Bombay Sapphire Glass - Botanical

The winner of the annual Bombay Sapphire glass design constest is inspired by the botanicals in their gin. If this is the case their shouldn't be much of a design at all. The Beefeater master distiller once told me that Bombay Sapphire is the vodka of gins... it's not got much depth to it because they hardly use any botanicals at all.

Anyway, we love the glass design competition. And this year's winner looks as good as ever.



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7 Deadly Sins Glasses

Holy hell as Scott would say. This is awesome!

Hamilton Design have created these brilliant 7 Deadly Sins themed glasses. I can barely express how badly I want a set. Druel...


Pride


Sloth


Wrath


Envy


Gluttony


Greed


Lust

If anyone is listening... can I have a set please?!

Via Boing Boing

Communual Glasses

From Jim Rokos via Notcot:








A brilliantly weird idea. A great way of encouraging communual drinking and a fun way to add some theatre to the drinking occassion. Probably a nightmare to clean though.

Glassware

The glasses above are very subtle but very cool: SAKURASAKU Glass

"It is the glass where the flower of the cherry tree blooms in the desk top with the phenomenon of the dew condensation which it occurs in temperature difference inside the air and the glass. By the fact that also the phenomenon which it occurs by the fact that you use not only shape and function is shown beautifully, in even the disturbance perhaps it becomes the important existence where the waterdrop which can be thought brings the small pleasure to usual life."

Inspired by finding some cool glasses, I've set up a glassware set on Flickr here.

The plan is to collect all the cool glassware that we all come across and add it to the photo set. It strikes me, as it probably struck Bombay Sapphire, that cool glassware can work wonders for brand experience. If we could run a competition to design the ultimate glass for Canadian Club and Ginger, or the ultimate Sauza shot glass we would get some great ideas and hopefully generate a lot of buzz.

Please send in links to cool glasses you find as comments on this post.

Anamorphic glasses

From Anamorphic Series

"The Anamorphic Cup is the first product to employ the centuries old visual play of the anamorphic cylinder.

The stainless steel cup has a polished mirror finish. The porcelain saucer is printed with distorted images or words. These graphics can only be viewed correctly though the curved, reflective surface of the cup. The image is indecipherable when the cup and saucer are separate.

The initial launch of the Anamorphic Series was in the form of a prototype salt and pepper shaker. It was first shown in 2000 by designer, Ross McBride, at the 100% Design show in London. The Anamorphic Cups were first shown as prototypes during Tokyo Designers Block 2003, and consequently became a retail product the following year.

The Anamorphic Cups are the first in the Anamorphic Series range of products. Future items will include a creamer and sugar dispenser, and drinking glasses."



As we've noticed before there's a Guinness version of this... Wouldn't it be fun if we could make some really cool branded glassed like this. It would make for a great piece of Ooze and would definitely be talked about!

Awesome Glassware

From www.to22.net via NOTCOT:

"To make a martini you will need a glass, gin, some dry vermouth, and, of course, an olive. While designing their unique martini glass, to22 decided to give greater importance to the olive. “The olive has become the signature element of a martini and, yet, it is treated almost as an afterthought.” The form simply developed from two conical elements with a hole in the middle. “ At first, we want to present an elegant, symmetrical object which has no bottom or top. It only becomes a glass when you plug the hole with an olive. Now, all of the sudden, this little green item becomes very important. After all, it is the olive that permits you to fill your glass.”

Also think it was shown on Tastespotting as well. This site is full of the most amazing links to cool stuff in the booze and food industries.

Clear Glass is better for the environment than coloured glass

From the Observer last Sunday:

"Crucially, recycling glass reduces the need for energy-intensive quarrying of silica and lime. For every tonne of recycled glass used, 1.2 tonnes of raw material is preserved. Besides, glass recycles beautifully precisely because it contains such simple materials. It can be turned back into jars and bottles using the minimum of energy except - and herein lies the problem - if it's green glass. Because the UK is a prolific wine importer but produces very little wine, traditionally more green bottles have been left sitting on the wall than we have use for. They used to be piled up in green-glass mountains and shipped to South America for reprocessing, but now they are crushed and used as aggregate in road building.

Granted, assisting in the expansion of UK motorways won't earn anyone an ethical halo - which is why wherever possible you should try and buy clear glass. In fact, there's a shortage of clear glass returned for recycling. Pubs, restaurants and bars could contribute some of the 600,000 tonnes of glass they generate each year, 80 per cent of which is chucked into landfill. The exceptions include the Strada restaurant chain and Young's pubs. Their glass is now recycled by an innovative firm, Smash & Grab (smashgrab.co.uk), which rescues the equivalent of 625,000 wine bottles from landfill each year."

So let's all make sure we use clear glass as a way of doing our bit for the environment.