Cedar Falls Snack Company Craft Beer Eats - beautiful packaging and i'm smitten with their Sugar Roasted Peanuts that are a candied treat with your beer!

Cumberland Cask Tennessee Straight Whiskey Ruby Cut is delicious! Just discovered it on our road trip - it is 6 year old TN whiskey aged in CA port wine barrels for 6 months. Limited run of 375 six pack cases.

The Surf Grooming kit Noir edition, The most sophisticated maintenance kit for your surfboard on the market!

PUNI Distillery has released the first Italian Single Malt Whisky. Bottle and Packaging Design by ZANZOTTI

Liquid Advent Calendar - that you'd keep in the fridge! 1 Trick Pony named, branded and designed the packaging for this limited-edition, holiday release from Taft's Ale House.

A limited ceramic bottling of Kraken Rum - designed by Stranger & Stranger!

Haeckels Perfumes have beautiful etched/cut out slide-top wooden boxes

Hobowood makes bent wood carabiners. Lovely packaging details. 17 layers of pressed wood veneers, molded and shaped by hand by Xabier Ferro.

Alpine Modern First Edition Sticker Pack - Features prints found in their Café in Boulder. The iconic hex moose, hex campfire, AM logo, Typographic Mountain and Mountain Icon.

FEATUREDTriggertrap - app and dongles to turn your phone into a controller for your camera! Timelapses made easy. Whistle, clap, apple watch and more to control your shutter! And the packaging is even better than you'd expect.

Stone & Sierra Nevada NXS IPA: A California collaboration blend of Dry-Hopped IPA and barrel aged IPA. Fantastic graphic for the collaboration!

No glue, plastic or nasty stuff… the super minimal & environmentally silent packaging for Ocean Collection protects the elegant men's cuff & embodies the ideology of the brand.

FEATUREDGlossier - a close up look at the Limited Edition Mask Duo and Phase 1 Set. The packaging and attention to detail is fantastic. Inspired by chocolate boxes they make it all look and feel so... special!

Designed by John Larigakis & Jon Mandell, Pig On Fire is a small batch hand crafted bourbon infused with applewood smoked bacon.

FEATUREDNOTCOT Gift Guide: Coffee Roaster Merch! Where delicious coffee meets beautifully designed graphics/merchandise ... there's so much! Ideas for your design loving coffee aficionado?

FEATUREDNOTCOT Packaging & Pampering Gift Guide 2015. Here's a collection of special holiday beauty sets for him/her that have lovely packaging - from beautiful illustrations to fun form factors and more.

Aesop's Holiday Maps of Light Gift Kits for 2015 are here! This year the packaging/graphics are themed around modern day constellations - and as usual, a lovely color palette.

De Auras Wheat Sour, the latest in Driftwood Brewery's "Bird of Prey" series of sour beers, features a peregrine falcon's unnerving sideways leer by Hired Guns Creative.

Play Art. Polygon Art. Do Art Yourself! PAPA Collection is a beautiful art objet for wall decoration. From Unicorn to Whale Tail and Bird designs!

Ring Stash, a thin engagement ring box, is the solution to keeping your marriage proposal a surprise!

FEATUREDWe let Bucky read through the Honest Kitchen "Is that my dinner" Holiday Scratch & Sniff Storybook for dogs!

"Is That My Dinner?" - The Honest Kitchen and Red Tettemer O'Connell + Partners make a free scratch and sniff book for your... DOG.

Stumptown Grand Cru Cold Brew - beautiful packaging for this exquisite new coffee from Stumptown Roasters - just in time for the holidays!

Ladolea Olive Oils from Greece care as much about their olive oil as their packaging. Inspired by the ancient Corinthian pot 'Aryballos' they come in a pot with both cork top and cork pourer.

Makers & Merchants - first spotted at Top Drawer, you can now buy it all! If only all food was as amazingly packaged as everything they make. The products are sourced, selected, made and crafted together.

Tipplesworth Traveling Cocktail Cases - everything you need to make Old Fashioneds, Apple and Elderflower Martinis, and Brambles in vintage styled suitcases.

Martin Azambuja designed these great cold pressed juice labels for Kaffe 1668 in NY.

New identity for the Wildlife Conservation Society by Pentagram's Michael Bierut and team. Love the stamps!

The studio NOIR VIF created - with the chocolate maker Jacques Bockel - the Petits carreaux de Paris, a chocolate with design inspired by the subway wall...

FEATUREDUnboxing the Teenage Engineering Pocket Operator (PO-12 rhythm) - it's even more beautiful, well designed, and fun in person... and the packaging! Brilliant!

See Canyon small batch hard apple cider made in the Central Coast of CA - stunning packaging for their Premium Dry Cider. Love the owl label! (Photo from our @NOTlabs instagram)

FEATUREDANA Samsonite Amenity Kits - these tiny Samsonite Cosmolite suitcases are the first class kits filled with Shiseido skincare and other basics. Adorable packaging and branding!

Found. Lost Pocket Gin. The packaging for this rare Tasmanian Gin invites the curious to explore its hidden details and to peer inside. Designed by Co Partnership.

Muzitee Tape Me t-shirt includes a code to get a lifetime access to free fresh music from indie artists. You will get your tee in a special 80's tape replica package with a sticker and a handwritten “thank you tape card”.

Etude House Sweet Idea Bunny Nail Polish sets - the packaging makes the pairs look like bunnies, and you can even paint on tiny bunny heads.

Sweet Revenge Sugar Co. a fine grain cane sugar alternative made from 100% Coconut Flower Nectar. Apparently you don't even need to adjust the recipe amounts. Also - fun name and branding.

French designer Adrien Cissé introduces the "Sardines" the fish-shaped wall decor inspire by Koinobori fish, designed for Auguste Renard.

Grenade is the ultimate thermoplastic paint refill for markers, designed and formulated in Italy by Clash. UV-resistant and buff proof!

An EP released as a circuit board that generates and plays music in real-time. From Norwegian artist Captain Credible, on the curiously creative label "Metronomicon Audio"

FEATUREDJollypop by MARCH. We found these lollipops displayed on sound dampening pyramid foam at Tent London... beautifully packaged and branded and looking delicious! Also smitten by their design philosophy.

FEATUREDPigro Felice's inflatable seals (both large and small) grabbed our attention at 100% Design London. Great branding, fun name (means lazy happy!), and their Modul'Air modular pool/lounge furniture is enticing.

A nautically inspired beard oil for modern beardsmen by Beard + Sea. The matte black design and oceanic fragrance are meant to contrast against all the wood scented "lumber-sexualized" beard products on the market.

Driftwood Brewing's new Raised By Wolves IPA pushes the limits of die-cutting beer label designs.

Beck's Scratchbottle by Coni Design is interactive and playful packaging that turned the whole bottle into an aluminum canvas. Embracing a party phenomenon: people like to scratch shapes into the characteristic aluminum neck of BECK'S bottles.

To celebrate Ugmonk's 7th Anniversary they designed this special limited edition set. Each tee is packaged in a special tin with letterpress label and includes a solid steel heptahedron.

MUMM 3D is a collector packaging designed by Renato Montagner for G.H.Mumm...

The Pencil Factory - Each "Nashville" box set comes with one carpenter, one bridge, one white wax, one no.2, one jumbo hex, and one jumbo round pencil. By Hester & Cook. Great packaging!

Iconic Nashville treat, Goo Goo Clusters, now come in adorable packs of Lil' Goos!

FEATUREDBulls Bay Saltworks - great sea monster/lighthouse icons for the branding of this sustainable, small batch, South Carolina sea salt company by inspiring couple, Rustin and Teresa Gooden. They even have margarita salt.

Gent's Gingerale "soft drinks made the hard way" - from Lexington, Kentucky - great branding! Check out the instagram to see more.

Seersucker Candy Co from Nashville's Olive & Sinclair. Seersuckers (soft sea salted dark choc ganache), Muzzle Loaders (salted bourbon caramel filled choc spheres) + Cherry Bombs (pickled cherry cordials) in old phonograph cylinder style packaging.

BottleLoft - great use of magnets to hang your beer from the top of the fridge instead of wasting shelf space. Great gif of holding a sixpack up and sliding the case off.

FEATUREDExploding Kittens (+ 30 and up NSFW deck) are here! The ridiculously successful Kickstartered card game from The Oatmeal, Elan Lee, and Shane Small has arrived - see the unboxing! (Complete with 'surprise thingie' in the packaging)

FEATUREDLaser cut interlocking wooden boxes - a new alternative to wood crates? And they can easily turn into coffee table or kid's play tables upon unboxing! Fun packaging from Front Runner Outfitters for their vehicle drawer systems.

Gobble by Form Maker. The chairs are strong enough to support the weight of an adult and the surfaces are water resistant. Sustainable innovation meets exciting fun!

Potbox - there really is a subscription box for everything. Lovely packaging!

Packaging for 5 gulden beer by Studio KQ.

Gillemore Magical Gin - love the matte black erlenmeyer flask with cork packaging

Goods & Services Flash Holiday Gift. Taking a cue from medicine-show claims of the past, a tongue-in-cheek wine label that touts the seasonal benefits of “Doctor Pauptit’s Wonderful Winter-Weather Warmer,” from curing frostbite to alleviating credit-card debt.

This t-shirt includes a code to get a lifetime access to free fresh music from indie artists. You will get your tee in a special 80's tape replica package with a sticker and a handwritten “thank you tape card”.

Devout Champagne - geometric packaging concept by Jessica Sjöstedt.

OBSCURITAS Dark Sour, from Driftwood Brewery Bird of Prey series, resting patiently in wooden shadows. Seldom seen, but respected by all life in the backyard, this elusive predator was never captured.

FEATUREDWhat happens when plants get legs? Research into some fun options... perhaps for a project to come...

VIDEORefil is launching 3d printer filament (ink) made from old car dashboards with an installation that shows how to make things right.

Hand-wrapped labels and custom boxes for Krampus and Nicholas (red and white) holiday wines.

Working with medical faculty at Chulalongkorn University, BBDO Proximity Thailand produced a black ink made from materials extracted from lungs donated after death by longtime smokers.

Handmade wooden suitcase from the crew at Great Depths. A premium merchandising unit made to display Percival's wondrous wares!

VIDEOSem Dono Beer is a collaboration between Bamberg Brewery and charity Adote um Focinho, created to encourage pet adoption.

Best of Baxter Box - Limited-edition case designed by Southern California artist and surfer Tyler Warren filled with the best of Baxter of California and a limited-edition candle collaboration with Surfrider, also designed by Warren.

Ogilvy Cape Town has an amazing "Induction Box" for new hires that comes in a red box... all based around David Ogilvy's short book The Eternal Pursuit of Unhappiness and his famous eight habits of highly creative communities.

News of the Wooled - adorable wool yarn (and accessories) sheep themed packaging design by Gwyn M. Lewis

Portfolio of Michael Bow - designer and art director working in Lodnon.

Munk Pack Oatmeal Fruit Squeezes on the go! Apple Quinoa Cinnamon, Blueberry Acai Flax, and Raspberry Coconut. Adorable logo and kid like packaging for all ages!

Minimal juice packaging for Owen + Alchemy in Chicago by Jack Muldowney & Potluck Creative.

Packaging design for Salvador Coffee by Co Partnership in Sydney, Australia. Bold and playful use of typography and color.

Black Market Gelato - i was pulled in by the black and white packaging, but they hooked me with how delicious (and stunningly fresh and pink!) the strawberry sorbet is. Also espresso is amazing.

Belching Beaver Brewery of San Diego - delicious beer and adorable beaver logo!

Hotel Chocolat Supermilk Facet Easter Egg - gorgeous shape and fun faceted packaging.

Every year in anticipation of spring, we send these eggsellent little packages to clients and friends hoping that recipients of the kits (or anyone else who’s game) will dye, design, decorate, and compete for the annually coveted prize of the Hatch SF Egg Contest.

GEMMY PRISMA FLOOR. design by Spalletta - Croce - Ragnisco - Wijffels. The diffuser in Lentiflex, thanks to the faceted shape, suggests a kaleidoscopic effect that multiplies the colored reflections offered by the techno polymer.

Agronauti Cosmetics - A family of vegan super heroes fights sun damages, urban pollution, heavy metals and protect skin against damages. All products are vegan, organic and their formulas are under the Creative Common 4.0 license

Cursor and Thread has a nice bow tie gift box designed by Ooco Design - love seeing the packaging design and iBox custom dies behind it all.

Typographic Chocolate by Lisa-Marie Peters and Christian Pannicke, University of Applied Sciences Berlin

"Not all flours are the same". Angelini Design accompanies Garofalo upon its entering the market of premium flour, with a packaging design in black that presents the characteristics and excellence of the new line.

Mathieu Triay's Little Black Classics for Penguin ebooks.

Baba Yaga - an new absinthe from Arbutus Distillery - has a bottle sleeve that reveals a wicked, toothy grin when it's removed.

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!

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.

FEATUREDSlingshot Yogurt Protein Drinks - interesting packaging with a ring of toasted oats, chia seeds, and almond bits around the neck of the bottle. Just pour them in and shake it up.

Neenah's 'Power of Paper' packaging promotion has 10 different printed samples including a scratch-n-sniff cookie box.

FEATUREDRumpl Beer Blankets! Mini puffer blankets for your beers are some of the most unique swag I've seen in a while - Rumpl was giving them away at Outdoor Retailer.

Tour de Fork - playful laser cut rings meet culinary deliciousness.

A gift set of chocolate bars made by Ocelot Chocolate. Awesome packaging and flavor combinations, plus they're all natural and organic.

Saana Hellsten’s packaging design of Basik, is a refreshing relief from the constant bombardment of products that are designed to skewer perceptions of gender and identity.

Tipsy tips on coasters from Spoolia Design. Each bit of advice has been hand lettered with love and letterpressed in silver foil.

FEATUREDBiolite - from the CampStove that doesn't need fuel and charges your devices, to the KettlePot it perfectly nests into, to the add on Portable Grill ... beyond their functionalities, the packaging and design details are beautifully minimal.

The Pop Up Art Book. Imagine the work of Angry Woebots, Jim Mahfood, Junko Mizuno, kozyndan, Skinner, and Tara McPherson popping up from the page in magnificent detail before your eyes?

Shwood and Widmer Brothers Brewing teamed up on a custom beer and sunglasses kit for the beer aficionado! Both the sunglasses and beer utilize Oregon oak for a truly Pacific Northwest flavor.

Babbo©, Concrete Christmas Decoration by PASTINA™

All Good has lovely packaging for Lemmy Lemonade, Gingeralla, and Karma Cola. Also check out the sparkling water bottles.

Triumph & Disaster Logo Tee comes packaged in this beautiful record sleeve.

Rogue Sriracha Hot Stout Beer

The second women's edition of Svbscription entitled "Escape".

Aesop always has a fun packaging theme for their holiday gift sets and 2014 is all about The Guild of Artisans - featuring materials on each label.

FEATUREDBreak Bar! It's what happens when Cool Hunting brings Dandelion Chocolate x Snarkitecture together. Limited to 500 pieces of small batch 70% chocolate made from Maya Mountain beans where 5 have a magic White Ticket inside...

Ursa Major Holiday Gifts are coming packed in the cutest hand-dyed, screen printed "Happy Trails" gift bags!

Bush Smarts Coffee Kit. A simple gift kit for brewing cowboy-style coffee in the backcountry. Beans included are roasted 3-5 days prior to shipping.

Helsinki Design Week turns 10 and celebrates with visual identity from Kokoro & Moi.

Soupure, Los Angeles. Soup cleanses are the new juice cleanse? (And then we're hearing broths are the new soup...)

Just Laid, playful packaging design by Springetts Brand Design Consultants.

Moscow-based designer Vlad Likh drew inspiration from the ever-changing Miami sky-scape for his latest packaging design of Miami Wines.

Designer Steve Wintercroft has created a series of brilliant 3d mask templates that can be easily assembled at home.

Greek creative team Mousegraphics implements a packaging design for Foodscross’s new line of thyme-based honey, and its a packaging that realizes the very synthesis of elements that typifies the honey.

FEATUREDUp close with Poligon's chemically etched magnetic metal sheet creatures that you fold together by hand at Designjuntion 2014. From elephants and gorillas to their latest line of insects!

VIDEOStefaan du Pont of MadebySDPNT gives new life to beautiful but broken camera lenses that have captured hundreds of thousands of memories.

Limited Edition 6th Anniversary Set from Ugmonk. Featuring solid brass dice, triblend tee, woven patch, and custom gold foil packaging. Made in the USA. Only 200 sets ever made.

FEATUREDHands on with the limited edition Nike Flyknit Puzzle Box by Ryan Gander in collaboration with The THING Quarterly. This wooden puzzle box is inspired by nature, flyknits, japanese puzzle boxes, and the Fibonacci sequence.

For A by Jose Gómez. A series of wooden A's in myriad of fonts.

Conceptual packaging for Beehive Honey Squares by Lacy Kuhn.

Eau Claire Distillery in Turner Valley is the first craft distillery in Alberta, Canada. Launched in March 2014, they have Three Point Vodka and Parlour Gin. My favorite part is the fun branding/packaging with victorian creatures of sorts!

Kenworth 50th Anniversary in New Zealand, with special centerpieces for the celebration dinner. Yep, rad, mini models of one of their trucks... x85 of them, hand built.

Fun visual identity for Barba by Negra Nigoevic and Filip Pomykalo.

Zupagrafika's modern packaging for jenga using the Poznan University of Economics' Collegium Altum tower.

Music translated from something we hear into something we can taste? Through programming, design, and just the right amount of absurdity, convert music into flavors - meatballs.

Nina Marie Cornelison's fun take on Hemingway's Old Man & the Sea.

Sticker campaign for the new Fast-Food Restaurant chain Grrrilla by Spritz Creative.

The Second Aid, a disaster kit from NOSIGNER and the Kohshin Trading company.

Slim paper sized water bottles, A4, A5 and letter sized, by Memobottle.

Plants of Gods, a beautiful figurative terrarium by Hong Kong designer Prodip Leung.

Méduse genre -Jellyfish Wine.

Eden's Paper - wrapping paper you can plant instead of trash... with built in seeds, you can grow superfoods, flowers, and more!

Le Parcel announces their 2015 packaging system. Tampons, chocolate truffles & a gift shipped monthly to your door. That time of the month has never looked so good.

Incase Action Camera Collection for GoPro! It will feature TensaerLite protection technology.

Sand packaging by alien and monkey, sand-made packaging re-establishes ritual of discovering a gift and the concept of sustainable packaging.

Grady's Cold Brew now has Bean Bags! The bags are filled with ground coffee beans, chicory, and spices—that you soak overnight in water for cold brew coffee!

Rutherford Chang owns over 1000 copies of The Beatles' White Album. His 'store' We Buy White Albums presents the records and allows visitors to examine the decades of marks, doodles and damage that have affected the album's minimalist cover.

Cava Blossom Brut bottle design, turning the gift of giving upside down. By Packlab.

USPS (The US Postal Service) finally gets a facelift from Grand Army. Can't wait to see it in real life...

Goldfish bubble wrap, from Kaboomi Studio.

Aunt Fannie’s FlyPunch! is scientifically engineered to attract and kill fruit flies. Sure you could also use wine/vinegar/etc - but the fun branding and simplicity of instructions is quite nice.

Beggin' Party Poppers Dog Treats - adorably smart packaging - pop a treat on the pigs nose, press it in, and out it pops!

Reebok does BACON. Apparently appealing to the paelo diet crossfitters...

Nike FuelBox Vending Machine has popped up in NYC - and you can buy goods with your fuel points from the current day!

Sel Magique - beautiful branding and packaging for this line of gourmet fleur de sel herbs de provence.