FEATUREDNOTCOT Holiday Giveaway #29: Kidrobot a 24” Yummy Pizza Plush, a 9” Pink Edition Cupcake Plush, a 13” Ice Cream Sandwich Plush, a 12” Brown Edition Donut Plush, Dessert Keychains, and Donut Pulls.

Churro Borough - churro ice cream sandwiches now in Los Feliz, Los Angeles!

FEATUREDMaking our own tooth-tingling icecream with Bompas & Parr and Colgate. Possibly the first ever buzz button, xylitol, malic acid and mint ice cream!

The Churro Borough Pop-Up at Mexicali Taco & Co. in LA - Churro Ice Cream Sandwiches?!?! Filed with Vanilla Custard, Horchata and Peach Cobbler ice cream...

HVIIDs Italian Ice Cream/Popsicles just opened in Copenhagen and Normann Copenhagen gives us a peek at the deliciousness within!

Adorable packaging by Eric Timmerman for Amy's Icecream.

FEATUREDThis week’s roundup from Tasteologie and Liqurious includes Star Wars Thai Tea Ice Cream Sandwiches, Butterbeer jelly shots and Sriracha Rooster Sauce Lollipops!

The Icecream Parlour by Central Saint Martins student Ploenpit Nittaramorn is a back-to-basics process for making ice cream, which seeks to question why we rely so much on machine-made produce.

FEATUREDGenuine Father's Office Quality & Style IPA Beer Floats! and buttermilk ice cream sandwiches! Father's Office, the Los Angeles craft beer and burger Mecca, just added dessert to the menu. We try them firsthand...

FEATUREDSneak preview into the deliciousness that will be the LA Street Food Fest! From NaanStop, to Picca bites, to Hendrick's Cocktail, to Beachy Cream ice cream sandwiches and more!

Londoners can celebrate national ice cream week with an icecream from the amphibious HMS Flake 99 commissioned by Fredericks ice cream.

FEATUREDCool Haus Ice Cream Truck ~ who knew ice cream sandwiches could be architectural! With architect puns, edible paper wrapper, bacon ice cream and more...

FEATUREDThe Icecreamists' The Infamous Sex Pistol Ice Cream ~ a shot of absinthe served from an iv drip... over an ice cream cocktail of viagra level energy...

Ice cream in all shapes, flavours and sizes by thai ice cream designer, Prima Chakrabandhu Na Ayudhya from Bangkok.

Sandwich Bench by Goncalo Campos

Dayglow Art Studio stained glass made by Dayna M Anderson in Savannah, Georgia. Lovely bubbles, ice cream cones, and power + peace BLM pieces.

Weleda expands their super popular Skin Food (a NOTCOT fave) into a line of products - from the original cream, to a light version, body butter, and lip butter.

"A Second Look at the Tuna Sandwich’s All-American History" By: Mari Uyehara in TASTE. Fascinating read on how canned tuna came to be, and the role of Southern California and the Japanese immigrants.

FEATUREDMax's Sandwich Book by Max Halley + Ben Benton of Max's Sandwich Shop in London is as beautifully designed and illustrated as it is mouth-watering. Here's a peek inside and a quick flip thru.

USPS goes scratch and sniff with these upcoming Ice Cream Stamps!

Paddywax Mesa Candles - once burned off, the stackable vessels double as a cream & sugar set! (Or you can get creative with filling the colorful totem pole of matte speckled ceramic vessels.)

The history of Peanut Butter & Mayo Sandwiches in Garden & Gun. A depression era creation with lots of variations. (This came up recently at NOTCOT and we had to find out more!)

Bumbleberry Farms Honey Cream Gift Set - Lovers’ Leap Sea Salt Caramel, Squirrel Crazy Maple, Molten Lava Spiced Chocolate and Sticky Buns Cinnamon. Fun packaging and labels.

In the Courtyard of Art, mode:lina studio designers approached its façade as if it was a piece of art. Dark walls were extended with the use of almost one thousand white sport cones, referring to LODOVNIA's flagship product – natural ice cream in a cone.

Papelaria x Colette Carnet Croque Madam and Croque Monsieur ~ fun sandwich shaped notebooks

VIDEOPacific Shaving Co. Single Use Shaving Cream Minis - like dishwashing/laundry pods but for shaving cream! (What's next? Shampoo? Conditioner? Face wash?)

Sol de Janiero Samba 2-Step Foot Fetish Care with a Smoothing Foot Board and Samba Foot Fetish Cream. Cute design detail with the wooden surfboard smoothing foot board in a little bag.

Bourbon Chocolatier Sauce by Ward's Kentucky Specialties. A perfect marriage of dark chocolate and aged bourbon. Perfect for everything from ice cream to fresh strawberries to cocktails and more.

Jeni's Ice Cream x Valley Cruise Press collaboration of ice cream enamel lapel pins are pretty cute

Ben & Jerry's x New Belgium = Salted Caramel Brown-ie Ale ice cream and bottle of Salted Caramel Brownie Ale beer!

Hungry Eyes NY has ramen, taco, bao, fried chicken sandwich, burger, and donut pins/stickers with googly eyes.

C.R.E.A.M. table by Onur Ozkaya developed by using glass and fiber reinforced concrete mixture formed by plywood board frames.

Oh Joy! has a great "Career Day" interview with Jeni's Ice Cream founder, Jeni Britton Bauer! Inspiring to hear about her start (and fumbles) and journey along the way!

Show Stopping Sips! Pour hot espresso & mocha over candy cane cotton candy & ice cream for a spectacular holiday affogato treat.

Ice Cream Cake "Village” by Nendo for Häagen-Dazs

White chocolate skull by the Frosted Petticoat. Skull is dusted in edible shimmer.

Manuel Linares, Spanish physicist and ice cream lover, has developed a new type of ice cream that changes color when you lick it.

Pes is kickstarting his next stop action film, Submarine Sandwich, and the video itself is already mesmerizing! Additionally, he's even offering his first limited edition 5" sub TOY as one of the rewards.

Prospector Co has shaving goods specially for Lady Legs! Leg Shave Shaving Cream, Superlative Leg Shave Oil, and Gwenda Hawkes Aftershave Leg Toner.

Apple Pie ala Mode Jello Shots - Spiced apple juice and vodka in tiny pie crusts topped with mini scoops of jiggly vanilla ice cream.

Ice cream bowls that allow you to sip the melted remains, via Haand in Eli Whitney, NC.

The Ursa Major Traveler's Skin Care Kit contains travel-friendly sizes of Face Wash, Shave Cream, Face Balm and five tonic-infused bamboo Face Wipes, all housed in a majestic, reusable tin.

The parlor décor, created by architecture and design firm March Gut, adds a futuristic upgrade to Linz's Eisdieler Ice Cream Parlor.

BurritoBox Vending Machine ~ this digital vending machine heats up your evol burritos and lets you add sides of sour cream, guacamole, etc.

Prickly and Cream is a Sydney based ceramics Studio, where we pretend to be sweet all the time.

Black + Blum Sandwich on Board Set ~ cute cutting board design built into this sandwich box!

FEATUREDHow to Make The Ultimate Egg Sandwich over at the freshly opened Summers Juice and Coffee in Brooklyn. Between the special bun is a spiral of sriracha, avocado, bacon, and a fried egg filled with cheese.

The Oxymoron Maker II from Andrea Carulla for Rocambolesc warms up and seals an ice cream filled brioche in a few seconds.

FEATUREDBaileys Chocolat Luxe combines Belgian chocolate, Irish whiskey, and cream, which marbles beautifully with water... Here's a peek at the launch with Bompas & Parr filled with Culinary Alchemy, marbled foods, chocolate and rhapsodomancy!

Onlookers along the Chicago River couldn’t believe their eyes on Sunday afternoon when a fleet of little red, cream, and mint colored Fiats appeared to be driving on the river!

Cream of the cream of General DIKKI Stereo Gif project on Behance. The stereo gif is 3d photography.

Isolated ice cream 'snow' showers at Thorpe Park

Lacoste teamed up with french caterer Fauchon to create exclusive cream puff pastries filled with chocolate.

STOYN Ice-Cream is a design experiment in which the ice-cream is shaped in the images of several key cultural figures of the 20th century, each with a unique flavor.

Arrfscarf's fresh handmade treats and ice cream for dogs!

FEATUREDMochicream Mochido = Mochi Donuts! Just found these adorably packaged delights that aren't quite as they seem. They have a coating on a ring of mochi filled with cream/sauce depending on the flavor.

FEATUREDEYESCREAM! Amazing barcelona store for a deconstructed twist on the taiwanese shaved ice cream trend... with incredible branding, packaging, and googly eyes!

Jeni's Ice Cream's Influenza Sorbet - "Cayenne pepper, ginger, Maker's Mark bourbon, honey, and cold- and flu-fighting orange and lemon juices. Cures whatever ails you."

Amazing moon ice cream cakes! created by London designers Doshi Levien for Häagen-Dazs.

FEATUREDEisdieler: Verboden Lekker in Linz, Austria. My new favorite ice cream... delicious natural ice cream, handmade long black sugar cones, cheeky photography, minimal menu design, and an incredible ceiling you won't expect.

Frito Pie Burger, Coconut quinoa and a Bourbon Cream Float are all featured this week at Tasteologie and Liqurious.

Funkleshop's Gullfuglen (The Golden Bird) Cushion- Multicoloured embroidery on a cream textile, dark grey backside with invisible zipper.

Kkis Ice Cream Canapé, an interesting bowl/cone type contraption for enjoying a trio of ice creams by Martin Jakobsen.

FEATUREDIce cream cupcakes, homemade peanut butter cups and the blue spruce are all part of this week’s delectable roundup from Tasteologie and Liqurious.

The Mini ice cream maker invented by Piero Musso has been produced in small numbers since the early sixties at Mortara, in Pavia. It has seduced ordinary and not-so-ordinary people.

A set of hexagonal bowls in rusted steel, anodised aluminium and in veneer+cork sandwich.

Amco Houseworks Serrated Ice Cream Scoop - nice faceted inner surface to keep the scoop from suctioning.

Brano Meres X-9 Nighthawk is an experimental frame with aramid honeycomb sandwich panels as a core, laminated with carbon fiber. Equipped with the infiniti3D security system.

VIDEOExperimento Comparte - Ad shows how kids react when one finds an empty plate and the other a sandwich. "

FEATUREDGreen tea cream puffs, delectable pho bo and ‘The Duck Fat Sazera’ are all part of this week’s roundup from Tasteologie and Liqurious.

"I am the master of my fate and captain of my soul." This inspirational typographic artprint illustrated an extract from Invictus poem written by William Ernest Henley in 1875. Available in both French or English by Eva Juliet.

Lunchbox Car. Drive it across the table and take a pitstop to have a sandwich. Without playing with your food of course..designed by Ramon Middelkoop and Chris Koens for Invotis Orange.

MINIFRUIT An assortment of twenty fruits, emptied of their pulp and then filled with ice-cream derived from it. Simple and natural ingredients, carefully prepared to obtain a unique product of its kind, the fruit filled with ice-cream of corresponding flavor.

Fun packaging for ice cream shop Honey & Mackie's by Wink.

An ode to one of the best sandwiches ever invented: the Shooter's Sandwich - a whole loaf of bread, filled with uncut steaks and mushrooms, then FLATTENED with a case of beer before cutting.

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.

FEATUREDAnthony Lister kicks off Junk Food Clothing's Art House collection with fun tees, posters, murals, ice cream truck and more! Great opening tonight!

Diver & Aguilar explode ice cream ingredients for Magnum.

Poster design for upcoming Robots Love Ice Cream indie game for the iPad. This is one of the Kickstarter rewards being offered. The creative for the game is heavily inspired by vinyl toys.

Pop Culture Popsicles from STOYN Ice Cream.

How to make the clouds rain ice cream. No, really. Designer Cathrine Kramer set out to turn this childlike fantasy into reality with Zoe Papadopoulou.

Wonderful ice cream design from danish born, Portland based Mette Hornung Rankin in collaboration with Substance.

Tactical Sammich from ThinkGeek, the ultimate survival sandwich!

Love the packaging on these Selfridges Selection traditional sweets. Sherbert Pips, Cola Cubes, Strawberries and Cream and more favorites.

FEATUREDSmitten Ice Cream ~ from radio flyer to 2xShipping Container ~ here's a peek inside the new made-to-order liquid nitrogen ice cream shop in Hayes Valley, San Francisco! (Flavor: Black Sea Salt Caramel)

Switch Design created these glass food covers. Each was designed for a specific type of snack – onigiri (rice ball), shu cream (cream puff) and a slice of cake.

FEATUREDTanks of liquid nitrogen! Kitchen Aid Mixers! Swings! Lab coats! ICE CREAM! So many awesome elements come together at Chin Chin Labs, Europe's first Nitro Ice-Cream Parlor in Camden, London.

Coffee and Cream ~ Modernist Cuisine shares a little sneak peak of their upcoming book and some fun high-speed video of creamer hitting coffee.

Meat & Bread is a great name for a sandwich shop. In addition to a great name they are also sporting a stylistically pure identity created by Glasfurd & Walker.

Adult Chocolate Milk. With Adult Orange Cream, Adult Fruit Punch, and Adult Limeade on the way... adorable illustrations throughout the site!

Nathaniel Cooper and Brent Anderson designed the packaging for Glace Artisan Ice Cream.

Sweet integrated branding for a cool new ice cream shop in Kansas City.

A look inside a renovated pharmacy that has been converted into an ice cream shop. Brooklyn Farmacy & Soda Fountain.

FEATUREDThe latest from NOTCOT.org include great architecture, furniture and lots of little things to brighten your day. Who wouldn’t be cheered by skull ice cream bowls or bacon infused caviar?

A Japanese Subway sandwich shop has started growing hydroponic lettuce right in the middle of the store! Not only is this hyper-local lettuce healthy, it’s a great visual centerpiece for the space.

Read more: Subway in Japan Grows Hydroponic Lettuce to Top Their Foot Longs | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World

The K99 is the world’s first ice cream van for dogs. The treat van for pampered pooches will make its debut at the Boomerang Pets Party in Regents Park on July 24th.

SapientNitro unveils world’s first ever smile-activated Ice Cream Vending Machine for Unilever

Nestle Ice Cream and JWT Johannesburg created a new summer accessory, a hat made from ice cream sticks!

Found these LunchPunch sandwich cutters after asking for child friendly sandwich cutters which are also 100% recyclable for both product & packaging.

Recently awarded ‘most likely to succeed brand’ by The Sunday Times, Brighton's Lick have a simple message, great product (frozen yoghurt and ice cream) and lovable chic aesthetic....

Hundred of jaw-droppingly gorgeous designs for restaurants, cafes, ice cream shops and more in the new book, Eat Out!

Pain Surprise! Hollow out the bread, make a mix of sandwich flavors and put them back in! And a bunch of other mouth watering savories in week 3 of COVERED IN FARINE's adventures learning to be a pastry chef in Paris!

designed by ryoichi kojima, this house, located in ota-ku, tokyo. is a three-storey single family house where the living room is a wooden cabin suspended between the two side walls.

Sandwich on Rye, little desktop accesory for you to keep things in order. Designed by Haruka Nakai.

A hilarious Shaving Cream package design. "Shaving Cream That Packs the brilliant scent of success," or "Shaving Cream that Beats the rare scent of dirt."

These plates are one-off prototypes from a BLK/MRKT design project for LEAF. They are thick melamine in cream and black with BLK/MRKT logo imprinted in the back.

Handcrafted porcelain ice cream cones from designer Virginia Sin. Inedible, but very buyable!

Parra and Stones Throw are hosting a mobile Rockwell pop-up ice cream truck that will be cruising around LA this weekend.

Happy Socks worked with 6 artists on some great Christmas cards. The line-up includes James Jarvis, Marok and Cream.

Gabriele Wilson, usually known for her delicate, gorgeous book cover designs, has designed the signage and identity for Blue Marble ice cream shop in Brooklyn.

The Cloud Project uses cloud-seeding technology to make clouds that snow ice cream.

Keeping Mercedes’ sandwich floor concept in mind, the BlueZero’s structure allows for three different platforms to be realized: an E-Cell with battery, E-Cell plus with battery and gasoline, and an F-Cell with hydrogen.

These “Suitcase Packs” contain bathing bags including: shaving cream, aftershave, body soap, shampoo, and body cream for 7, 14, or 31 days depending on the length of your trip.

FEATUREDWho knew a box from Ben & Jerry's would turn into sticking my thumb into little tubs of ice cream, playing with dry ice, making videos and consuming FLIPPED OUT! Check out this intriguing new packaging...

Super cute TEAK ICE CREAM SCOOP! by Chabatree

Sweet stool is inspired on making ice cream. At Spell we like to say Sweet is dipped in pleasure. This stool is part of the let's celebrate collection and available in a broad variety of tasty colours.

Kid Koala and Nerdcore present: "Music to Draw to.......Los Angeles" 5 hour set of quiet time tunes to work to... Bring your sketchbook, yarn or that lump of clay and come on down and get some work done.

Don't we all feel like this some days? Acid in the Ice Cream ~ solo art show at Backspace Gallery in Portland by Zenvironments - Zach Johnsen

Haagen Dazs FIVE ~ "all natural ice cream crafted with only five ingredients for incredbily pure, balanced flavor... and surprisingly less fat" ~ Nice clean packaging too!

junfei176's Cuppets are an interesting twist to the usual ice cream cup ~ they turn into bobble headed puppets!

Sword'ouevres ~ giant mini swords for spreading dip/cream cheese/etc ~ from Fred!

VIDEOGuy balances a 13 ft. ice cream down a crowded boardwalk

Sausage & Mash in a cone. Great winter alternative to an ice cream cornet with mash, peas and gravy.

Fun, retro-style candy wrappers designed by Brittany Pickrem for Sugah! Confectionery & Ice Cream Shop in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Anna Geslev studio came up with a fun and colorful project for igloo ice cream.

Delicate snow scarf - Handmade from a delicate blend of hand-dyed silk and merino wool felt, it can be worn long or draped around your neck like a delicate strand of dreamy cream rose petals.

One hundred couples in Tokyo were invited to a private concert, where there's lavish beds, and unlimited Haagen-Dazs ice cream to watch a classical concert in maximum comfort.

DZ Nuts - a high viscosity chamois cream that features green tea, evodia and masterwort designed to prevent friction in unfortunate places.

if you've ever had your lunch stolen, you know the the frustration it causes. Anti-Theft Lunch Bags are regular sandwich bags that have green splotches printed on both sides. After your sandwich is placed inside, no one will want to touch it.

Nice packaging for Jeni's Ice Creams, that makes ice cream and sorbet per order. Packing, logo, etc. by Element. Makes me hungry for some ice cream!

I Am Rich - Completely useless iphone app that "reminds you (and others when you show it to them) that you were rich enough to afford this." Only $999.99!

Great ice cream packing from Danish, family run, Hansens Flødeis. The profile, somewhat based on PR-material from 1922, was created by Hansens Flødeis together with Danish designer Mads Berg.

CREAM! The new line of vibrator packaging featuring the product in a playful milk/cream carton. YUM!

I've never been one to object to bread crusts, but I still dig these Good Bites sandwich cutters.

Funny ad from Cream out of Athens, Greece and creative director Fotis Georgiou. Pretty solid ad for the great cause of world AIDS day.

The Kitsuné Noir you shouldn't eat: Black Sesame Ice Cream Candle a la sesame street (tip: follow the fox to access more of their wonderful music and nice clothes)

On brilliant/insane new marketing ideas ~ Brazilian ice-cream company Kibon is including their prizes INSIDE... ipod shuffles are being frozen into popsicles...

Logo size is one of the main bone of contention in the client/designer relationship. But thankfully you can get the MakeMyLogoBigger cream...

Sexy pie fight in underwear ! Anyone to organize one? - [Davenport gets attention for their cotton undies by adding cream pies and jello.]

FEATUREDMixko Ice Cream lights ~ for a window display at Colette

On my bird theme, nice black and white birdy graphics on the packaging for Benefit's new creaseless cream shadow/liners

Multiflask permits safe and space-saving transportation of four individually compiled cosmetics (shampoo, soap, sun- and skin cream, after shave and the like).

Method will be launching their BLOQ line ~ body wash, lotion, shave cream, and bar soap. green mint for the "go getter", water flower for the "pure minimalist", beach sage for the "escape artist", and citron leaf for the "eternal optimist."

An ice cream truck for the urban set. I wonder what their flavors will be called?