Archives for the month of: August, 2010

Rick and Michael Mast are two guys who are extremely dedicated to their hand-crafted chocolate, personally sourcing cacao beans from family farms in Madagascar, Venezuela and Ecuador to name but a few. If that wasn’t enough to give them an edge, the also design the packaging, and hand wrap each bar.

Awesome example of how a personal touch and simple branding make a huge amount of difference. Another thing that makes a difference, is an impressive beard.

video from The Scout

Adios squires.

Finally figured out how to post vimeo videos on here. The quality is usually better, so here, have a nice video. Bloody Beetroots – Cornelius.

Looks like a smashing night out.

So fourth year is metaphorically RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER, and I’d definitely be lying if I said I was feeling super confident about it. In a little over 9 months, I’ll be prepping for a degree show to showcase my work. The main problem? I’ve not really given it a thought. Not being surrounded by design has completely knocked me out of a creative flow, something that I’m struggling to find whilst working. I wanted to hit fourth year ground running my legs off, not floundering around like a Magikarp.

I think if I name each fourth year related post as a number it could spur me to do some more.

Seen these on Drawn! a while ago.

Nice cut out illustrations from UK artist Peter Slight. He does some 3D stuff as well. It’d look really nice in a book or on a poster for something like global warming, but not really related to Product Design except in it that his quite a refreshing simplicity.

Short post tonight.x