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Vertikal Vodka : In a saturated market of premium and ultra premium Vodka brands, Nonobject have created the next level of experience for consumers through their design approach that stirs up new emotional responses and connections. Looking at bottle design today, they have delivered the premium and ultra premium Vodka beverage category, a more progressive design - one that would evoke emotion and push the limits further, while keeping in mind cost implications, engineering complexity and manufacturability. After its initial life as a product, the bottle is designed to be re-used as an elegant Vase.

Packaging Design and Brand and Graphic design experience solely created and developed by California based design company nonobject. Vertikal Vodka neckless bottle is Utility Patent Pending and Design Patent Pending.

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Leave, a leaf-shaped fridge magnet designed by Richard Hutten, has been put into production by office furniture manufacturers Gispen.

The plastic leaves were originally designed for the office ceilings of the Boijmans van Beuningen museum in Rotterdam.

“Since it’s a magnet, you can apply it to any metal surface,” says Hutton. “I did my whole fridge with it. A sort of a bush.”

Pepsi has introduced a new, pared-down natural version of Pepsi called Pepsi Raw. A limited launch of this new beverage is being offered in select bars in the UK. The identity was designed by Ziggurat from the UK.

The bottle shape and graduated ridges are very attractive, coupled with the simple screen-printed graphics that allow the rich brown liquid to show through. These could work really well in an upscale bar setting.

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Ok so you know I love the open road, and whilst these tyres are for the 4 wheeled variety, its a pretty great idea. These tyres from are an all season, retractable stud tire, that performs well on wet and dry days. When needed, the Celsius uses existing tire pressure to inflate a secondary chamber, pushing studs through the surface for snow and ice, all at the push of a button. If conditions improve, air from the second chamber can be expelled and the studs will be pulled back inside. Ok so in the UK we may never need this extreme change in our cars footwear but the thought that it could make a few bad drivers better.

Extending the classic style of the brand Veuve Clicquot this premium limited edition showcase, combines beauty with function. Designed by Porche Design and at $70,000 a pop, it may be a little out of us lowly designers range. At least the champagne gives us a taste of this classic style.

Measuring over six feet tall Vertical Limit holds 12 magnums of Clicquot’s most prized vintages and only 15 were made worldwide. Each Vertical Limit is fully handmade and each of the 12 vintages are housed in its own compartment with the temperature set at a constant 12 degrees celsius—ideal for tasting and the same climate as the Veuve Clicquot cellars in Reims, France.

“We wanted to create a product to match the ultra high-end superiority of the Veuve Clicquot brand, so we tried to emphasize the importance of each bottle. We thought that each bottle should have its own stage essentially. This is why we gave each bottle its own door coupled with the classic Veuve Clicquot yellow as a light. We did this so each bottle received the attention it deserves, rather than opening one door to a collection of bottles. In making a superior looking product we also decided to make the Vertical Limit a tall object”.

Roland Heiler

Over the last few weeks I have been involved in bringing to life our new brand. In the process I have found myself looking beyond the creative execution to what the science is behind it as the representation of art and science. For a lot of what I have found intuition plays the greater role, the emotion of the artist, designer or modern day craftsperson being the driver. But a few have sparked my interest to look further and have found perhaps not the modern day Da Vinci’s, but fascianting all the same.

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Bruce Shapiro

Northern California-based artist Bruce Shapiro makes the kind of kinetic sculpture that mesmerizes and dazzles visitors at science museums using computers and simple motors, a practice he terms “The Art of Motion Control.” In episode 94 we visit Bruce at the Maker Fair and at his home to learn more about works like “Pipedream,” effectively a screen that uses bubbles in place of pixels, “Sisyphus, “an intricate zen sand drawing and a kinetic ribbon sculpture modeled on ribbon dancers.

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Tom Gallant

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Living and working in Brussels, Belgium, Tom Gallant creates hand-cut floral prints out of archived pornographic magazines. Using a surgical blade, he cuts into the imagery, layering extremely delicate cut-outs on top of one another to assemble a dramatic visual experience that almost blurs your vision. If you look closely you can see hints of hair, lips, neck and genitalia, but it’s the paper’s flesh tones and curvature that stand out.

Soft spoken and a self-proclaimed compulsive collector, he describes his work as a visual language “dealing with a private matter in a very public way.

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