Wonder & Wise Shapes of Emotions Puzzle. Adorable faces! "On one side is the expression of the emotion, and the other side is the word. happy, embarrassed, mad, frustrated, sad, tired, excited, scared, shy or surprised."

Sea Walls x Pangea Seed shirts - so tempting, with great art meets ocean creature designs for a good cause!

"Syngnathidae" print by Zoe Keller for Pangea Seed Foundation. Another stunning print by one of our favorite artists, for one of our favorite groups! Look at the detail! Those baby seahorses!!!

Paddywax Flora Collection of Diffusers have glass vessels with a brushed gold metal plate that turns into the perfect bulb/seed vase! (My avocado seed would be perfect in this!) They always have such lovely simple designs with gift worthy packaging.

Piccolo Seeds! Such bold, lovely, graphic packaging for this Italian seed company.

Sneaker seeding by Adidas via Boston Dynamics 4 legged robot! Delivering Pharrell Williams’ Hu NMD sneaker, to Pusha-T. Details at HighSnobiety.

OCTOPODES! Print by Zoe Keller for Pangea Seed featuring Giant Pacific, Ghost, Caribbean Reef, Starry Night, Octopus Wolfi, California Two Spot, Coconut, Larger Pacific Striped, Greater Blue Ring, with Pacific Red Octopus eggs and hatchlings.

Pangea Seed 'Love Sharks' T-Shirt

Conos - wooden spinning tops inspired by seeds. Designed and manufactured by chilean designer/jeweler Nicolás Hernández.

Seed Phytonutrients are packaged in a "shower-friendly post-consumer recycled paper bottle" made by Ecologic. Apparently "The plastic liner is so thin—95 percent thinner than conventional bottles— that it collapses as it’s used."

Emerging Objects' Cabin of Curiosities in Oakland is covered in over 4,500 3D printed tiles! Planter tiles on the front make up a living wall of succulents, and the roof and sides are covered in Seed Stitch tiles.

The 2018 Whole Seed Catalog from Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds. "The preeminent resource for amazing heirloom/open-pollinated seeds, as well as cutting-edge information for and about the pure-food movement."

Amborella Organics Lollipops have seeds in the sticks (like Half Lit Cannabis Lollipops!) but these will grow herbs! Flavors include Champagne & Roses, Lavender & Lemongrass, Sage & Marshmallow and more...

Scott Listfield "Whale Shark" Print for Pangea Seed! 20 x 20 Inches. Limited Edition of 50. Signed & numbered.

Lemon Laine Oil Bar in collaboration with Clary Collection. If you're in Nashville, you can make an appointment and they will create a custom blend of seed, nut, and plant oils to meet your needs. Is this the new custom perfume bar?

Half Lit Cannabis Lollipops have a cannabis seed in the stick! Fun packaging and product idea. Nice hemispherical lollipop shape.

Seeds in glass vials in laser etched wooden boxes. Unique packaging by Humboldt Seed Organisation.

Humboldt Seed Organisation Mandalas "Humboldt Seeds Fractals"

Monique Aimee "They tried to bury us, they didn't know we were seeds." Enamel Pin. 50% of profit goes to the American Civil Liberties Union.

Li Hill "Caught In The Net" - stunning new print for Pangaea Seed. Limited edition of 35, signed & numbered, and hand-embellished.

Modern Sprout Eco Planters - self-watering herb kits in weck jars with organic seeds.

Miracle-Gro Gro-ables - interesting packaging for these all in one seed pods. Pop them in some soil and add water.

SEED by Taeg Nishimoto is an object to be hung on the wall incorporating small plants as the focus. Each profile is taken from different river stones’ shape.

Typehype - A store in Berlin devoted to Type. A typography lover's dream everything from posters to cushion covers and chocolate in your favourite type faces.

PushmiPullyu is a small table named after the two-headed Doctor Doolittle character who couldn't decide which way to go. He has different faces either end and perfect for a child or adult.

Design YXR 12 Faces - A geometric potholder and decoration.

Smaller & Upside Down is a collection of 3D-printed lenses that distort views of faces. Created by Max Hawkins and Robb Godshaw.

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.

Kaitlyn Schwalje's seed photo series taken under microscope. Seeds were collected from the Nordic Gene Resource Center and bound for Svalbard Global Seed Vault.

INSEK Design Concrete Candles - Individually hand cast concrete vessels filled with soy wax in seasonal scents. Each candle comes in a reclaimed wood box with a seed paper card and instructions for planting in the vessel after burning.

SLITTENS: Kittens with sloth faces - amusing photoshopped tumblr by Rachael Aslett.

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

VIDEOBurger Selfies: Hellmann's prints mayo faces onto burgers by hacking a 3D printer.

Ice Receding/Books Reseeding., an interesting book from Basia Irland which embeds seeds from the local area in blocks of river water to draw attention to climate change.

The AIGA 100 - One hundred interactive projection-mapped clock faces for the AIGA Centennial Gala.

Kabloom release a new range of seed grenades, including the pondbom, butterflybom and catnipbom.

VIDEOInstallation video of three 25-foot tall dandelion seeds in stainless steel and corten, a sculpture celebrating a wish of South Central Los Angeles coming true.

A steel cube, with grills on three faces. You pick the color. It's simple in shape, yet "Wire Side Table" by Iacoli & McAllister has a sophisticated construction.

Under Armour launched the UA SpeedFormTM Apollo, with a Limited Edition 'jet' shoe box, designed to be a visual takedown of the 'This Is What Fast Feels Like' campaign.

Urbanproduct Studio hand turn every 'Spun' bird feeder which holds water and seed, remaining virtually squirrel proof on its suspended wire.

Portlandia got Alex Prager to shoot their latest ads in the style of her fine-art photos - Carrie and Fred are faces in the crowd - and they are awesome!

VIDEOA literal explosion of flavor! Several tons of black peppercorns, cardamom, turmeric, paprika, cumin seeds, ginger, chilli and coriander were rigged to explode in perfect sync with a bespoke musical composition by Grey London for Schwartz.

Tiskaj ZELENO prints with a blend of grass seed and mud. The device designed by students at the University of Maribor in Slovenia bringsnew meaning to “watching the grass grow.”

The SEEDCELL is a fun and unique gardening innovation for seed packaging providing a micro environment perfect for germination.

Flower Shell - We've seen seed grenades, now you can fire seed shotgun shells with Flower Shell from Studio Total.

Happy Faces! By Studio Inherent - "Each Happy Face is a unique infographic of one of the top 10 monumental trees located in Rotterdam." Pull the tab and the masks get happy!

FEATUREDA close up look at Bruce Lee Playing Cards by Dan & Dave. "The faces of the cards were inspired by the iconic tracksuit he wore in Game of Death, and feature a black stripe running through them, “like water”."

Pangaea Seed's Sea of Change: The Year of Living Dangerously October print is from Kozyndan, "Manatees'n'Bunnies"

The Seed of Solidarity, temporary pavilion for a volunteer organization that fights against hunger. was hosted by the city of Bologna in its historical center.

Skateboard Floor Piano for Element Skateboards at Faces&Laces exhibition

SEED Contemporary Concrete Tile by Gillian Blease for KAZA Concrete.

Faces of Water. New photographic technique that captures the hidden life of Water. Breathtaking, haunting collection of images of liquid water in motion. By Moses Hacmon.

FEATUREDLaser Cut Dog Treat Seaweed Flyers! Inspired the way maple propeller seeds fly, CA/TN, and Bucky's obsession with paper + flying insects, these make super fun treats as they float and flutter as he leaps! NOTlabs Laser Challenge #8.

Nice bird seed packaging wich can be transformed into a bird shelter with a seed distribution system

Seed Savour, lovely growing kits from Studio Harvest (Sebastiaan Sennema)

FEATUREDA close up look at ARThropod Brain by Tokyo Plastic and Emilio Garcia opening at the Toy Art Gallery. Brains + bugs + 3D printing + hand painted high gloss metallics + skull faces + giant jumping brains and so much more…

Following Fab Cafe's chocolate replicas of women's faces comes the opportunity for men to create gummy versions of themselves!

Seed Socks from Studio Swine, a portable dyer's workshop containing natural dye plants and sustainably sourced bamboo fibre socks.

FEATUREDMusic Video Roundup! So much goodness to watch and listen too ~ from ghillie suits in the forest dancing to fraggles in ben folds five to playing music with a car to projection mapping on singers faces and more!

The Print for Good project is one that blends the love of print, design and good causes with very limited releases on a monthly basis with all proceeds going to a charity of the designers choice.

FEATUREDSeed Money by Leafcutter Designs! From kickstarter to my mail box, these coins can be planted to grow goodness! Made from custom made seed filled paper that is then letterpressed and cut. Great packaging!

Guerilla Gardening Gift Boxes from Greenaid Seedbombs are a fun way to inspire urban transformation.

The Avocado Incubator by Andrew Mitchell is a pot specifically designed to look after your avocado seeds until they shoot. Just add water, a seed and patience.

Stasia Burrington's new series of 100 little faces (or shrunken heads) in the making!

FOLDS is 3D angular sculpture by David Mesguich and Valentin Van der Meulen that shows the transformations of the faces associated with life and death.

Sprout, a pencil with a seed. When the pencil becomes too short to use, you can plant it to grow herbs! Concept by democratech.

AGUA design's seed book notebooks remind us that we're all the curators of our observations and lives.

FEATUREDPlanting made easy! Daniel Robson's project, the Plot Seed Wheel gives users customized seeds to suit their gardens and come in separate plantable pods, so you don't even need gardening tools!

FEATUREDLet's grow some chilis! A look at the variety of chili peppers available and a peek at our attempts to grow some from seeds!

New research into coiled, helical self-planting seeds.

The stunningly beautiful Romanesco Broccoli with mesmerizing fractal like growth... you can get heirloom seeds to grow your own!

Spanish-based artist Isaac Cordal presents his amazing work Cement Bleak: sculpted faces into cooking strainers.

Scot Bailey has designed Funerary Seed Bomb kit for spreading cremated remains. Creating a ritual and artifact, these seed bombs can mark specific locations with local wildflowers to be sensitive to the environment.

With a focus on creating prismatic crystalline faces and volumes that trap and amplify light reflections, CAI Light’s latest collection continues the company’s tradition of bold, forward-thinking design.

Just in time for Earth Day, Brooklyn Industries launches 'seed bomb' bracelets!

McDonald’s X California Poppy Seed Bomb Ad by Sean Click. The California poppy is the California state flower, protected by legislature, making it illegal to pick, dig up, or destroy.

"Faces" is a fixture designed by Colonel, a brand new French editor.

Cute post at Heavy Petal on how to save tomato seeds (for planting your own!)

STOP PIPA/SOPA - The ModernMethod Network (Destructoid, Flixist, Tomopop, and Japanator) have blacked out sites in protest of legislation that would allow DNS and Search Engine Blocking... their blackout page is filled with sad faces!

Broken Geometry Animals are made up of sketched polygon faces, then translated into 2D vectors rather than a 3D model.

VIDEOWimpy uses sesame seeds to create braille messages on the top of their burgers. Great campaign from creative director Wes Phelan.

Seed Faces by Kelsey Pike. Little molded paper faces filled with sprout seeds ~ soak in water, place on top of soil, and poof... creepy sprouts grow out of the creepy little heads...

FEATUREDNOTCOT Holiday Giveaway #30: Ignoble Bags is giving away their limited edition (sold out!) Alternate Future Collection Duo of the Stilwin Seedpod Backpack and the Wonderly Canister Rucksack!

FEATUREDFirefly forests, Svalbard seed banks and Bohemian romance are all part of this week's roundup from Notventures.

X-ray images of seed life invisible to the human eye photographed by Dornith Doherty in her 'Archiving Eden' series.

FEATUREDNOTCOT Holiday Giveaway #19: Greenaid is giving away 10 limited edition holiday gift kits which come with 12 seedbombs and a wooden slingshot, all wrapped in a custom bandana for guerrilla gardening excursions!

Wonderful Streetart by german designer Timm Schneider, who turns trash cans, coffee cups, and street posts into goofy cartoon faces.

Photographer Dornith Doherty has been documenting seedbanks, the bunker-like structures storing seed that are designed to withstand everything from rising sea levels and terrorist attacks.

Watch how this shape evolves from an Icosahedron seed... folded out of paper plates from the Whole Movement project exploring circles.

Ulric Collette from Quebec/Canada created a project exploring genetic similarities between members of the same family. By splitting their faces in half and then melding them together, he creates some interesting images.

Aaron Colfer's The Seed Pod, a system to clean, dry and store seeds. Inspired by the Millennium Seed Pod, but designed for domestic use.

Outside the Modern art and culture museum in Bangkok can you find this piece of art. A QR barcode filled with small faces.

Noma Bar's "Guess Who? The Many Faces of Noma Bar".

100 Best Places to Stuff Your Faces - A Portland restaurant guide by Jen Stevenson, illustrations by Mette Hornung Rankin.

Green up your world: Grow your own herbs in your kitchen window or outdoors, with this kit of seed for 10 herbs, instructions and garden markers.

Steve Heller watches "Making Faces: Metal Type in the 21st Century,” a new documentary by Richard Kegler.

Cute little greeting cards by saatgut with assorted tree seeds to make your own contribution to reforestation.

FEATUREDElsa Peretti Bottle Pendants for Tiffany & Co ~ perfect little necklaces you can place a flower cutting in, or grow a seedling?

Madareteto bird feeder from Hungary for either seed or water. By Nora Nagy Anna, Aniko Juhasz and Eszter Stibranyi.

FEATUREDVanessa Harden's Subversive Gardener and Horticulturalists designs that launch/contain gel capsule pills filled with seeds! From cameras, to walking sticks, to guns and bags... things aren't what they seem.

FEATUREDKabloom SeedBoms! Happy Earth Day! Here's a fun way to spread some green around ~ adorable packaging as well!

Molded paper boxes full of seeds by Brett Fuss.

Celebrate Earth Day with Greenaid 2.0! In addition to new seed mixes, the developers of the seedbomb vending machine are now offering the worlds first guerrilla gardening iphone app to tag and share your interventions online.

This September, Random House will release seven rarely-seen Dr Seuss stories collected in "The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories".

Photographer Paul Graves with his latest work for the iconic brand Swatch. The campaign was in collaboration with creative director Alex Wiederin and will appear in the Swiss magazine Faces.

Beautiful illustrations by Iain Macarthur. Birds with complex geometric faces.

Painted Faces by Michelle Samuels. Cool project. Great shots!

Pot Maker - Make your own biodegradable seed starting pots with newspaper in these hardwood molds!

Don't Panic asked Kate MacDowell about dead animals, baroque aesthetics, and bugs crawling on people's faces.

Brilliant! “The Many Faces of Woody Allen” by Brandon Schaefer, a poster for the Gallery1988 x Funny or Die “Is This Thing On?” show in LA. Prints available at G1988.

Kevin Rushby faces his most hair-raising adventure yet on a horse ride with champion ex-jockey Richard Dunwoody in Georgia's Tusheti mountains.

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 Seed by Nevzat Sayin in Istanbul. A new activity center in connection with the Sakip Sabanci Museum.

'Seeds of wild flowers' microscopic image by Yanping Wang from the Beijing Planetarium. Part the NY Times 'Microscopic View' slideshow.

If you haven't yet been able to get to London to see Chinese artist Ai WeiWei's magnificent sunflower seed installation, here's another opportunity to see his work, Nov 18th - Mar 27th at Copenhagen's Faurschou Gallery.

Ai Weiwei's Sunflower Seeds at the Tate Modern.

Tokyo’s Sugamo Shinkin bank is fresh, original, and capable of putting a smile on the glummest of customers faces… shouldn’t all banking be like this? From Emmanuelle Moureaux Architecture + Design.

The House near Poznan is now completed. It was designed by Neostudio Architect and converted from a home of seed drying installation to a private house.

Branding for Food Up Front, a scheme that encourages people to use their front gardens for growing food. The identity is adaptable and the business cards have seeds in them!

Maude Bussière designed a nice way to pack seeds in a small envelop that becomes a label for the ground seedling identification.

The debut issue of typography magazine, 8 Faces, is available as a pdf. The printed version was a limited-edition of 1,000 that sold out in under 2 hours. There are interviews with Erik Spiekermann, Jessica Hische, Ian Coyle, etc.

Saved by Science, a wonderful slideshow of specimens behind the scenes at Natural History Museums from Justine Cooper.

FEATUREDSeed Bombing - Found one of the Common Studio Green Aid seed bomb machines at Fred Segal... testing out whether they work!

Love the idea of SeedBombs as wedding favors!

The Seattle-based artist John Grade creates spellbinding sculptures from stuff like cellulose, seeds and rice noodles.

There is a transformation in the nature of Beauty Retail. Beauty stores are creating environments that both represent the brand and incorporate lifestyle aspects.

FEATUREDSeed Media Group business cards and logo ~ love the way they integrated the logo with abstract portraits of the card holders - by Sagmeister Inc.

Amazing Spiral Aloe Polyphylla

Breakfast NY designs an iPad controlled Blimp for the MunNY Exhibit 2010. The blimp flies around superimposing Munny Characters on people's faces using live video.

Greenaid seedbomb vending machines UPDATE! A recent initiative from L.A.-based design firm Commonstudio, has been growing through L.A. and beyond, offering bite-sized contributions to more livable and beautiful cities.

Really lovely animation describing how seeds are collected and preserved for future generations in Kew's Millennium Seed bank. By Laurence Honderick.

Upon exit of the Seed Cathedral, Troika's last installation (Living City) presents a giant green river of plants bursting through the canopy of the last walkway, showcasing some of the most useful plant species for the future of our cities.

FEATUREDWe’ve had a week full of playful design and vibrant color here at NOTCOT.org. This week’s picks include seed grenades, clever ice cube trays, edible crayons and more.

Tired of seed bombs? These “Throw and Grow” flower grenades take guerilla gardening to the next level. Just be careful not to hit anyone; these babies would hurt. By Tony Minh Nguyen and Snowhome for Suck UK.

These edible handmade Luxirare crayons are literally health bars comprised of fruits and vegetables, nuts, and chocolate covered sesame seeds with a melted marshmallow core. Did I mention you can draw with them, too?

FEATUREDCore77 distributed Photopaddles from #30798 at NY Design Week and gave me a set tonight... see all the crazy faces i found!

Jessica Banks and Andrew Laska, the co-founders of the design firm RockPaperRobot, are using science and technology to change the meaning of “furniture.” Great interview and part of Seed Magazine on Design.

The Wilson Brothers for nike 1948 retail space, London. The PIXARAMIC layer comprises 6,000 manually positioned pixel cubes, each acrylic cube with 6 different coloured faces in red, green, yellow, blue, black and white.

The Cupcake Cannon is a slo-mo video by Kamp Grizzly. It's a series of people getting cupcakes shot at their pretty faces, in celebration of the Johnny Cupcakes SuitCase Tour

Garden Bon Bons look like chocolates - but this candy is for planting, not for eating! Place gourmet seed balls in a sunny spot, water, grow and enjoy fresh kitchen herbs or herbal teas. Available through Moulton.

Gorgeous packaging by VisuaLingual for a set of seed bombs available at Anthropologie for those in the US —you can get them tailored to your location: East Coast, West Coast or Midwest.

The most Insane architecture project i've seen in a while: Seed Cathedral for the UK Shanghai Pavilion by Heatherwick studio

Headspace: On Scent as Design, a one-day symposium from Parsons, MoMA, IFF, Seed, and Coty on the conception, impact, and applications of scent with leading thinkers, designers, scientists, artists, perfumers. March 26th.

GREENAID: A seedbomb vending machine program taking off in LA and soon to come to a city near you! Brought to you by Daniel Phillips and Kim Karlsrud via Commonstudio.