Microwave Meal Container

Plastic base trays sealed shut with foils

and plastics 

Liquid Level Indicator

Programmable Liquid Container

Allows the user to choose 

Dispersion

Capsule Pill:

When the pill reacts with the 

natural acids in the stomach 

the gelatine capsule degrades 

and the drug inside disperses. 

Glow Sticks:

Like capsule pills the chemicals inside 

the vile when it is snapped open 

disperse and react with the chemical 

on the outside.

It may not be the best concept to be running around putting volume regulated ethanol filled capsule pills in drinks or indeed straight into your system, but the point of this post was to challenge the conventional way an alcoholic drink is mixed with a soft drink and how a regulated amount can be added more easily.

Pill Packaging

The end part is most relevant:

Liquid Containers

Re-usable contact lenses come in plastic 

resealable containers with solution:

Single Use contact lenses come

 in foil sealed packs:

How They are made

Ok the guy is a little bit creepy but 

the process of securing the Viles at 

the end is useful:

Little kids paints are stored in mini 

translucent pots with resealable 

flip top lids:

Controlling Addiction

Smoking is being controlled by prescribing substitutes:

Heroine is controlled by:

Its interesting to note that something that comes in liquid form (even pharmaceutical liquids as serious as morphine and methadone still require it); shifts the responsibility of regulating the amount from some sort of CNC machine - with a very high tolerance on quantity control - to and incredibly dangerous user measured format where the is potential for grave human error. 

What do we have to do to slow down the mass suicide Britons are inevitably committing? Limit the amount of alcohol sold? Have dosages of alcohol? Prescribe it?...

Abram Games

Maximum meaning, minimum means.


A prime example of the kind of designer i want to be. Extremely literal visual representations of issues. Exceptional man. Beautiful work.

Well are you?

Are you ready to alter your destiny

Saw this a few weeks ago when i was walking around Aberdeen. It was in an odd place, on an old wall behind some trees. I watched as a few people walked past it while I waited to take a photo (so that i didn't look too much of a weirdo climbing into random bushes and taking photos) and no one gave it a second glance....

Stuck with me ever since.

Why the hell

Has a child's drink been allowed to be packaged like an adult bottle of sparkling alcohol!

Kids grow up too fast, this sort of thing should not be encouraged. This is a horrible message to send to kids; "oh you need the grown up fizzy stuff at parties to have a god time" makes me sick.

Dosage

Alcohol is a drug. Many other drugs have prescribes dosages, so how are they regulated and presented?

In pre measured sachets 
[Heat welded plastics]

Much like milk you get in tea rooms etc.

And Old School sweets like Sherbet Sticks

As well as sauces

And good old Capri Sun

By measuring

But you already get things like that for drink in 

bars pubs and clubs: and no ones going to want 

to use one at home or at a party...

Capsules and pills

Most drugs are inside soluble capsules then protectively packaged 

or in raw pill form and packaged in the same way

Chewing gum has also been packaged in this manner which can 

be dangerous if you get them mixed up

In syringes

I think it's interesting to note that if alcohol had to be injected (safely and on a controlled manner and all that jazz). Would you still do it. People say that drinking is more socially acceptable than smoking because you don't have the same intrusive visual or physical effects. In the interviews i conducted when we were speaking about drugs every single person said they would never go as far as injecting a drug. Someone else also said they believed it was more socially acceptable to smoke than take drugs because you don't look twice at someone walking down the street with a cigarette in their mouth but you would if they were injecting something... So if alcohol was injectable, would you do it?

Liquid Packaging

Reminds me of the ice-poles you used to get when

 you were little that were all strung together and then 

the top bit like a twist and squeeze bottle

What we're up against

Petit Coeur – Luxury Wine Glass

Mind = Blown.

It doesn't look so much like a wine glass as it does a decanter. House and dinner parties are becoming more popular these days (along with bring your own bottle schemes) and often at home you pour larger measures that those that are sold in pubs, making it more dangerous to pour your own drink rather than receiving a regulated amount when having a drink in a pub/club/restaurant/bar etc. could be the possible area of focus!

The "o-meter"

Pretty smart little concept. Does not nag; simply informs.

http://www.thabto.co.uk/ometers.html

Just a few

At the end of the day is still dangerous. 

My desk. 10 cans: Way over my limit for the week, never mind on one night...