Technological Rainforest Furniture designed by Muuaaa, using parametric design and assembly to create tessellated wooden furniture by local carpenters.

The Map of Truth and Deception, a visual representation we designed of Pamela Meyer’s TedTalk on the science of lie-spotting.

Bubble Chandelier by Souda is made from post-consumer PET bottles collected by the homeless in New York City. Portion of proceeds donated to Sure We Can.

Finger-like instabilities created by differences in surface tension between two layers of fluid.

My Scandinavian Home has a look inside the home of By Nord owner, Hanne Berzant. Of course, lots of her stunning pillows everywhere - beautiful!

'Hôtel d’Enterprises' by French architects from Platform Architectures in Hérouville-Saint-Clair, France.

Adorable little "Luke" ghost lamps - bright enough to read to, and they have a night light mode. Designed by Karim Rashid for Lucedentro.

Method has a limited edition line using "Ocean Plastic" - "the world’s first bottles made with a blend of recovered ocean plastic and post-consumer recycled plastic, a combination that results in a uniquely gray resin."

Beautiful portraits by David Johnson. This is Charles Dickens.

The New York Doughnut Map from All-You-Can-Eat Press.

The Smolenka Apartment in Moscow by Peter Kostelov.

Andrea Rekaldis' PiantaLà ~ a fence that you can grow plants on!

FEATUREDEpic post filled with all the cell phone pics that didn't make it into posts from london + florence - amazing street art, huge LV Kusamas, surfboard conveyor belt, florence mini cars, sheep, shipping container mall, web lab and more!

Eliooo is an instruction book about how to build a hydroponic system to grow plants, herbs, or vegetables in your apartment, using IKEA components.

The taming of the beasts, beautiful rhino street art in Shanghai.

'Put a Bird in It' installation of birdhouses around Portland, with contributions by 75+ artists. The birdhouses will be auctioned off during Design Week Portland with proceeds going to art and music education.

Nendo's Bird-Apartment, a treehouse designed for the Ando Momofuku Center, a facility devoted to promoting and increasing access to nature activities. The treehouse holds one person and 78 birds!

FEATUREDBlack Ice Crame Cones of Eisdieler: Verboden Lekker in Linz from #49907 ~ we had to know more, so went back again, and took pics of the crazy menu filled with more unusual pics!

FEATUREDThe tiny mustache is all you need to turn a building into a face! Also in this latest post of NOTCOT inspiration from Linz - great typography and signage, set up F.U.C.K. project, toy cars i want, Ars Electronic lit up + more!

In light of the Pen Type-A/Torr situation #49788, here's a great must read from Core77 - their series "The Design of Design Patents: What Every Designer Should Know About Protecting Your Work"

Vipp's newest series is ceramic! Everything you need for setting up a good looking breakfast table.

Philadelphia-based artist Yis 'Nosego' Goodwin collaborates with Point B Design on the Nodulus Artist Series, a set of colorful barstools.

Fathom and Form Spinal Cuff ~ spotted this piece on the founder, Carleigh, in Maggie Mason and Mai Le's post on Outside Lands fashion. 3d printed bronze infused stainless steel!

A Letter Opener Made of Old Letters from PLANT design studio. The blade is constructed from a fusion of 100% post consumer recycled paper and a clear, 100% water-based resin made using cashew nut shells!

The FoodMap Container, edible garden on wheels that can be moved easily as needed. From Santa Monica-based FoodMap Design, made with 100% post-consumer recycled food-grade HDPE (from curb-side recycled milk jugs).

SwingPack (part of 01Mathery's idea a day for 100 days) - A swing made out of plastic wrap!

FEATUREDDirty Burger (& Dirty Breakfast) pop up in a back alley behind Soho House, London. For now, London's latest burger joint is on the move, popping up across the city, but is getting ready to open a more permanent home at the end of August!

Peckham Space art gallery launches a new public artwork on Peckham Square. The Peckham Peace Wall by Garudio Studiage celebrates the post-it notes of love and respect for the area which grew on Rye Lane in the aftermath of the 2011 London riots.

Taiwanese artist Mia Wen-Hsuan Liu took thousands of punched admission tickets from the Guggenheim Museum to create this artistic masterpiece.

The Veracruz 60 Apartment in Mexico City by JSa Architecture.

Firefighter Vodka, playful packaging design by Timur Salikhov.

Combining pencil stubs and washers for spinning top/drawing tools...

FEATUREDHighlighting the absurdity of some Yelp Reviews ~ here are actors reading them! Hilarious.

A rainbow sprinkler of paint by Edwin Deen.

Swarms of post-it notes and other everyday objects in Thomas Jackson's latest additions to his Emergent Behavior series.

'The Myriad Monikers of Gotham’s Villains' is the definitive guide to Gotham mayhem from Pop Chart Lab.

Unfold Studio's 3D Printing Kiosk 2.0 ~ For the exhibition After the Bit Rush, Design in a Post-Digital Age. "Kiosk is a project that explores a near future scenario in which digital fabricators are so ubiquitous, that we see them appear on street corners"

Hadron Colliders Art Print w/ Cyan + Magenta variation from Paloma Chavez.

How do you answer a phone made entirely out of gelatin? "Jell-O? JELLLL-OOOOO!?" Dustin Black brings you an animated .gif of the ringing Jell-O phone.

Luminaire Post is a minimal light fixture designed by Studio Ninho. Composed of cork, recycled cork sheet, pinewood, and flexible pp wiring, the construction of this light is extremely simple.

The evolution of the Batman symbol.

FEATUREDMcDonald's shares an inside look it what it takes to make their burgers look good in a picture.

Melbourne architects Michael Ong and Sarah Crowley make jewellery that you’d want to live in. Their brooches are inspired by the detail of their own apartments.

FEATUREDSelf Stirring Pot! A cleverly designed pot that uses convection to constantly stir itself.

"Shoes Books and a Bike" by Postfossil, allows you to frame your bike and gives it a deserved place of honor in your apartment....like a trophy in a glass jar.

Tokyo Bike release artist commissioned bicycles to celebrate their London launch.

VIDEOZeroN, a physical and digital interaction element that floats and moves in space by computer-controlled magnetic levitation. Created by Jinha Lee, in collaboration with Rehmi Post, and Hiroshi Ishii.

Street Artists from Hamburg gave advertising their own touch.

Tokyo Plastic render doodles of possible sex toy characters

FEATUREDMy favorite NOTCOT spots in NY ~ guest post on Mulberry's blog!

Amazing advertising Trident White. Don't coffee-block your smile.

W+K 12 painted a Maurice Sendak (1928-2012) tribute mural yesterday. Today we turned it into a photo booth to let everyone channel their inner MAX.

Urban Plant tags from Carmichael Collective. If you ever wanted to know how to treat a mailbox or lamp post the right way: These urban plant tags by Carmichael Collective might come handy!

Glow cotton candy (it's on a glow stick!)

Post Living creates unique pieces of furniture featuring exclusive art prints - pictured is 'The Owler' series from Pete Fowler.

Poster of the skin with tattoos as advertising salon Chaos Crew Tattoo Studio.

The ellipsoidal Terra Light, composed of 190 terracotta flowerpots, featured at the Milan Furniture Fair. By Tyson Atwell, RISD Furniture MFA '12.

Featured at Milan Furniture Fair, Communicable Seats are constructed from disposable syringes, by Jamie Wolfond, RISD Furniture BFA '13.

The LA Times has a look into the interiors of Mad Men's Don Draper's new digs this season... down to the sourcing and inspiration of the furniture, kitchen and more!

Spingtime is here; pin your walls pretty, with FlowerNail!

FEATUREDKBL Eyewear ~ fell in love with a few of their sunglasses at Alexander Gray. Fun to see their inspiration for collections like sea glass and guitars!

OLO (seen as #42252) has been updated! This is a simple and addictive social game of skill and strategy for iPad developed by London-based interactive design studio, Sennep.

Marshall Fridge is as cool as rock'n' roll.

FEATUREDDominic Wilcox recreates some quintessentially British scenes out of Jaffa Cakes! (Yes, that's the Lochness Monster, Nessie!)

FEATUREDGlowing sushi: a video shows how to make fluorescent sushi at home.

Furever, a film by Amy Finkel, a documentary film about post-mortal pet preservation. That's right, like having your pet taxidermied.

FEATUREDAmazing stop animation featuring a creative interpretation of a fresh guacamole recipe from PES.

VIDEOAmazing footage of a chicken embryo's beating heart made visible through the injection of dark ink into the yolk sac artery. [Editor's note: part of the amazing 2011 Nikon Small World in Motion featured in #46029].

FEATUREDCowgirl Vegetarian Cassoulet and a trip to the desert to test drive the new Wabi Nabe cast iron pot from ODLCO. Complete with recipe, video, and horses!

FEATUREDGin & Tonic & Steak ~ A little time on the fire is the last step for this amazing 24 hour Beef roast, the cornerstone of at night at The Eveleigh in West Hollywood hosted by Beefeater and Plymouth Gin.

Scottish designer Kyla McCallum folded 20,000 pages of 67 books by hand to create this stunning sculptural skirt.

FEATUREDYogurt Hacking ~ Tuur Van Balen explains in this short 7 minute video how to trick bacteria into making a red yogurt full of beta-carotene... and prozac!

FEATUREDA Valentine's Day look inside the inspiring world of Wieden + Kennedy's NYC office... from fun murals to giant shoes to post it maps and sportscenter ads in the making... and a fun vday surprise!

FEATUREDAlinea's Edible Balloon ~ A video introduction to a delicious dessert that's lighter than air!

FEATUREDA last minute Valentine's DIY present. Turn the ice dispenser on your refrigerator door into a candy machine.

Le3 invites you to discover 'Golden Tiger'. An amazing running tiger blending into the lights of the streets of Paris during the night. On the video, a motion street mapping with no post production FX.

A new set of Royal Mail stamps featuring some of Roald Dah's most popular characters is just out from the Post Office as illustrated by Quentin Blake.

Core77 has an amazing post on how Carousel USA's Automotive turntables are made...

Incredible animals captured in BIC pen by Sarah Esteje.

TheLarderBox.com combines three of my favorite things… Post, surprises & food: A new service from Love Your Larder, which specializes in bringing you gorgeous, one-off, edible goodies.

Simple graphic explaining Where Ideas Come From from aspindle.

Cute post at Heavy Petal on how to save tomato seeds (for planting your own!)

Honeycomb chair is a high chair made of bamboo. The bamboo is bent to form a strong honeycomb structure. By Ching Chi Huang.

We've reduced out fat intake, but obesity is still thriving. The verdict is that it's not fat's fault. The culprit storing fat on our bodies is really carbohydrates. Check out this infographic from Massive Health.

Rebecca Ing captures the beautiful collision of two liquid jets of sugar syrup at a low rate of flow (left) and high rate of flow (right).

A sneak peek at Pop Chart Lab's 'Cosmology of Classic Cocktails'.

STOP PIPA/SOPA - Huffington Post goes black with a huge black square - to inform about the Stop SOPA Blackout.

FEATUREDAmerica's Test Kitchen reviews several fire extinguishers and puts them through real kitchen fire scenarios. Not all fire extinguishers are created equal!

Typographic Chocolate Slabs by Dynamo Montréal.

One of 3 birdhouses by Manuela Rammelmeier. To transform the city noise into a better, more relaxed one via helping birds to sing louder, while they’re sitting in their house.

Ikea installs an apartment in the parisian metro. Five people will live there in front of people for 6 days.

FEATUREDA hilarious short from Todd Strauss-Schulson exploring the downside to the Master Cleanse and its accompanying relationship fall out.

"This sound installation depicts the possible problems of the flow of information. It tries to reflect the human misaudition, the lapse of information and the social problems which derive from these."

Paul Smith's The Isle Of Man Stamp Collection, a compendium of stamps and postcards to commemorate the London 2012 Olympic Games for the Isle of Man Post Office.

FEATUREDBytesize Science takes an animated look at the science behind champagne.

FEATUREDStrawberry Sparkle ~ A great video showing how to make a fresh drink to celebrate New Year's Eve!

FEATUREDFeast of Fiction ~ A new weekly web cooking show takes on fictional foods from video games and movies. From Skyrim Sunlight Soufflé to Harry Potter's Butterbeer...

Creative Something's Rules of a Creator's Life 2011/12 Edition.

We skipped the gingerbread men this year and decided to make some cookies a little closer to home. City dwellers will be familiar with these gingerbread bodegas.

FEATUREDStunning simple little film around the making of an alternative christmas ginger jam sponge cake. It's a gingerbread house on top of a cake!

FEATURED"As Above, So Below" stunningly beautiful projection mapping by Light Harvest at the DUMBO Art Show - including stop motion animation, and the suspension of over twenty performance artists from fly wires at sixteen feet off the ground.

FEATUREDRob Whitworth takes us on an adventure through "Traffic in Frenetic HCMC, Vietnam" and it's an absolute trip to see how crazed it is through 10,000 RAW images!

FEATUREDThere's something fun about seeing Santa flying around in Beverly Hills... and model/mannequins looking catty surrounded by holiday decore glowing in the night...

FEATUREDRobots invade the kitchen again! The Intelligent Autonomous Systems Group at Technische Universität München have encouraged them to take over the world of popcorn and salami sandwiches!

FEATUREDA video explanation of Modernist Cuisines's ultimate burger... full of single orientation ground meat, engineered cheese, a cryofried patty and more.

Peter Kostelov's clever floor space adding design of this Moscow apartment.

FEATUREDThis automated ketchup squirting robot has its own theme music... Words do not begin to describe the strange awesomeness of this video.

A typography project inspired by the arctic and Stacie Cassarino's poem, Northwest.

FEATUREDDr Breakfast ~ A hilarious animated short from Stephen Neary about deer preparing dinner and a soul's escape to consume everything for breakfast!

FEATUREDE.T. made of Redvines ~ It's just one of the great licorice sculpture portraits from Jason Mercier in his new show Liqourice Flix... Movie moments captured in candy at iam8bit Gallery in Los Angeles!

FEATUREDThe Professional Chef comes to the iPad - The classic Culinary Institute of America's textbook is now available full of videos and other digital enhancements on the iPad.

FEATUREDSemi Sweet Bakery, a new downtown Los Angeles sometimes sweet bake shop, gives the humble Ding Dong a gourmet makeover.

Scrumptious Reads - a pop-up shop in Brisbane made entirely from paper cups!

FEATUREDHighspeed Pumpkin Carving~ Knowhow Shop gets in the holiday spirit with some precision CNC milling to carve pumpkins.

VIDEOBerlin based artist duo S. Guzy and B. Wiede invited us to their studio and allowed us to get a glimpse of their fascinating screenprinting techniques.

FEATUREDJelly cones dance on speakers in this series of videos: Get Your Jelly On ~ Billy Law of A Table for Two

FEATUREDFukuburger LA ~ Las Vegas's Asian fusion burgers have landed in LA. Lots of inventive flavor combinations and a sort of Japanese inspired poutine!

FEATUREDStella Artois has the lovely Audrey show you how to make the perfect pour in this bizarre surreal fake 60's era video.

FEATUREDBeautiful curved woodwork and laser etched wooden nickels.. all made by Knowhow Shop LA for Los Angeles's slow fast food mecca The Oinkster.

FEATUREDMap of California's Post WWII Automotive Design Studios

On the Corner, a beautiful apartment complex by EASTERN design office in Shiga, Japan.

FEATURED The Pie Hole ~ Downtown Los Angeles's newest pie shop just wants to "do right by the pie." They have a cute shop full of a great selection of rotating handmade-from-scratch seasonal pies... and one filled with mac and cheese.

FEATUREDGolden Road Brewery ~ A look at the grand opening of Los Angeles's newest and largest craft brewery.

Canada's National Post looks at the final volume of the MOME anthology series.

Romanian studio Re-Act, together with architect Mario Kuibus made the concept of a modern, elegant apartment inspired by neon electric colors.

VIDEOBerlin based artist Yvonne Andreini gives an insight into her creative process from her studio...

Dutch design agency Gummo was awarded a prestigious commission to design a new series of postage stamps for the TNT Post (now Post NL).

FEATUREDRoasting Chickens - One baked in clay, another baked in bread. Both smashed open. Delicious.

FEATUREDA trip to High West, Utah's only whiskey distillery, and a look at some of the hand crafted cocktails at Montage Deer Valley... Bourbon mixed with rye and a whiskey made from oats!

Simple and elegant tribute to the late Steve Jobs by Jonathan Mak.

FEATUREDPress Club ~ San Francisco's wine lounge and tasting room now offers an ever growing collection of eclectic beers! The are getting as serious about beer as they are wine.

A robot for your teacup! Robot tea infuser from ModCloth.

The Beauteous Bike Lanes of New York City from Pop Chart Lab.

FEATUREDClift's Living Room playfully maintains the feeling of a hunting lodge, replacing stuffed animal trophies with a whimsical portrait series of a toy collection by Jean-Baptiste Mondino.

FEATUREDThis Peruvian chocolate was once thought extinct. They managed to bring it back and Montage Deer Valley makes it the centerpiece of their housemade chocolates.

FEATUREDAdventures at Oktoberfest, Munich with Mercedes-Benz. Pictures of the food, the people, and the incredible "tents" and booths popped up to hold hundreds of thousands for a mere two weeks.

FEATUREDAdventures with Molecular Gastronomy at lunch in Munich ~ Proscuitto e melone where it is melon caviar with ham foam... squirting parsley from a syringe into tomato consommé... foie gras ice cream... air salad.

FEATUREDTasteologie vs A Rainbow Trout ~ Montage Deer Valley invited us up to Utah to try our hand at fly fishing with delicious results.

A bed, room divider, wardrobe and maybe even more. Made of recycled seatbelts and a steel frame, this piece of furniture is absolutely lovely.

Sometimes the friendly slopes turn hostile and every bit of survival skills needed. Jung Hoon Lee, Jung Eun Kim and Hyun Min Lee have conceptualized a snowboard/post with an OLED Safety Light embedded into the surface.

FEATUREDA closer look at some of the beer made for Montage Deer Valley in which we meet the hotel, Utah, the brewer, and an adorable dog.

The village used to be a place where kings and emperors came at the turn of the 19th century. Many of these hotels are still there. This place releases fantasies, which inspires many people to visit.

FEATUREDA beautiful nest of whole wheat carbonara with caviar, avocado halibut crudo, and gelato topped in cotton candy.... just some of the amazing dishes at Culina, a modern Italian restaurant in Four Seasons Los Angeles at Beverly Hills.

FEATUREDDemitasse ~ Little Tokyo's new cafe and coffee bar features a ever rotating variety of single source coffees like this freshly siphoned pot of Tanzanian Peaberry Kanyovu... and a fun video of the siphon in action!