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Place your bladders in the locked and upright position
via Rob Cottingham
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The Best in Coffee & Espresso Machines of 2009
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Venezuelan designer Enrique Luis Sardi has teamed up with Italian coffee company Lavazza to create a master piece of green design: Cookie cup.
First you drink the coffee, then you eat the cup! Brilliant. And perhaps many of us have thought of something like this at some point, but they did it!
“The cup is made of pastry covered with a special icing sugar, which works as an insulator, and makes the cup waterproof hence allowing you to use the cup and then appreciate its taste.”
This goes back to 2003, but it is never late to celebrate such a great product.
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Coffee, Pinotage? Coffee Pinotage!
This post may read like a product endorsement. It is.
Tonight some kind person thrust a glass of Barista Pinotage into my hand. I put up little resistance (read: begged). My first glass of the night was, red, unknown. Not bad, but blurred into the mental archives labelled: unmemorable. This 2nd glass of Pinotage though was, well, blog-worthy.
If you’ve not had the pleasure of sampling a Diemersfontein Pinotage you’ve still got some wine sampling to do. The first time I had a glass (or 3) of this much fabled “coffee” wine was a cold winter’s evening at a good friend’s house and a slab of Lindt 80%. If the thought of eating (dark) chocolate with wine doesn’t grab you, I’m not surprised. I was blown away. Those deep chocolate flavours in that Pinotage are teased out by the Lindt. The wine snobs seem to pooh-pooh the idea - and I have previously fought back (see comments)
Meanwhile, back to the Barista Pinotage I had tonight. Apparently it was hand-crafted by the same wine-maker, Bertus “Starbucks” Fourie, who cooked up the original coffee Diemersfontein Pinotage. And boy has he upped his game (IMHO). It’s a rich, strong flavourful blend with a delicious chocolate aroma and after-taste. Judging by my “Platteresque” poetic post, the alcohol levels were on the high side too. Yum.
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“Given enough coffee, I could rule the world.”
I spotted this quote on the side of a coffee machine at a client’s office. Actually I’ve seen it often over the last few years of going there. Which got me thinking: it’s a good quote, works for the brand of coffee and even has humour. Heck, the idea even resonates with me, especially after a few strong cups!
So why was it bothering me last week when I saw it again? I think it has something to do with brand laziness.
Someone at the agency or the coffee company liked it for it’s humour and signed it off. But unlike a good timeless wise quotatation - humour, especially when you see it daily and extended over a 2 year period just isn’t funny anymore. Would it have been better to use a timeless quote, or to skip the humour, or to skip the quote altogether?
But the designer (or the client) would have insisted on “putting something” on the side of the machine. So it’s either some squiggles, or a logo, or a stock photo of a happy couple drinking coffee. Or a quote :-)
You can see how the brand laziness creeps in right from the get-go. Then it dates. And changing it is costly. And it dates some more. And if you leave it up long enough, eventually it’s like wallpaper, not noticed. Perfect, no complaints.
What would Apple put on the side of an iCoffee machine?
Yes, I thought so too.
