Absolute Appetite

Absolute Appetite are a London based interdisciplinary design studio. They do communication design and product design, especially tableware in fine bone china and glass. Check out their Flickr stream for quality photos of their product design.

Jack Featherstone

Jack Featherstone has a brand spanking new website, and it has some great multi-disciplinary work on it.

Mark Johnson

Mark Johnson got in touch with us to show us a piece of work that won a D&AD new blood award 09′. Of the work, Mark says, “Birds of a feather flock together. A series of posters for a new show on Channel4 called ‘The Story of Communities’.” Have a look on his site to see it in more detail.

Lisa Hughes

Recent graduate Lisa Hughes has some nice work in her portfolio.

GrowYourOwn Packaging

Adam Paterson and Santi Tonsukha from the Royal College of Art Industrial Design Engineering created “GrowYourOwn” packaging for fruit and vegetable seeds for novice gardeners. Using user centric research and the natural properties of 100% recyclable corrugated cardboard, they created new packaging that was simple, clear, sustainable and approachable. The project won ‘In-Book’ award for the D&AD Student Awards 2009. A single piece of 100% recycled corrugated cardboard is the package.

With previous seed packaging, distributing the seeds evenly from the pack was very hard. By using the corrugated structure the seeds are held in thin rows, which are the perfect ‘v’ shape to allow them to be very easily and controllably shaken out. It can be tedious and boring laying out rows of seeds whilst trying to maintain equal spacing. The new measuring tape style, which the DIY savvy customer can easily relate, makes it much quicker and easier. The tape, with its embedded seeds, has 10 cm markers on it, making it easy to simply pull out the desired length, tear it off and lay it in the ground.