Phil your plate
Reviewed by Emily Gosling
It’s a moot point now that the last few years have seen an explosion in all things vegan and ‘plant-based’ (a term arguably used lightly, when you consider the ingredients in many no-meat, no-dairy, no-animal product alternatives). There’s vegan cheese that actually tastes nice, there’s mushroom and hemp ‘magic mince’, even vegan tuna. I’m writing this while eating a vegan Dunkin’ donut, purchased in an otherwise historically wurst- and wiener-heavy town in Austria. In short, it’s not hard to be vegan in 2023.
However, not everyone wants to be – and that’s totally fine. But whether or not you want to go the whole hog, there’s no getting around the fact that in this era of climate crisis, we all have to be making more conscious decisions about what we eat – what it’s made from, where it came from, and the implications of all that.
And the facts are, that consuming less meat is one of the best ways to lessen personal impact on the planet. That’s the ethos behind Phil’s Finest, a food brand that’s partnered with award-winning chefs to create products that pair fresh meats and vegetables into savoury chicken sausages and ground beef, and which claims to be ‘putting the “more” in omnivore’…
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Deezer by Koto, 2023.
The first Deezer logo was uninspired. Fine when it launched, but alongside the highly polished Spotify rebrand launched in 2015 it looked cheap. Tech-saasy Koto have dived in and done a lovely job presenting Deezer as competition with considering. Where the music you love comes alive is a simple idea, and wonderfully realised in symbolic form as a waveform heart. Seems so obvious, but I’ve not seen anything like it. Rendered with a ovals, there’s a modernist formalised quality to it that then ‘comes alive’ in motion. The motion behaviour is such a lovely touch, more heartbeat than music thump (the inter-changeability is a bonus) which really makes a human connection in an effortless manner. Lovely.
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Creatio ex nihilo
Reviewed by Emily Gosling
Branding agency Nihilo is more adept than most at shattering stereotypes – both in the work they make, and in terms of who the agency is, and what it’s all about. Founded by designer Emunah Winer and writer Margaret Kerr-Jarrett in Israel in 2021 and now based in Columbus, Ohio, the agency takes its name from the Latin term ‘creatio ex nihilo’ – meaning to create something from nothing.
Neither Winer nor Kerr-Jarrett went to design school or climbed up the ranks at a big-name agency before founding Nihilo; and it’s perhaps their unusual route into design that’s made their work so original and engaging. The first project they worked on together was interactive design and poetry platform Two Jewish Women, which aims to educate people about Orthodox Jewish women like Winer and Kerr-Jarrett, and challenging preconceptions about them…
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