First recycling plastics and finally... recycled silicone! Oiko Design Office and Lékué are now able to incorporate up to 50% post-consumer silicone in the creation of new products.

PLAYSEAT TROPHY LOGITECH G EDITION - interesting angles on this new gaming racing seat design

Snakes of Wrath - A tile laying strategy game. I can't tell if i love the game, or if the photography, videos, packaging, and product design have just grabbed (and held) my attention.

NOT Wieden+Kennedy - seriously, how could i not love the new branding and design studio to launch out of their london office? And their NOT Machine is too fun and ridiculous too.

The Standard and NYC design practice Jumbo have reinvented "pool noodles" as giant inflatable macaroni, farfalle, shells, rigatoni, lasagna, tortellini, and ravioli! And they are packaged to look like pasta boxes.

MyMode by Tracy Anderson... ignoring the overly eco mood board vibes and price tag and the wooden box... interesting product design for this woody work out system... look at those ball joints?

Phaidon 1000 Design Classics comes out in October 2022 - a revised version of the iconic massive yellow 3 volume set.

Keith McMillen QuNeo MPE MIDI Finger Drum Controller and QuNexus MPE MIDI-CV Mini Keyboard Controller with no moving parts! Beautiful product design language flowing through these playful interfaces.

Been impressed with the packaging design (and function) of these continuous mist sprayers from Proctor & Gamble for Dawn Powerwash and Mr. Clean Clean Freak.

Advent Calendars! That fun mix of elaborate packaging and graphic design to house tiny surprises... Food52 has a particularly good selection this year. Seen here - La Maison du Chocolat, Lady M, Maison Boissier, and Chapon.

Dyson Supersonic Hairdryer Flyaway attachment - fascinating hook design to blow hair such that it lifts longer hairs and hides fly aways below!

Eliqs Mother's Day Beer and Rosé offerings - the packaging is everything! And for the ultimate gift, Mother's Day Garden Party lets you "add a photo and custom text to our design to surprise Mom with the drink she deserves."

Orvis Pro Dog Waders! (My favorite 2021 April Fool's design yet)

VIDEO"A Tale of Two Slings: Peak Design and Amazon Basics" Is brilliantly funny, and highlights a growing issue of Amazon knock offs... and don't forget, you (usually) get what you pay for.

Mophie Powerstation All-In-One contains a 8,000mAh wireless portable battery with built-in Apple Watch charger. Nice design detail where the watch magnetic charger flips out.

San Diego Design Week! September 9-13, this is the first of hopefully many to come!

Halfway between art and design, OOO My Design Studio presents Nomino Post. It’s a peg board storage system, which allows different compositions on the board and countless configurations to organize an decorate your home with a flare of optical art.

Plastique Fantastique iSphere might be the most amusing DIY face shield/mask design yet.

Lily & River Little Climber Pikler Triangle and Slide/Rock wall, for crawlers to 5 year olds. Impressed with the quality and details of this design (see vid at the bottom for a peek in their factory.) This has been a game changer for our NOToddler!

The House Industries Lettering Manual just launched - "House’s Chief Lettering Officer, Ken Barber, reveals the secrets for creating virtually any letter style in nearly every design scenario imaginable."

EVERYMASK by Roo Williams is a unique DIY mask design that uses a custom harness to tightly fit a sheet of filter material to a person's face. It follows NASA's ISRU principles, using common household tools/materials.

Design Observer: The Self-Reliance Project by Jessica Helfand is a daily essay column about what it means to be a maker during a pandemic. It's just the daily dose of calm, thought provoking inspiration I need these days.

MIT Project Manus COVID-19 Face Shield is a single-piece design that comes flat and can be assembled into a 3-dimensional face shield. Ideally die cut (but could be laser cut on demand too.)

Foster + Partners prototype design for a Reusable Face Visor. All parts are laser cut - the 0.5mm optically clear PETG, an interlocking soft PP headband, and a surgical silicone rubber head strap. It is designed to be easily sterilized and reused.

Dyson CoVent Ventilator being produced in coordination with The Technology Partnership (TTP). FastCo has a look at the design.

The Free Sewing Fu Face Mask Pattern is the cleanest design i've found aesthetically. (While there are many arguments on materials, styles, effectiveness, etc of DIY masks currently, I found this to be a noteworthy template to explore/tweak!)

Koll Guitars High Rise Pedal - The High-Rise was designed by Saul Koll and Portland effects maestro Jack Deville, with graphic design by Aaron Draplin. The knobs were custom designed by Saul and cast by Matt Haramis.

IKEA x Pizza Hut Säva table - on surprising collaborations, IKEA Hong Kong has created a limited edition table that is a giant version of those tiny "pizza savers" that come in pizza boxes.

"For Decades, Cartographers Have Been Hiding Covert Illustrations Inside of Switzerland’s Official Maps" on AIGA Eye on Design by Zoey Poll - amazing!

Rollis Toy Cars - adorable design with their drivers packed right in.

The Story Planter designed by Afteroom for Design Within Reach is so lovely! Available in black and white, 5 and 9 piece and pairs so well with their iconic Story Bookcase stack!

Caña Magazine's "2019’S BEST CRAFT BEER ARTWORK" - As label art became the new record sleeve, craft beer aesthetics scaled new heights in 2019; for pop pickers with an eye for design, here's a countdown of the year in beer art.

The State of UX in 2020 - From designing for the post-truth era to the rise of micro-communities, design as a team sport, invisible design systems, and more...

Urchin is a ceramic lemon squeezer with a striking design and a unique way of juicing that makes each time using it a joy. Urchin will be handcrafted in The Netherlands.

BWArchitects sets the stage for Vanity Fair's New Establishment Summit in LA. The featured design element is the BMW Vision pavilion, showcasing the M NEXT electric car in style.

Do the F*cking Work: Lowbrow Advice for High-Level Creativity by Brian Buirge and Jason Bacher - from the folks behind Good F*cking Design Advice (with some of our favorite prints!) comes a BOOK!

Bookniture's Wisdom Tree is a way to display your current reads and the front loading design lets you quickly access the page where you left off.

Target : 20 Years of Design for All: How Target Revolutionized Accessible Design - THE BOOK! Along with the new capsule collection coming out to celebrate Target's 20 years of design collabs, there's a Rizzoli book!

Maledetto Design (Damned Design) by Alessandra Coppa - Domus has a peek into this new book which "examines design in an ironic and intelligent manner, from the point of view of its most important players."

OTOTO Design's Summer 2019 Collection just launched - lots of fun, playful designs for your home and kitchen. The Magic Mushroom funnel and Blade Rhino Knife Sharpener caught my eye.

Besito - new marijuana vape. Fun hexagonal packaging and product design.

Munchkin Sit & Soak Infant Bath Tub [NOTCOT recommended!] So many great design details - butt bump to keep even newborns upright, smart drain plug, handle/hanger, comfy padding and more. (Like a better Shnuggle)

100% Soft limited edition DUMPSTER FIRE resin toy dropping at SDCC 2019! (Based on their enamel pin design.)

Nuna x PBK Leaf Grow Baby Bouncer - We love this Red Dot award winning bouncer for its silent (motorless) swing action, modern design, three tilt settings and evolution into a toddler lounge chair... the Pottery Barn edition has the best colors!

Bonsai Room Diffusers designed By Takafumi Nemoto for Design House Stockholm in Breeze, Blossom, and Cloud. Each comes with a ceramic vase, natural rattan fragrance diffuser and scented oil.

Playdate is a new handheld gaming device/platform from Panic and Teenage Engineering! With that combo, you know the software, hardware, and design details will be even better in person! 4 years in the making, complete with a CRANK!

Charmin "Forever Rolls" are 12" diameter toilet paper rolls that look like absurd design objects in your bathroom with the freestanding holder. (The reviews and customer photos are worth a look... and i just ordered one for the guest bathroom)

Jägermeister COOLPACK - an ice pack inspired new bottle design - stackable, compact, and portable.

Mooki Mello Posse Stool! Saddle shaped stools made of recycled paper pulp that is "light enough for kids to carry around but strong enough for a 220 lb adult to sit on it." They are the official chair of NYC Design Pavilion in Times Square for NYC Design Week 2019.

BUGA Wood Pavilion and BUGA Fibre Pavilion at the Summer Island of the Bundesgartenschau by the University of Stuttgart Institute for Computational Design and Construction (ICD) and Institute for Building Structures and Structural Design (ITKE).

Well Beings CBD Inhaler - unique design for this custom inhaler

Octopus Rum branding/packaging concept design by Pavla Chuykina. Melted wax drips into tentacles...

Blueland - cleaning system of reusable spray bottles and tablets (just add water!) Nice packaging design and concept, but curious how well it really cleans. They are starting with Bathroom, Multi-surface, and Glass cleaners, with plans to further expand.

Leander Changing Matty - of all the baby changing mats we researched, we're most impressed with the design and quality of the Matty! (Also, no need to air out the foam smells like Keekaroo/Bumbo options and feels far better.)

Sleeping Piles installation by Estudio Campana and Apex Brasil for Interni's Human Spaces - Milan Design Week 2019. These grassy conical structures pull you in to relax...

RoBOTL - Timberland partners with Giò Forma for this massive 6m tall installation made of recycled plastic bottles in Piazza XXV Aprile for Milan Design Week 2019. (Inspired by ReBOTL, Timberland’s new footwear collection)

Bauhaus 100 Poster by re:design studio celebrates 100 years of the Bauhaus school through illustrations of its iconic designs

Panorama - Interesting hard shell roof top tent design by Jan Loss and Lukas von Rantzau on Kickstarter. What's really most striking are the images of it on that cherry red vintage Mercedes station wagon!

Parachute Coffee - great packaging design by Korefe

Prometheus Design Werx pair of SPD Kraken DIY + All Terrain Enamelware Mugs 16oz featuring the fun tool wielding octopus we love!

John Maeda's Design In Tech Report 2019 - read it!

Giantsuper kids products by Paul Lee Design - Beautiful illustrations and smart designs. Especially the Construct-O-Cards Tummy Time Flash Cards and Tummy Time Playboard + Art Cards (that can pop up with magnets) and have mirrored surfaces.

Move Airline Seat Concept for Airbus designed by Layer Design. A dreamy futuristic air travel concept with so many lovely details, from the materials, to the back of seat table design, to the colors and more...

Stokke Flexi Bath - interesting design for a collapsible baby bath tub (that you could easily use for everyday things!) with a unique, color changing, temperature sensitive stopper.

Front Design Curve lights for Zero. From the small but heavy base springs the lamp like a sprouting plant or mushroom. The collection now contains pendants, floor and table lamps in green or white glass or with metal shades in blue, ivory, white or green.

Bleu Carmin Design Collection Animo Lights - Toucan, Dragon, Parrot, and Mouse in bold, colorful powder coated sheet metal.

ODLO Spring/Summer '19 Women's Activewear Collection – By Zaha Hadid Design.

National Park - that iconic National Park Service signage look was actually created by the size of the router bit used to make the signs... and it's been turned into a typeface (in 4 weights) by The Design Outside (DO) Studio!

2019 is the beginning of the end of Design*Sponge! And i'm sad and excited to see what they have up their sleeve to go out with a bang! (Especially as i'm still grappling with what the future of NOTCOT will hold... ideas? let's talk.)

Absorbed By Light sculpture by Design Bridge's Gali May Lucas for the 2018 Amsterdam Light Festival. Perfectly highlighting our screen obsessions, while becoming the perfect instagram photo spot too...

Vornado Glide Heat Whole Room Heater - adorable design with round body and metal & wood wide stance base. Almost looks like it's ready to crawl away.

Prometheus Design Werx: The SPD Edition Titanium Tool Bit Driver by Audacious Concept of Finland. Beautiful titanium billet hex bit driver comes with 6 torx bits, 3D Printed Integrated ABS Bit Holder, and SPD Kraken Laser Mark on Ball.

Prometheus Design Werx - a NOTCOT favorite for great quality, design, and ethos.

Sall Whiskey is making SYVSINDGIN, a Gin White, while waiting for the whiskey to age. Design by NO HEROES.

The Center for American Politics and Design (CAPD) has created a searchable collection of every campaign logo from the 2018 election for US Congress. The archive is a tool to explore trends and typologies that reveal themselves only when viewed in aggregate.

FEATUREDToday, NOTCOT is retiring NotCouture (est 2007), Liqurious (est 2008), Tasteologie (est 2010) + NotVentures (est 2010) to refocus on design. it's been a fun adventure, but all experiments eventually come to an end...

Cinsa Cocinova by Joel Escalona. With more than 80 years of experience and recognized as the number one in the Mexican kitchen industry, Cinsa asked Escalona to re-design the usual blue pewter pot present in every corner of Mexico.

Matter Design Megaphones for the New York Philharmonic. 20 custom robotically printed megaphones focus acoustic energy into hyper-directional streams.

Design Legend David Carson and artist Thijs Biersteker created a brainwave controlled globe showing us that if we lose focus on climate change the world goes to shit.

Exhibited during the 2018 London Design Biennale, “Matter to Matter” interactive installation by Arthur Analts invites visitors to leave their own message or print on a large glass wall of condensation.

Where Are My Glasses? by Ron Arad for VENINI at Vessel Gallery - London Design Week 2018. Lovely mix of eyewear infused glass sculptures!

Urban Hives by Nathalie Harb at Beirut Design Week proposes to reintroduce the garden in parking lots. The proposed car-sized lightweight structure, raised above the car, is a lifted garden characterized by urban farming and beehives.

Design for Children: Play, Ride, Learn, Eat, Create, Sit, Sleep book by Kimberlie Birks coming from Phaidon in Oct 2018.

Playge X Prometheus Design Werx Stealth Sqube Embroidered Patch (with velcro back) by Ferg!

Orbit light turns full circle to mimic the beautiful movement of the galaxy's moons around their planets by Jesse Ede Collectible Design

A 20 feet long concrete top conference table with steel I-Beam frame, set on 5 concrete footings. Designed and fabricated by Designs by Rudy, Chicago based concrete furniture design studio.

Personal Sanctuary is a collaboration between JOEL ESCALONA STUDIO, German Velasco Arquitectos and Formica de Mexico for Glocal Design Magazine.

For Sagmeister & Walsh’s current exhibition in Israel, Process Studio from Vienna created an interactive app that turns a webcam stream into a real-time Jewish Museum illustration.

Joel Simon Evolving Floorplans - what if you used a genetic algorithm with the creative goal to approach floor plan design solely from the perspective of optimization and without regard for convention, constructability, etc?

Prometheus Design Werx CaB-2 Multicam Black Special Edition Tote Bag! Fits a paper grocery bag and has both short handles and shoulder straps.

Sebastian Maluska Nest Tent - a lightweight pop-top roof top tent inspired by sailing materials. The ladder is stored in a fabric pocket under the sleeping surface.

GOREN is a wheat installation presented as part of the Jerusalem Design Week 2018. The project display a selection of genetically diverse varieties of wheat - all on the brink of extinction - having been replaced throughout the 20th century.

The Design of Childhood by Alexandra Lange - "From building blocks to city blocks, an eye-opening exploration of how children's playthings and physical surroundings affect their development." (And the Free Universal Construction Kit is on page 67!)

Gunner Dog Kennels. The only 5 Star Crash Test Rated travel crate according to the Center For Pet Safety. So many interesting, thoughtful, design details. (They seem like the YETI of kennels.)

A look at the design by Tandem Design NYC for Ocasio-Cortez's big win. FastCo Design "How the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez campaign got its powerful design"

H&M is launching furniture and lighting? Happy Interior Design Blog has a peek!

Flexzilla Garden Hose with SwivelGrip. NOTCOT Recommended! Having been through so many hoses over the years, finally found this one to work the best (and great design details too!)

Arc'teryx Rolling Duffles - nice design details and exterior frame.

The Steel & Porcelain line from CONFLUENCE DESIGN combines welded steel with slipcast porcelain to create minimalist furniture with refined material combination.

Brian Paul Design, aka @thepottist - Ceramic vessels created with nature in mind. Shape, texture, color and plant become one. The desire is to look as though the plant could have grown FROM the pot itself.

Prometheus Design Werx - SPD DIY Kraken Morale Patch

Poppin Sticky Memo Ball - a dodecahedron of sticky notes designed in partnership with Afifi Ishak for Metaproject, a student industrial design competition sponsored by Poppin with Rochester Institute of Technology

WAYNE WaterBUG Submersible Pump with Multi-Flo Technology. Just discovered this because of a flooded basement... and not only is it effective, the design has so many great details. From the simplicity and ease of use, to the smart storage setup.

FEATUREDMilan Design Week 2018 inspiration experienced vicariously through instagram...

Kristen Meyer of Salvage Design creates precisely laid out photos will make your head spin...

Kodai Iwamoto Design EX-PORTATION 2018 at Ventura Future. Stunning "Plastic Blowing Project" heats and blows PVC pipes like glass into vases!

Table Zoo by RONG. Adorable bird pencil holder, hedgehog pushpin holder and my favorite - the frog tape dispenser!

Disco Gufram coming to Milan Design Week 2018.

Leesa Hybrid Pillow - interesting design with a down-like quilted pocket side and a cooling side, as well as a pillow insert in the center that can be removed.

Stockholm Design Week 2018 Highlights Gallery from Chicken Scrawlings

Ardoma Design - OVA Lights. Made of concrete and a steel cage.

Patricia Urquiola Renovates Cassina’s HQ to Celebrate 90th Anniversary - the green wall is stunning!

Jungle Spoon designed by Elinor Portnoy for OTOTO Design bringing love of Monstera into the kitchen.

Octo Citrus Reamer designed by Almond Studio for OTOTO Design. Almond Studio won first place in the Korea Design Challenge 2017 with this design.

"The rebrand for Russia’s tourist board uses Suprematist geometry laid out as a map" on It's Nice That. The core graphic is a stylised map of Russia, each shape representing points and territories around the country in block colours.

deVOL: Bespoke Kitchens, Bathrooms and Interiors. Gorgeous inspiration from this British design led furniture manufacturer based at Cotes Mill, a historic 16th century water mill on the banks of the River Soar, just outside Loughborough.

Meltz Chocolate Packaging Design by Foxtrot Studio

FastCo Design "The 10 Design Trends Of 2017 That Need To Die: Do better in 2018–do away with these design crimes."

Identity: Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv showcases a body of work spanning 60 years from the seminal New York design firm founded in 1957 by Ivan Chermayeff and Tom Geismar. Published by Standards Manual.

FEATUREDUnboxing the YETI Loadout Bucket with Lid + Caddy. It's more amazing than i imagined... from product and packaging down to the surprising design details!

VIDEORusty Squid, a studio for robotic art and design, reveal their unique robotic design process which takes them back to first principles in a short 4-minute film: How We Build a Robot

Olika Birdie Hand Sanitizer. Cute simple bird design for this 2-in-1 hand sanitizer containing 20mL of spray and 10 dry textures wipes.

Good read on Design*Sponge "How to Change Your Business When You’re Already Established" by Rebekah Carey. Tackling that moment of realization that it's ok to walk away from something successful, especially if it's tearing you apart.

Designer Pie is the next food trend? Interesting read at GrubStreet "High-Design Pie Is Instagram Food We Actually Love" highlights the instagram pies of @lokokitchen.

ED045 lamp by Edizioni Design. Chandelier with brass structure and frosted light tubes.

Cinnamon Projects Circa Mineral Incense Burner. Elegantly simple design with a semi-precious stone cylinder perfectly resting in a solid brass plate.

"Mike & Maaike — A Retrospective on Cultivating Industrial Design at Google." An insightful read on what 4.5 years of industrial design inside Google was like... and spoiler, they are back to Mike & Maaike, the independent studio!

Playge Ti Skall Lanyard Bead - a great collab from Prometheus Design Werx X Ferg! Clay Ferguson's great take on the skull as a titanium lanyard bead.

London-based branding agency Together Design has launched their 4th annual Christmas collection, ’This & That’'. This year's collection is themed around perfect pairings.

ODO project is a pedestal table / side table in powder-coated steel and solid ash. It takes its name from the anthropological term "Odonata" meaning common dragonfly.

PA Design Olympiad trio of wooden Spinning Tops

The Design Files has gorgeous photos of this Eco House in Western Australia of Tanya McKenna, Peter Chadwick and Henri the boxer. The greens they chose (paired with the whites and wood and plants) are just stunning.

M.1 is the first product by JLA Sound Systems. It's a side table and a high fidelity wireless sound system.

Gerber BabyNes - the nespresso/keurig of baby formula? Interesting machine design, as well as a to-go pod opener.

Vehicle Design: Aesthetic Principles in Transportation Design by Jordan Meadows. As a key member of the Mustang design team (and much more), Jordan shares the methods and processes designers use to create and develop stunning cars!

Create-Zine is an independent publication created to showcase some of the best talent in global illustration, printmaking, art, graphic design, craft, typography and art direction.

FastCo Design "Dead-End UX: The Big Problem That Facebook, Twitter, And Others Need To Solve" by Cliff Kuang is a fascinating read. What he describes is something i've certainly encountered regularly... let's get out of Dreary Valley! And press reset!

The Modest Matter Lander Planter - Porcelain and hard wood, self watering planter. Handmade in Santa Cruz California. Bringing life to living and work spaces in a simple, modern design.

TAIT Design Co. Perpetual Wall Calendar

The Perfect Match by Leo Burnett Design Canada - Inside The Perfect Match box are four matchstick lengths with different coloured heads.

design(human)design - helps you generate ideas of things to create (May you not get this desperate!) There is also a physical card based version. This project comes from the MIT Media Lab: Object-Based Media Group.

Interesting read on the future of design from FastCoDesign - "9 Ideas Shaping The Future Of Design, According To Ideo, Microsoft, Autodesk, MIT, And More"

ED046 lamp by Edizioni Design. Suspension lamp made by a brass circular tube and a led tube light.

Singer Reimagined Track 1 Chronograph - a collaboration between Rob Dickinson, the founder of Singer Vehicle Design, and watch designer Marco Borraccino.