Fortnum & Mason, for the fourth year, is featuring its Piccadilly House Advent Calendar with an eye-watering £ 190 price tag - and here’s the surprise - it’s empty of treats! Designed to simulate the wonderful experience of the store’s frontage, the calendar is made of wood, lights up and plays music. &M are encouraging shoppers to buy the calendar and keep it for life - suggesting that you can fill each little compartment with chocolates or treats of your own choice. Alterna

We’re delighted to have been involved for the third year of Ballantine’s True Music Icons campaign,  featuring artists who have ‘stayed true’ to their personality and style of music over the years. 2025’s editions feature both Kiss and Gorillaz, two disruptive choices, yet highly attractive to many Ballantine’s drinkers across international markets. Stay tuned for next year’s exciting editions - on the design deck as we speak!

Recently launched, an Adriatic Gin from Montenegro, soon to feature in the UK.   The bottle reflects the shape of a Fine de Claire oyster, with each layer of glass applied with close attention to detail. Oysters are at the height of elegance; they have an aura that encapsulate the true excellence of the ‘art de la table’ and take centre stage at the world’s finest gastronomies. For this reason, they make the perfect companion to - and bottle for - this premium gin. A wonderfu

The result of a five-year research and development programme and with more than 15 patents, could Tablì be the future of single-serve coffee in terms of both growth and adaptation to new consumer needs, within home coffee consumption? A tab made entirely of coffee, without plastic, aluminium, or even compostable packaging. No capsule, no shell - just pure, compressed coffee paired with a specially developed machine. Unlike conventional systems that rely on synthetic or recycl

…that’s the name of the sandwich from the ’90s Friends episode - the one with Ross’s sandwich, and a social media favourite among millennial sitcom-lovers, especially around Thanksgiving,  epitomising an obsession with holiday food and leftovers. That’s also the inspiration behind Heinz’s Leftover Gravy kit tie up with Walmart on-line, where, for the price of a jar of Turkey Gravy, shoppers would instead be sent a novel giftbox containing the standard jar and an empty squeezy

Lidl has created a new Advent calendar purposefully designed for those people who struggle with patience and would rather eat their chocolate all at once. 'The Day One Advent Calendar', has been made for those who can’t resist tearing through all doors on the first day. It follows consumer research commissioned by Lidl, which revealed that over half of Brits (53%) admit to eating more than one day’s chocolate at a time. Under-30s were proven to be the biggest chocolate offend

Craft beer giant BrewDog, forever innovating, has teamed up with family-run Mackie’s Ice Cream to launch a limited-edition Honeycomb Stout, named ‘Two Scoops’, inspired by one of Mackie’s most popular flavours. The limited-edition release is expected to strengthen both brands’ positions in their respective markets by showcasing their willingness to experiment and respond to evolving consumer tastes. BrewDog is constantly tinkering with Stout, eager to nibble away at Guinness’

The Magnum Ice Cream Company, the world’s largest producer, has recently announced a dynamic partnership with NotCo., designed to accelerate demand-driven innovation based on AI. So, you might have felt threatened as a designer - that AI would be stealing your job. Now, if you’re in the Product Development lab, AI is coming for you too! How does it work? - here goes - the AI capability calls on a huge dataset of food and consumable properties, and based on a given brief, uses