Hasta La Ideas

This new packaging concept for cigarettes from recent UK design graduates Jennifer Noon and Sarah Shaw is in response to the British government’s controversial proposal for plain packaging, which purports that bland and generic cigarette packages devoid of company logos or art would make health warnings more prominent (which is not to say that the right kind of labels wouldn’t be just as effective…)

Noon and Shaw’s design changes the shape of the container into something that sticks out of pockets and is hard to get cigarettes out of—reminiscent of this design from last year. While this is certainly a 180° turn on conventional human-centered design where usage is paramount, we think it is actually represents human-centered design at its finest, putting the user’s best interests above their desires.

(more…)