Tiny camera stamps from Japanese distributor Decole for a nostalgic nod to vintage cameras.

A cross between This Is Indexed and XKCD, Graphene is a new weekly comic with a shrewdly mathematical design edge.

PIG OUT Metal Postcard by Es Collection

LUDD, Baby’s Exclusive Basics new packaging for packs of 2, 3 or 4 garments’ containers.

Plama | marble run 2d. Swiss Design studio Bernhard Burkard designed an amazing marble run for magnetic walls. There are thousands of ways to create an individual path for the marble.

Go down the rabbit hole with the fantastic images from the LA based Hive Gallery's second annual Alice in Wonderland themed show, with works from Bats Langley (pictured above), Christopher Umana, Walt Hall, and more!

Blimpus is a collection of inflatable designer characters. There is a blank DIY, DIY with sticker hit, and fully printed designer editions.

The LEGO architecture exhibition, currently showing at the National Building Museum in Washington DC.

Bome baby high chair. Bome = Baby +Home
Designed by o-d-a for Japanese baby furniture brand, Katoji.

steinmannli "a game of skill from the Swiss mountains"

FEATUREDPlattfuss - recycled bicycle inner tubes turned into rubber bands!

A sneak peek at the latest in Ralph Cosentino's amazing line of early-reader books about DC superheroes – Wonder Woman. Modern take on classic characters... for kids!

Drawing Doll Hero ~ scribble away, and it can wash right off...

FEATUREDInside Bender's head ~ the Futurama Complete Collection DVD set... some of the awesomest, silliest packaging ever, complete with a heart warming note.

FEATUREDFuturama Season 5 DVD/Blu-ray have awesome graphics... check out the packaging details (and a peek at Dexter's Laboratory too)

Giffi from Kuan-Ju Wu. New interactive construction kit! Don't miss the end of the video!

gt2P creates DNA of families of products. 'Bubble Car' belongs to a family of toys made by this parametric design and fabrication Chilean studio.

FEATUREDFavorite find in Mexico ~ Deportistas flip books ~ sport themed tex avery style animations that all end with a twist! AND i found a video of all of them set to music! Adorably cute.

The Barcode Piano, both a musical instrument and toy for children to explore the principles behind barcodes through music. A tangible interface that associates each number of a barcode with a musical tone.

I don't normally advocate gifting Trojan horses, but this little one is too cute not to share. By Alex Hellum for Kidsonroof, this recycled cardboard horse can be a toy and a stool.

Writer and illustrator David Lucas's cute children's book Whale.

Polar Composition, a cute wall graphic from A Modern Eden (of the iPhone apps and from creative firm FORGE) by Blik.

ABC Expedition introduces children to letters and animals as told through the voice and humour of explorer Captain Alistair J.Wallace. Populated with lively animations, funny sayings and all wrapped up in a design friendly package.

'Crayate' is an exciting new crayon based coloring-in app for the iPad. Created by MrBooth using Ben the Illustrator's linework it's great fun for kids and adults.

Who doesn't like coasters to put there nice cold refreshments on? Well Alimo does... 10 designs/ 1 package = Awesome promotional gift to your favorite agency. Check it out!

The cute and unique packaging for Valentine's Day Treats!

Mattel's new Hot Wheels Video Racer houses a VGA video camera that can capture 30 to 60 frames per second and a .95-inch LCD.

Adorable little Toygami owl to build yourself by 3EyedBear.

Skip Hop's Bento ultimate diaper bag includes an insulated mealtime kit, lots of pockets, padded tote straps, an adjustable messenger strap and Shuttle Clips to attach it to any stroller.

Patrick Hruby's ABC is for Circus.

FEATUREDAR.Drone Parrot at CES ~ they have fun outdoor spaces this year, and these iphone/ipad controlled quadricopters even allow you to play AR shooter games now!

Peekaboo Forest is an app made for kids based on Charley Harper's illustrations.

Crayola + Griffin = ColorStudio HD for your iPad... the iMarker intrigues me more than the coloring book... can i use that for general ipadding?

Pick your white and color the polar bears in a whole white world! The Polar Bears coloring book from Toronto Zoo. 20 pages to color and 5 crayons (snowball white, polar white, frost white, igloo white and the popular Arctic white).

FEATUREDA Gift Guide for Jetsetting with Kids! Particularly the younger ones...

Popville Pop Up Book by Anouck Boisrobert and Louis Rigaud - adorable! See the video if it in action!

The Konstantin Beta sit-on toy by Nika Zupanc - 20LTD special edition

VIDEOIt's pure feel-goodery for the new year. A video of kids from Shanti Bhavan in INDIA dancing to a remix Yelle's Ce Jeu. The video was created by American artist Yazmany Arboleda during his artist residency.

Bob's Your Uncle has the cutest flash cards - A-Z Animal Flashcard Set with illustrations by Mark Fisher

Wooden Octopus (and babies!) Puzzle to help kids learn counting and coordination

FEATUREDMontessorium ~ in addition to the Math and Letters apps, there is now Alpha Writer! Perfect for the little kids in your life...

It's a skate park, on a skateboard, in a skate park.

House Industries makes some gorgeous blocks for Herman Miller Japan! The packaging by Advance Packaging is beautiful!

Revenge Is Tees ~ cute Save Some For Us kids graphic tshirt

Israeli Creation | Two Industrial Designers
A collaboration between Daniella Lehavi, Ran Kazes and Liran Elbaz.

Porsche design Bobsleigh

Porsche Baby 911 Speedster - too cute for words.

FEATUREDFrench company, Art & Toy, has created these stunning limited edition Lomoges Porcelain Potamus Anarchy figures in black and red editions - a collaboration between Frank Kozik & K.Olin Tribu.

VIDEOA third domino video by Jared Lyon. This time interpreting the events in TRON through glowing dominoes.

IKEA LILLABO Toy vehicle

Dot to Date calendar by Dan Usiskin (London edition)

Vintage Edition Scrabble

Wooden Molecule Building Set!

dwellstudio puzzle - wooden stacked animals

Wooden Books by Kid O ~ Things that Go shown above, and there is also an Animal Homes book.

Nerf Star Wars Clone Wars Electronic Blaster - Clone Trooper

The ‘Hungry Animals’ ( aka the whale that ate the elephant which ate a hippo which ate a turtle which had eaten a bird ) is a stencil set and small puzzle.
A tiny story of big animals eating small animals, all in the shape of a toy.

Flensted Penguin Mobile!

Fourteen snow globes each exploring fourteen scenarios of the co-existence between Man and 'Nisse' (an elf-like creature appearing in Scandinavian folklores).

FEATUREDGift Guide: Fun toys for kids! (Little kids and BIG kids alike!)

PLAYSHAPES = GOOD design which encourages open creative play for children and.....adults.

L.A.-based Commonstudio (Greenaid seedbomb vending) is offering a unique holiday gift for all ages: A 10 pack of seedbombs (containing NATIVE seeds from your region) and a wooden slingshot for tactical intervention.

The NYtimes takes a look at baby tech. In modern times, babies are born into a world of waiting apps and gadgets.

In addition to cats, this Teepee is also be the perfect Christmas gift for all kinds of small furry friends like domestic rabbits, ferrets, and small dogs

FEATUREDNOTCOT Holiday Giveaway #1! Tegu! A chance to win two super sets of these magnetic wooden blocks, including a first look at the new Jungle Set!

To celebrate their album 3 Feet High and Rising, De La Soul teamed with Myong Kurily and Kidrobot to create this limited edition set of 3-inch figures.

FEATUREDNaef Tectus, a beautiful wooden desk toy in black and white created solely by applying the golden ratio. Full unboxing and up close look!

Beautiful, elegant sterling silver spinning tops from Reddish called simply spin.

PostCarden's Winter Wonderland design is a mini garden you can send in the post! It helps to liven up the predictable Christmas mail, transforming into a living green gift in a matter of days

LEGO release their Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 Kit as a realistic 1:17 scale version of the supercar with 741 pieces. It even has an opening trunk, doors and engine compartment, and the Spyder’s roof actually folds away.

FEATUREDTegu LIVE! Great interactive live stream where you can request their Master Builder to make designs with their magnetic wood blocks for you! They made me a castle with working draw bridge! Also fun packaging...

The sinister side of the benign family pet. We’ve printed his skeleton on top of its silhouette in a varnish of the same color. The skeleton won't show at night – so it’s not too scary when the lights are out. But during the day ... creepy fun.

Speech Buddies help children overcome speech problems much more rapidly by using the tongue’s sense of touch. The design is simple for kids, parents and speech therapists to use.

Meet Hugo the wild boar. A design collaboration between Monocle and Areaware. Cute but tough!

Toad Stools for kids!

Naef's wood collection ~ a collection of 21 different woods, great way for kids to learn about the different grains and colors.

Rocking Sheep that are comfortable to the touch by EMU.ENU

Noah Scalin at Skull-A-Day has discovered what's inside a jack-o'-lantern.

Dwell Studio Transportation Multi Mobile designed by frazier & wing

Love this! Puzzle Cookie Mould by Mizuguchi Nami.

A NY adman has an impressive collection of various vintage airline wings. And a lot of knowledge about airline advertising.

Bigshot Toyworks took Sun Bum's "Ape Face" logo and turned it into 16" tall vinyl figures and 2.5" keychains.

Andrew Bell dresses up some Androids for halloween! Power Vampire

Finger in the nose, stylish French clothing label for kids.

There are a lot of alternative varieties and designs of beds for your kids. Mimondo focuses on new and innovative thoughts concerning design, production and use of materials.

Little Sapling Toys ~ adorable wooden teethers ~ NOTCOT favorites? Little Submarine and Bronto!

Parapluesch - Stuffed Animals with Mental Disorders? Paranoid Gator, OCD Hippo, Multiple Personality Sheep/wolf, and more...

Tegu Magnetized Block MEGA Set - fun that they have a nice carrying case as well! Great for kids... or desk/coffee table toy!

FEATUREDThe Magnetic Clothing Trend ~ from baby clothes to lingerie... Would you for go those extra few seconds a day to swap clasps and buttons for magnets?

Jeff Soto's The Deek ~ looking amazing in black with those eyebrows and axe ~ launched at NYCC

Embrace by John Green - Works well with the kids!

Comotomo's egg shaped baby bottle won an iF Design award. Baby bottles just keep getting better looking (and more breast like).

Luke Chueh – ‘Blood & Fuzz’ 8” Dunny

Wooden toys workshop by DGPH in Sao Pablo. October 16 & 17 with Idea Fixa. Also, exhibition at Mini Gallery, Belo Horizonte on October 21st.

FEATUREDTrying out the Vosges Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookie Mix ~ with a cameo from the new Kidrobot 2tone Dunny Series ~ great packaging, fun copy, delicious cookies!

It must be love! Faber-Castell released a special edition box set for their 250th birthday in 2011.

Design Museum – Educational toy “Gifts”, tenth Selection by Giampiero Bosoni.

Super cute! The 'Morph Kid' chair created by Formstelle for Zeitraum.

These war planes for kids from NZ company Newbies doubles as fridge magnets. Multi-function design of kids toys.

FEATUREDI Am Plastic Too ~ by Kidrobot's Paul Budnitz ~ amazing coffee table book that is like the yearbook of amazing designer toys! So many NOTCOT friends and favorites featured ~ take a peek inside...

Photos of crayons in strange and wonderful situations taken by graphic designer Ryan Musselman.

STUDIO 13/16: the new area dedicated to adolescents and designed by Mathieu Lehanneur. The first images!

Skip Hop's new Dunck's ~ This adorable set of three colorful ducks float and pour - rinse cups and stackable toys!

Yum Yum London's adorable toy designs... so many awesome characters hopefully coming soon!

Inspired by 50's wallpaper and a love of Sputnik this new design created by Elizabeth Kelly was released today

FEATUREDSanrio x Mimobot = Badtz-Maru + Hangyodon USB toys ~ the final characters in the 6 Sanrio 50th anniversary collection

Orbit Baby releases their newest stroller accessory, the Sidekick Stroller Board. Older kids can now stroll with their younger sibling in skateboard fashion.

DoDo bassinet provides a safe, comfortable, warm and soft nest, facilitating the transition from the mother’s womb perfectly.

Pentax Optio cameras x Nanoblock.

For next winter BMW comes up with this big toy for kids from 3 to 5 years. The scaled down model of the BMW M3 GT2 is available as pedal car or with a small e-engine.

Adorable! Scion Racers S1 by Stage 3 Art Toys!

Adorable BBQ Grilling set for your little ones! Though the grill and accessories are made of plywood and MDF... so don't keep it too close to the real one!

Gorgeous NEW def•i•ni•tion series. Great for home, gallery, office,conference room, etc. Click for link and later visit seanlamoureux.com for more work and contact information.

Art for Baby - Board Book! All kinds of art turned black and white for babies... from murakami to malevich to hirst

Piggy is a set of two savings banks that nest together. The larger “momma” bank is for a child’s personal savings, and the smaller bank is for the child's charitable savings.

Pas a Pas from Ishac Betran is an educational tool for children that uses the principles of stop motion animation to teach math, physics and art.

Marc Jacobs launches a new line of school supplies to celebrate his new book store, called Book Marc. No, really, it's called that.

Retro-Recyclo : Storage cubes with a throwback ABC design made entirely from recycled cardboard.

The Emerson 1:18 Scale Doll House by Brinca Dada ~ is not only a modern masterpiece, but it has functioning solar panels on the roof while illuminate LED lights within!

An A to Z of London, brand new screen print by Laura Seaby.

Beautiful pencils made out of 100% recycled newspaper.

Scoot n Zoom - New Ride-On toy from Radio Flyer, beautiful shape inspires imaginative play, and the casters allow for motion in any direction.

'Chalk-it-to-me' Piggy Bank by L&G. Constructed from silky-smooth pigmented ceramic that allows it's body to be drawn on time and again.

Evan Chambers - Ray Gun! Handmade bronze and nickel ray gun

Tolix Girafe Blackboard Designed by Sébastien Cordoleani & Frank Fontana ~ love the wall lean and the orange, secretly wishing it was a whiteboard.

Tolix makes kids stuff! Tortue Toy Box in a stunning shade of green ~ and it has wheels!

OXO goes kids! Their bottle brush even has a nipple cleaner as well as an easy to wash, drainable stand

Oxo Mini Dishwasher Basket! With stretchy silicon sides ~ you can put all the random small objects going in the wash in it! (Sure its for baby accessories, etc ~ but so versatile!)

FEATUREDAreaware Animal Boxes by Karl Zahn - the eyes are the secret hinges to get to your stash... so cute! See the whole collection - rhino, bull, whale, and more!

Otyp is trying to get kids thinking creatively, about how to grow the next biofuel, cure a previously incurable disease, or discover new life forms. They designed a "Hello, World!" tutorial for biotechnology for free use in schools.

Jonathan Adler - Giraffe Sconce Facing Left

“Obsessions make my life worse and my work better” by Sagmeister Inc. Created completely with euro-cent coins.

Sina Gwosdzik and Jakob Dannenfeldt made this fantastic mobile for moustachio’d babies around the world.

New interactive portfolio for LA based Designer and Illustrator Richard Charlton.

Children of today are so lucky. Life is so much more fun than when we were kids. A great example is this Slide – Eat table by Studio Klass. You can climb to your seat to eat your lunch and then slide back to your toys. So Cool!

Contact lens cases original to Vision Direct ~ there are other varieties like elephants, fish and even purple hippos and googly eyes.

Nom Skulls ~ silicone cups... so you can totally bake cupcakes in them! Or fill them with whatever else you dream up...

Co Zen, Urushi cutlery made for kids!

FEATUREDFred's XYZ Blocks ~ adorable wooden alphabet blocks covered in illustrations by Christian Northeast!

Fluffy Co Eco Bird Mobile ~ gorgeous, woody, and casts great shadows.

Speesees! (Say it aloud and it makes more sense) The "friend" is "stuffed with lavender + lentils and has a buttery-soft organic sherpa covering. So cute and cuddly.

"Blocs Notes" is an sketch book for kids by french designer Joachim Jirou-Najou.

Small letterpress run {100} of a charming children's story, Under Cover by Jacque Lynn. A tiny boy lives inside the book and is constantly trying to escape the page boundaries.

Cool wooden-magnetic mosaic game at the MoMA store. Design patterns, learn sequencing, or create decorations and pictures.