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Bland packaging is Dead & Buried.

April 21st, 2010   |   Posted by

There’s nothing I like more than a nice bit of packaging design.

Okay, so that’s a complete lie. I love infinitely more things than nice packaging design; sweet n’ sour prawn balls, crispy chilli beef, prawn crackers, beer, horror movies, horror movies about killer sweet n’ sour prawns…you get the idea. But this bit of work for the totally incredible HBO series Six Feet Under really is quite stunning. Avoiding the usual cardboard DVD cases inside a larger cardboard case, the designers have instead opted for…ummm, well…?..okay, so it’s a load of cardboard DVD cases inside a larger cardboard case, but that’s not the point…

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Another reason why I love Apple.

March 25th, 2010   |   Posted by

I love Apple…unashamedly so.

Why? Oh…there’s sooooooo many reasons why, but high up on the list is the way that they think. Click here to discover news of a patent they’ve filed that just backs up my last comment and makes me wish that I’d only just heard about this after it had gone on sale…and not this early on in the game.

Water way, to think of the environment.

March 18th, 2010   |   Posted by

OK…sorry for the shameless Alan Partridge pun, but I couldn’t help it. Sue me…it’s been a long day.

Rightso, this is quite an exceptional idea and one that’s had me thinking of the possibilities most of the afternoon. I’m not gonna’ waffle on, I’ll let the cut & paste from Design Boom do that inside, but just think what the world would be like if every new building had this level of thought put into it?…

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