“Products should create joy and surprise the user…” Mission accomplished: a circular knife, sheathed in rubber, created for the Danish brand, Norman Copenhagen.
PEOPLE POWER
I see the year-end design awards rolling in now, for this latest wow of a cover from Bloomberg Businessweek.
BLUE GREEN
Can pesticides ever be ‘green?’ With branding this inspired and pristine (such a brilliant blue over ho-hum green), created by the Mexican agency Anagrama for a producer of sustainable agricultural pesticides, I just may become a believer.
HEIGHTENED
BLAH BLAH BLAH
Not just my daily mantra; a recent magazine illustration for an article bemoaning the shrinking vocabulary of bloggers.
NEWS LETTER
A fairly distinctive identity for the new Danish newspaper, Information, designed by Copenhagen’s Mega Design.
FOOD COLORING
Here’s a graphic way to keep track of what (and how much) you should (and shouldn’t) be eating: the Wheel of Nutrition ceramic plate by Icelandic designers Rui Pereira and Halfsteinn Juliusson.
PETAL PUSHER
The Singaporean photographer Fong Qi Wei, explores the form, shape and texture of flowers by disassembling–and then reassembling–them.
KITCHEN HELPER
Drying dishes might actually be edifying, if done with these pure linen, screen printed towels by the Danish textile designer Helle Graabæk.
FINE FORM
Custom typography is the stock and trade of the UK design studio, Sawdust. Here, two spectacular posters that artfully illustrate Esoteric Form.

















