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Work, articles, studios and categories across the archive.

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…closures. A folded-paperboard structure whose engineering is visible rather than concealed. A bottle and cap that are the same plastic for recycling reasons and therefore the same visual tone…

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…building something rare: a skincare brand that operated more like a design studio. The amber bottles. The literary references on every wall. The stores that felt like they belonged in an architecture…

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…Aesop Distinguishing move: Restraint as the brand's primary asset. The apothecary amber bottles and minimal black-and-white labels have remained essentially unchanged for 35 years. Steal…

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…illustration. Nothing about it says "wellness" or "hydration" in the language that the bottled water category has established. Everything about it says "we would rather be interesting…

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…has been redesigned dozens of times, but the Spencerian script, the red, and the contour bottle have been treated as inviolable. Apple has evolved its packaging from colourful polycarbonate…

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…products they contain. Primary packaging is the product's immediate container: the perfume bottle, the watch case, the cosmetics compact. Here, packaging and product merge. An Aesop hand…

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…carton of oat milk can function as an editorial object, then so can a cereal box, a shampoo bottle, a bag of flour, a tin of beans. The entire supermarket is, potentially, a library. Every…

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…threshold. Instead, there is a room (specific, considered, quiet) in which rows of amber glass bottles sit on surfaces made from materials that belong to the building or the neighbourhood: reclaimed…