect intro to all things winter fun: dog sledding, ice skating on the frozen lake, snow sculptures, snow mazes and ice slides, live music, and so much more.
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The kid friendly Fiii Fun House by Íris Cantante in Buenos Aires, Argentina featuring a variety of spaces including a table with swings for chairs.
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Design firm +tongtong was enlisted to reinvent a tired bed and breakfast and original, c. 1880 foundry into an 11-room and two-suite contemporary inn, the Drake Devonshire Inn in Wellington.
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FEATUREDElk Island National Park is filled with Bison! (They also have adorable stress bison in their visitor's center) And it is just outside Edmonton! Incredible how many bison you can see even from the highway going through.
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Söderhavet develop Sweden Sans, a national font for Sweden.
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Researchers believe teeth of the limpet may be the strongest natural material (even stronger than spider silk).
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MSGS is a set of shelves with various sizes and shapes inspired by the profile of icebergs. The use of marble appeared obvious as refering to the precious and pure characteristics of icebergs, while the structure of steel represents their geometry.
This project is the outcome of a collaboration between designer Lucas Stoppele and designer Jean-Charles Kien.
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LIKEarchitects designs wonderWALL, an exhibition space with 20,000 fabric strips, to host Jen Lewin’s interactive light installation, ‘The Pool’.
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Using facial recognition technology to print your face on a pancake and more twists on pancake day.
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Tabouret LS01, a stool from La Subtile that slots together.
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'Numeral' collection of 3D house numbers by Daast. A playful and somewhat irreverent approach has been taken to the utilitarian role of numbers as functional signifiers.
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Sunny metal furniture collection. Each element imitates a sharp shadow at bright sunny day…
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Gorgeous Tribeca Loft conversion by Andrew Franz transforms the 1884 caviar warehouse.
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Gorgeous black and white doodles from Kerby Rosanes.
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The cold bruer uses a slow drip process and looks beautiful too.
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Incredible wire scukptures by Kendra Haste. The artist currently has an installation at the Tower of London.
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Boat House in Georgian Bay, Ontario by Weiss Architecture and Urbanism.
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Pokémon Rebranded As Corporate Logos by Pictogram.
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FEATUREDInspiration: YEG! Stepping off the plane for Part II of the NOTCOT Alberta Great Escape, Edmonton Airport has a stunning living wall and surprising displays at the baggage claim carousels!
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Streetart: New Pieces by Etam Cru for POW! WOW! Hawaii 2015.
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Baba Yaga - an new absinthe from Arbutus Distillery - has a bottle sleeve that reveals a wicked, toothy grin when it's removed.
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Smart Rope is an LED-embedded jump rope that works with your smartphone, displaying fitness data in mid-air, right before your eyes.
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Stockholm's Spiritmuseum on Djurgården includes a beer gallery designed by Form Us With Love.
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OFFSET BOXES & TRAYS. This project is a series of geometric wooden trays and boxes of different sizes and shapes.
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"Anomaly" - Realistic Oil Paintings of Fabled Characters and Creatures In The Modern World by Matthew Grabelsky.
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Cabins, a new title from Taschen by Philip Jodidio.
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The unusual face of a baby bilby at Taronga Zoo.
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Polish Zalewski Architecture Group designed a walk-on balcony suspended in the middle of a dark courtyard in Gliwice, Poland.
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Forest Loops, a sculptural playground in Hamakita, Japan by Suppose Design Office.
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Blackwater, a gorgeous macrophotography series by Joshua Lambus that captures bioluminescent marine life.
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CHROFI's project Lune de Sang: a vision that goes beyond one’s lifetime. The inter-generational venture transforms a significant former dairying property in northern NSW into a sustainably harvested forest.
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The Good Interactive Guide to Nutrition and the Human Body lets you explore how vitamins help maintain our wellbeing.
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VIDEOPaul Parker captures the flight paths of gulls over Cornwall with the echo effect.
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The legless barstool by Josh Carmody uses a diagonal cross brace to offer support and create an optical illusion.
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FEATURED#NOTCOTinALBERTA - see part I: exploring fall with bucky! See some of the amazing sites and creatures we saw! Starting today is part II. We'll be in Alberta dog sledding, ice climbing, and more for a week! (Follow on instagram: @NOTlabs)
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'Bud': A smart pregnancy device that acts as a support system for pregnant women. Using smart printer technology, it prints daily messages about baby's development and medical suggestions.
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Illustrator Bobby O'Herlihy introduces his newest pinup series! Meet the Bad Sign Girls.
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'Will You Be My Valentine?' Dinogrenade by Ron English. Limited edition of 100 pieces.
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Pivotte! Why aren't all clothes both beautiful and durable? Pivotte is kickstarting women's work/play basics, out of a signature tailored stretch fabric to be flattering, comfortable and resistant to water and stains!
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From Japanese design group Kuralab, an ordinary looking black folding umbrella, decorated with cute, smiley-faced cartoon transistors and diodes.
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Tango, beautiful floor lamp designed by Francisco Gomez Paz for Luceplan.
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Hallucination, a magnetic hanger system, by Japanese designer Yukio Kimura.
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Porceplane by Flatau Florian (DE) x K.Olin tribu // First paper plane in porcelain Limoges France
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Wall or Coat Hook, simple, with clever mounting system, by Munich based designer Gerhardt Kellermann.
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Kids Museum of Glass - China’s first design museum for kids invites children to learn the basics of glass in a playful and fun way.
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Robotic Extrusion - Robotic 6-Axis 3D Printing. Custom robotic dynamic end effector creates 3D forms biomimicking spider webs. Project by Shi Ji collaboration with Liu Xun, Luo Ruihua, Cui Yuqi.
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Lepke Coffee Table, formable, with adjustable heights, by rotating the wooden slats.
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Friends & Founders Bench Net - gorgeous indoor/outdoor net made of metal powdercoated in white, black, copper brown, or bronze.
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Universo Positivo Hats & Coat Racks made of oak and metal
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X-Holes by RMK Design for Kukka. A designer update to the usual pegboards... in circle and square designs.
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'MATHEMATICS' scissors designed by iAN Yen & Design YxR - a new aesthetics of the scissors with golden ratio and good proportion.
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Artist and toy maker Joe Ledbetter is proud to release his latest vinyl figure: Ice-Cat. Only available from his website this Friday.
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3D printable Roshe Run, this is a tribute to one of the greatest sneakers ever! Created by designer Joe Bowers.
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Camille Hesnard's Paysage Lamp, a modular table lamp.
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Alix Videlier, young French designer returns to BED following the presentation of his shepherdess BAO RIGOLE to unveil his latest project modular console to your entry.
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Architecture firm L. McComber ltée re-purposes old attic beams into new a bookcase and swing for the renovation of a Plateau Mont-Royal dwelling.
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EDGY, manufactured by KAZA Concrete, consists of two tiles, one being three dimensional, the other, two and half dimensional. Apply to interior or exterior surfaces, covering walls partially or entirely.
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Hand Mirrors by mpgmb, made with wood fiber panel colored throughout with organic dyes.
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Where's Wallet wants you to find the 25 Technology Icons in this homage to Where's Waldo by illustrator Harry Bloom.
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Adobe's Kickbox - a red box filled with Money ($1000), Instructions, Innovation Tools, and Caffeine/Sugar (Starbucks card + chocolate) that any employee can request. You can also download the materials and kickbox yourself!
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3Gatti uses 10,000-fiberglass shapes to create the undulating ceiling at SND Concept Store.
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Studio Rik Ten Velden's Femme Chair - part of the 'Single Knotted Wire' project inspired by knotting techniques used on ships.
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Mischer'Traxler's flute for Perrier-Jouët makes the bubbles come from the moth! Such a nice use of the fact that bubbles form from the imperfections of the glass. Incredible that they managed to etch inside it so delicately.
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FEATUREDFlash it! Our NOTCOT In Plain Sight Collection of handmade (by me!) leather key chains and bag tags with subtle reflective stripes that POP when you flash them!
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Arizona Collection by mpgmb. Materials: Glazed stoneware and unglazed terracotta.
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Making of: Be Dior Bag - Go behind the scenes at the French couture house Dior to watch the expert craftsmen at work.
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Bookniture unfolds from a book to multifunctional furniture. In just a flip, you will never run out of tables and seats.
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Ark Rocker, a rocking chair hybridizing traditional craft techniques and cutting-edge digital fabrication tools to create multiplicity with sensuality. By Xander Bremer at Autodesk's Pier 9 Workshop, San Francisco.
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Balloon Invasions by Charles Pétillon are metaphors. Their goal is to change the way in which we see the things we live alongside each day without really noticing them.
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Mamet Lamps are conceived by the architect Pablo Carballal based on his familiarity with the daily life in creative work spaces. They set substance and class as stimulus for thought provoking work and aspire to illuminate many great ideas.
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Two Icelandic artists create hand-painted 3D prints of animal skulls, just incredible, and more amazingly, unicorn skulls!
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White Glass, a minimal pendant light made out of mouthblown glass and COB leds. By Gonzalez Garrido.
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VIDEOAndroid: Friends Furever. Ridiculously adorable advert of unexpected animal friends. Bucky, the NOTpuppy, pops up and can't look away from the TV every time it comes on. How about your pets?
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