By its teapot and dining tray creations, Yanko Design humorously seems to point out that catering to tea for two is as easy as Yin Yang, and that every meal should be treated as a unique DJ mix!
Humorous Eating & Drinking
Filming Flipbooks
Kraak & Smaak from WEAREWILL on Vimeo.
Like Russian dolls, the still shots in the flipbooks animate their subjects, and when filmed in live action, create a layered stop-motion and live-action effect.
Packed, Stuffed or Sculpted Shelving
Three distinctly different shelving solutions cater to three different styles of storing, and in turn, encourage either a behavior of collecting, stuffing away, or displaying selectively.
These interlocking, laminated pine boards form a lattice structure that can completely cover walls, or whatever portions desired, allowing for expansive storage and display. Designed by Kazuya Morita Architecture Studio.
Spiral shelves by Argue Design celebrate the chaos of living and the layered beauty of unfolded clothes, encouraging a carefree style to storage.
A clean, branch-like modular shelving solution allows for custom-designed shapes to suit both geometric and more organic tastes in organization. By Paris Lowitz Design.
Paper Home
A full-scale apartment made entirely in carton, complete with a lived-in look, as created by Don Lucho with recycled material found on the streets.
Steampunk Star Wars Cast
Stempunk Star Wars cast concepts by Bjorn Hurri.
4-Printer Printing Process
Just in Time, or a Short History of Production, is a book printed by four different printers, spanning 100 years between the printers' dates of manufacture: Magenta (Stencil duplicator, 1880); Cyan (Spirit duplicator, 1923); Black (Laser printer, 1969); Yellow (Inkjet printer, 1976). With each printer delegated to printing one ink plate, this book's production emphasizes the nature of the printing process itself, as well as its historical context.
Judging a Drug by its Cover: How Packaging Promotes Patient Adherence
This post from PharmaExecBlog discusses the impact of packaging design on user behavior, and its effects on patients' habits and health.
Patient adherence is a chronic issue in healthcare, leading to poor disease management, higher hospitalization rates, and lost revenue for Big Pharma. But one often overlooked facet of the complicated chain of events from R&D to marketing to prescribing may hold the key.
Patient adherence is not a new issue in the industry; still, the statistics are jarring. According to a recent white paper released by the Center for Health Transformation (CHT), the estimated annual cost of patients not taking their medications as prescribed is nearly $290 billion, and “approximately 125,000 Americans die annually (342 people every day) due to poor medication adherence.”
Many factors can contribute to patient adherence, or a lack thereof: ease of use, proper patient education, communication between physicians and patients, refill reminders from pharmacies, co-pay costs—the list goes on and on. But there is one element in the chain from Petri dish to patient—the moment a drug is created until the moment it is administered—that may have more of an impact on adherence than is recognized.
Ted Lithgow, PhD, chief science officer of MeadWestvaco (MWV), a provider of pharmaceutical packaging solutions, makes the case that pharmaceutical packaging can play a role in adherence, and in fact is in a unique position to influence patient behaviors. “Packaging is the only element that we know of that touches every single patient,” he says.
But being in a unique position to exact change is not enough to make it happen. Creative designs, strategies, and ideas must be put in place in order to leverage that power. One common example of packaging that can alter behavior is a blister pack with a calendar, where each pill in a 30-day supply is labeled with a day of the week to help patients remember to take their medications regularly. “The number one reason cited in most studies for why patients don’t take their medication is simple forgetfulness,” says Lithgow.
Packages geared toward specific populations are also key, says Lithgow. For example, senior citizens require packages that are easier to open, without difficult press tabs, while still considering the child-safety element. “We know that ease of access and child safety are critical. A package that is difficult to get into or presents challenges for patients, particularly senior patients, will be an adherence problem,” he explains. “In January of this year, the first baby boomer reached 65 years of age. As more of this grey tsunami hits the healthcare system, we’re going to have to be focused on making certain that those patients can use products easily.”
The result of taking all these issues—and more—into consideration is what Lithgow calls “adherence enhancing packaging,” which can affect adherence not only through ease of use, but also by standing out from the crowd. “We know that the majority of products out there are delivered in amber vials,” says Lithgow. “But amber vials don’t do anything to help patients remember when to take their medication, how much they’ve taken, or that it’s time to renew.”
Though at first glance packaging may seem like a tiny cog in a hugely complicated machine, there is a power and a responsibility that the package manufacturer must learn to accept. “There’s a huge cost element in the industry that never existed before that people really have to attend to,” says Lithgow. “In today’s market, it’s really all about cost management.” Cost concerns come from people living longer and staying on medication longer, new patients coming into the system through healthcare initiatives, and more people taking more medications. And Lithgow recognizes that patient adherence is one extremely effective method of cost containment.
“It’s interesting how brand people and marketers spend so much time thinking about how to reach out and touch the patient directly. Direct mail, advertising, and promotional campaigns are more expensive today than ever.” says Lithgow. “And packaging is one tool in the arsenal that brand managers have, and it’s the one tool that happens to touch every single patient. For my money, I think that’s a great investment.”
Oliver's Birth Announcement
As one of the suspect's designer-parents explains, the child had made the mother feel so uncomfortable for so long, that making a criminal file on him seemed the natural approach in designing his birth announcement. With clips, stamps and embossing, this print design piece is a wonderful demonstration of where the tangible experience can be very creative, effective, and interactive.
Credit: Arlo Guthrie & Leslie Guthrie
Little People Street Art
Little people set up against real urban settings making subtle, and not-so-subtle statements about life. The artist entices people on the street to stop and pay closer attention to their surroundings, in the process inviting them to reflect on the isolating feelings of living in big cities. By Slinkachu.
Amazing Celebrity Phone Book Carving Art
via golberz.com
Shinjuku Green Parking Design
A two-story concrete parking lot design features walls made from hanging, living plants that not only beautify the area by adding green and hiding cars, but help to absorb car emissions. The concept, by cheungvogl, includes a water harvesting system, and the plants' textural thread allows light to filter naturally into the Tokyo building.
Book Dissected to PaperArt
By the pass of Exacto knives, tweezers, glue and other tools, vintage books are cut up and re-constructed as self-framed pieces offering a dimensional collage of their illustrated guts. Credit: Julia Feld
Spanish Tourism Posters, Pre-Civil War
Joseph Morell Macías was born in San Esteve d'en Bas (province of Girona), Spain, in 1899. After his art studies in Seville, and travels abroad to Belgium and France, he returned to Spain to become the greatest influencer of tourist-based posters from the 1920's up until the Spanish Civil War, with work marked by simple compositions, painterly style, and strong diagonal lines.
Gabe Boning | Quotes on Design
Functionality is so over-valued in design, and we’ve kept design very small in that way. Functionality is the sheer minimum. If your house burns down, what do you take? The cat in the window that you got from your mother, or the chair you have?
— Marcel Wanders
Elegant Can Labels
The simplicity of scarcely-applied black and a brand-emphasizing hit of a single color, together with ample negative space and elegant type, appears to promise a soothing, honest and quality-driven item. Delightful design work by Michael Nagy.
Clever Anachronisms in WW2 Social Media Posters
In perfect World War II propaganda style, these posters seem to put the value of contemporary communication conventions to question. Credit: Brian Lane Winfield Moore
Wonderfully Graphic Caricature-Illustrations
Clean lines, bold forms and delicate, tasteful use of color make for humorous and delightful illustrations by Stanley Chow.