VIDEO"For All You Love" 2019 Subaru Forester Advert - interesting to see the way they have the dog lead you back through time through a path of objects...

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...

Boba without the plastic straws? LAist looks at how local shops are adapting with corn based straws, paper straws, metal straws (with pipe cleaners) and even custom made boracylicate (Pyrex) glass straws!

Good Ship IKEA by Mother London is a life sized version of the IKEA SMÅKRYP bath boat that can clean up 20kgs of trash from the waterways! The public is currently invited to remote control them in Deptford Creek, east London.

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.

One Love Foundation's Love Better Chocolates taste like the emotions of healthy and unhealthy relationships. Flavors include: Manipulation, Jealousy, Respect, Independence and more...

Lampa Fotosyntes by Sofia Ljung & Elia Anis. Such a lovely concept where the solar grow light can be moved to shift the growth of the plants!

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.

Coq en Pâte - animal illustration themed kids line from France. Fun, playful front and backs of animals on each outfit.

Disintegrating X (Lamborghini Miura SV 1972) by Fabian Oefner for M.A.D. Gallery. Stunning photographic art prints of the exploding Lamborghini will be available in 2 sizes of limited edition prints.

Wee Gallery Baby Swaddle Blankets have such cute, playful packaging creatures! Bunnies and Splatter patterns are so tempting. Also take a look at the 'freebies' section for fun Valentine's Candy Hugger Cards and more you can print out.

VIDEOEtherborn Announcement trailer. A video game inspired by classic masters such as M.C. Escher, Piet Mondrian, Chillida, and more.

Cam Cam Copenhagen Hot Air Balloon Lamps. Lampshade made of 100% cotton textile.

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

Mara Mea multipurpose Stroller Net Bags are inspired by classic french market bags in an array of vibrant colors. It attaches to the stroller with velcro straps.

Vas Kurbits Rosa by Sofie Johansson & Jessica Westerberg - lovely single stem flower vases

Titlee Paris Brass Lapel Pins with adorable creatures from hugging elephants, to dinos, puffers, bears, octopi, lobsters, foxes and more!

New York Times Map of Every Building in America, and Map of Every Building in Your City (LA, NYC, SF, Boston, Dallas)

NOTCOT Recommended Reading: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff

New York Times Truth Tote Bag by Everybody.World - made of 100% bull denim cotton featuring the NYTimes "The Truth is Hard" campaign we love at NOTCOT.

"When Basketball Inspires" runs Feb 8-10, 2019 in Paris. Stunning art exhibition by Trajectoire Studio featuring 30 artists. Particularly loving "Wireframe" by Town and Concrete.

Anker USB-C Power Strip has 2 Outlets, 2 USB-A, and 1 USB-C. It's a 4" power puck perfect for our couch, especially since the USB-C allows for super charging my iPhone (~1%/min!), also great for travel.

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

VIDEORaspberry Pi has opened it's first retail store in the Grand Arcade in Cambridge, UK. Peek inside with the video.

Gizmodo 'Goodbye Big Five' article series is such a fascinating read! "Reporter Kashmir Hill spent six weeks blocking Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple from getting my money, data, and attention, using a custom-built VPN."

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!

IKEA Klappa Baby Toy Collection of rattles, blankets, playmats and more.

Dawid Planeta's imaginary animals are beautifully eerie.

Byrne's Euclid Poster - a colorful detailed poster of every geometric illustration from Oliver Byrne’s colorful 1847 edition of Euclid’s Elements.

Arc'teryx Granville 10 or 16 Courier Bag - Highly water resistant AC² fabric has critical seams taped for weather protection. The 10 fits a 12" max laptop, the 16 fits a 15" max laptop.

Ross Snow Tech (RST) Convert - The world’s first and only snowboard binding that directly “converts” into a snowshoe - and it converts in 30 seconds or less!

VIDEORodrigo y Gabriela - Echoes (Pink Floyd cover!) from the upcoming album Mettavolution released 26th April 2019.

USPS Military Working Dogs Stamps - designed by Greg Breeding with artwork by DKNG Studios featuring a German shepherd, Labrador retriever, Belgian Malinois and Dutch shepherd.

The Sp!n Spinning Top designed by Kutarq for +d creates an optical illusion of levitation. When spinning the top, an exclamation mark appears. 'Sp!n' is available in 5 colors and spins for more than a minute.

Loop from Terracycle - interesting collaboration with a bunch of big brands for a reusable, refillable packaging service. Intrigued to see the packaging solutions, but buying packaging you love, and refill packs would be more cost effective and delightful?

VIDEOA Coke Is A Coke - lovely new animated ad inspired by Andy Warhol from Wieden+Kennedy Portland for Coca-Cola. (Love the illustrations - especially bigfoot!)

Heinz Ketchup Caviar! Ketchup gets the molecular gastronomy treatment. They are giving away 150 limited edition jars for Valentine's Day.

Rimowa Aluminium Groove Case for iPhone XS/XS Max/XR - lightweight, slim case is made from aluminium and shockproof TPU

Spotify Cosmic Playlists - basically monthly musical horoscopes! (And for some reason the horoscopes are far lengthier on mobile than desktop)

Volvo Living Seawall - made of tiles designed to mimic the root structure of mangrove trees this seawall turns into a viable marine habitat that attract filter-feeding organisms. Fifty have been installed in Sydney Harbour to combat urbanisation and pollution.

Shepard Fairey's Studio Number One has some great new posters and shareable art in their free downloads section - including some new Women's March 2019 (this sat!) ones!

Project Alias by Bjørn Karmann + Tore Knudsen is a 3D printed open source “parasite” that gives you more privacy from Alexa and Google Assistant. Alias speakers feed white noise for privacy, and allow commands thru with a new code word.

FREIFRAU Leya Rocking Wingback Chair and Rocking Lounge Chair designed by Birgit Hoffmann and Christoph Kahleyss look lusciously loungey (and would make a perfect modern cozy leather nursery chair that doesn't scream baby)

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VIDEOIsland by Max Mörtl & Robert Löbel is an adorable stop motion & 2D animated short sharing how "On a small island a bunch of exotic creatures run across each other."

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.)

bbhugme pregnancy pillow designed by Norwegian pre/post-natal chiropractors. It's multipurpose (full body, arm/back rest, rest ON your belly, nursing, newborn hangout) and adjustable (slide the silicone pebbles to adjust density and double as teethers)

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...