Thinking about this topic, I would love to say that the following illustration is incorrect…but it’s 100% true!

I saw this on a friend’s blog so figured I’d re-post it.

Often, I am in a situation where I help out friends at unsociable hours for no payment, but they seem happy to pay a stranger for doing half as much during office hours!

Click on the image below, watch it and then let me know if you’ve had similar experiences and if so, what do you do about it?

A series of fruit juice packages that have the look and feel of the fruit they contain, has been created by Japanese industrial designer Naoto Fukasawa.

As well as strawberry, banana and kiwi fruit (my personal favourite)  “juice skins”, Naoto Fukasawa also offers a “silken tofu skin” for a carton of soya milk.

I originally posted this last year on another blog, but thought they were definitely worth another look!

“I imagined that if the surface of the package imitated the colour and texture of the fruit skin, then the object would reproduce the feeling of the real skin.”

We all take money for granted, the way it looks and feels. But surley it doesn’t have to be that way?

Japanese designer Mac Funamizu has evolved representational aspects of icon-design into coin designs with each denomination’s shape representing their respective pie chart ratio.

Imagine how quickly a tourist could understand the value of each – as long as they have a basic understanding of maths!