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Champions of Design – Havaianas 27 Aug 2013 | 01:27 pm
The January 2000 edition of Vogue featured Gisele Bündchen on its cover with the headline ‘What’s sexy now?’ As another of Brazil’s most successful exports, she represented a shift from 90s heroin chi...
Boxing clever: provenance, sustainability & selling snow to an Eskimo 23 Aug 2013 | 01:35 pm
What makes us go out of our way to pay money for something that’s completely free in our own homes? One answer is ‘lord only knows’, and the other is of course branded packaging. This new launch caugh...
Ampelmännchen 22 Aug 2013 | 02:07 pm
Above is Ampelmännchen. He’s Germany’s pedestrian green crossing man. He originated in former Communist East Germany and was designed by ‘traffic psychologist’ Karl Peglau in 1961. UK newspapers have ...
The rise of the man brand 21 Aug 2013 | 02:22 pm
Many people have tried to change the rules in the matriarchal world of yogurt. Now it’s time for another brave brand to take on the challenge. Unlike the typical bright design and calm Mediterranean ...
Champions of Design – Flaming Heart 20 Aug 2013 | 02:47 pm
I’ve never met whisky maker John Glaser but I have a strong hunch he is a Champion of Design. One only needs to look at the portfolio of packaging in the company he founded – Compass Box Whisky – to i...
Absolut arty party 19 Aug 2013 | 01:44 pm
There are certain brands whose redesign is always going to be talked about. The redesign of the Absolut flavour range is one of them. Do you like the new look? I will keep my subjective opinion to my...
The Cardboard Cathedral: inventive, intelligent and elegant 16 Aug 2013 | 02:14 pm
On Sunday, Christchurch Cathedral held its first service since the devastating earthquake of 2011. Not in the original neo-gothic cathedral that was almost leveled at the time, but in a transitional s...
Designed to help 15 Aug 2013 | 04:04 pm
Every design has its time but the ‘self expiring’ packaging for medicine literally tells you when it’s passed its best. It uses a new technique featuring labels which change overtime to highlight whe...
Chineasy: why pictures speak louder than compound autograms 14 Aug 2013 | 01:35 pm
I came across Chineasy this week and I have already increased the number of Chinese characters I can read by a factor of ten. I know ten characters isn’t that many, but it’s not bad for a cursory gla...
Champions of Design – Dean & DeLuca 13 Aug 2013 | 04:04 pm
Britain may be famed as the nation of shopkeepers, but it is in America that some of the very finest examples of retail therapy are to be found. In stark contrast to the halogen lights and primary co...
