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It’s easy to carry your lunch with our Rucksack-Coolerbag
Whether out in the summer sun or inside in winter with the heating turned up, it’s important to keep packed lunches cool, fresh and tasty. The Rucksack Coolerbag is designed to keep your lunch cool until lunchtime and is an ideal complement to the “Food For Thought” lunchbox for a healthy lunch.
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Keeps food cool until [...]
Empowering the People!
We are honoured that one of our products made it into a new book entitled “100 Products that Empower People”.
The book is by US designer and author Emily Pilloton, and includes all kinds of inspiring products including the XO & XOXO laptop, low-cost prosthesis, and even the Adaptive Eyecare we also worked on. We are [...]
London Design Festival
This week is the London Design Festival, and we are showing work at the Royal College of Art. It free to attend, and really interesting. Its part of lots of event organized across London. Check out the on-line Icon Design Trial Guide http://www.media-ten.com/3dissue/design_trail_2009-london/
Details of the RCA show are on Page 67.
The Olympics
Here at Concentrate we are thinking about the 2012 London Olympics and how we can help kids to be at their best both mentally and physically. We have some products ideas, along the lines of our “Food for Thought” Lunchbox that will encourage kids to take more exercise.
If you would like to find out more, [...]
New Design
From hoover dustpans to fold flat electric plugs, or from shoes that dispense seeds wherever you go, to mouse smuggling devices the Royal College of Art show is always full of interesting and sometime wacky design. We hope to work with one or two of the recent graduates.
I had a good look round and was [...]
Vision of the Future
Concentrate worked with Adspec to design reading glasses with liquid filled lenses, whose prescription can be altered by turning a dial on the side arm. These amazing glasses have been distributed in Africa, so that children can have their vision easily corrected and then can engage with the education system.
http://www.adlens.com
The specs were the subject of [...]
My Design Hero
I have had an inspiring week. Last night I went to a talk by Jonathan Ive from Apple (designer of the MacBook, iMac, i-Pod and i-phone). I was struck by how thoughtful and considered he was, in answering questions, and in how he explained his method of designing things. He was also incredibly humble, especially [...]
Seven Magazine
Marc at Seven Magazine conducted an interview with us to investigate the Dragon Den experience. Click on the image to have a read.
Jaw Ache
Just sent out a shipment of 6000 pre-chewed pencils. Phew – our jaws are knackered from all the chewing.
Nice Threads!
US on-line magazine Corduroy picked up the threads about our pre-chewed pencils and wrote about “pencils and lunchboxes re-imagined” – Nice.
