I love beer. But making beer was just a far off thought until the Brooklyn Brew Shop came along. It’s not that they made home brewing easy to do in a city apartment. It’s that they put some thought into the design of their packaging.

Walk into any store in Norway to buy wooden matches or this licorice-based lozenge and this is what you’ll see. The matchboxes come in packs of six, wrapped in cellophane. This is the most recent design, but I remember slight variations from when I first began traveling there in 1979. These are near perfect shades of yellow, red and black, in a bold combination not usually seen in 21st century products. 

As an openly enthusiastic moon worshipper, I tend to be pretty easily drawn to anything having to do with this mystical astronomical object. Hence it is no surprise that these ingenious ceramic glasses caught my eye a few weeks ago. Created by the Korean firm Tale, the Moon Glass is a beautifully designed vessel that displays a different phase of the moon depending on how much rice wine (or beverage of choice) has been poured into it. Available in black or white glaze, the interior of the glass is constructed with a custom curve which affects the perceived shape of the liquid inside as the level of the beverage changes. Lunatics!

I don’t know about you, but my iPhone seems to love losing power at a rapid rate. Every single day. Whether I’m using it to follow a routine at the gym or trying to find that hole-in-the wall dive bar my friends are at, I have to constantly unlock and check my phone. popSLATE might be the coolest solution to my problem.