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Top: Alice Chocolates
Middle Top: Mast Brothers Chocolate
Middle Bottom: Chocolate Scrabble
Bottom: Chocolate-Pencils

There is so much room in everyday objects for a little more narrative.

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Three of my most precious things. They are nothing spectacular to look at but hold an awful lot of personal narrative. I could never let anything happen to them.

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Hand Screenprinted wallpapers by Lizzie Allen.

Lizzie's designs are silly, humorous and detailed. Her wallpaper called 'Changing Guards at Buckingham Palce" mixes old-school British wallpaper floral patterns with some sweet scribbly illustrations of the busby-wearing gentlemen. Each print is unique due to the printing process.

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Jeff Harrison CD Packaging for Rethink.

I have a box (or two...) of CDs that were purchased a little spur-of-the-moment when I was younger. They are not a super-environmentally-friendly product and these days I think a bit harder about how i spend my money and the impact it might be having on the environment. If all CD packaging was designed to be more of an object than a container, and prices were a bit higher than maybe we'd only buy what we really wanted.

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Fashion label Sally Scott.

For her latest collection Sally decided that instead of taking the normal publicity route of 'pouting model wearing clothes', she would instead tell a short story about two characters (wearing the label) using film. Two girls move into a house, fix it up a little, decorate, wash the car and then look for work. The story isn't groundbreaking, but the film is beautifully shot, and the garments take on a life of their own. They become more than just fabric.

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"Stain" by Laura Bethan Wood

A set of teacups designed to improve through use. The project examines the assumption that use is damaging to a product.

The interior surface of the cup is treated so that it stains in predetermined places. The more the cups are used, the more the pattern is revealed.

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"For centuries, milk has been carried and stored in glass containers. Before milk bottles, milkmen filled the customers' jugs. For many collectors, milk bottles carry a nostalgic quality of a bygone age. The most prized milk bottles are embossed or pyroglazed (painted) with names of dairies on them, which were used for home delivery of milk so that the milk bottles could find their way back to the dairy for reuse. The color, picture, dairy, and condition all contribute to the value of the milk bottle." - wiki

milk bottle design by Julia Rothman for reform school.

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Shoot for *Another Magazine* Spring/Summer 2008
Photographer: Josh Olins

The combination of colour, shape and print, and the addition of quirky hats and scarfs, makes these outfits a little more descripitive of the wearer's personality.

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