DESIGN BLOG

The King of Shaves Company Ltd has recently launched it's corporate website at www.thekingofshavescompany.com. It contains overviews on our entire range plus news pages, details on our sponsorship programmes and a downloads area for product images and press releases. The site is designed to be clean, functional, easy to read and navigate whilst being simple and cost-effective to update.

www.thekingofshavescompany.com

Apple showcased 20,000 of the most popular iPhone applications on a 'screen' constructed from several Cinema Displays that pulses in sync each time one of the apps is downloaded:

Photos and more info here.

Saw this great re-working of Don Mclean's American Pie on youtube.com:

Although not quite in the same vein, but equally spot on and even funnier (IMHO) was Tim Hamilton's Truth in Advertising (shown at Cannes in 2001) - NSFW:

And there was a follow up:

Designed in-house at King of Shaves, our new Travel Kit includes a Azor 'better because it bends' system razor, an advanced Azor Shave Gel and a post-shave face balm all in one hand luggage friendly kit.

King of Shaves in house-design team designed our new all-year-round gift sets. Smart looking, in glossy black packaging featuring the new Azor 'better because it bends' system razor and our award winning shaving gels, they are available throughout the UK from major retailers soon...

The Limited Edition Azor Wave has recently been launched into Boots stores throughout the UK. Designed in-house here at King of Shaves the pack features a striking take on the Union Jack helping to re-enforce the British design of the revolutionary Azor. The Azor itself features a unique blue and white colour scheme and is available for a limited time only.

Following on from the King of Shaves Azor for men we have now launched the King of Shaves Woman Azure for women. Packaged in the same recycled (and recyclable) materials as the men's razor, the design purposefully eschews the traditional pastel colours of female shaving for a strong, striking and on-trend gold and black design.

The Azure combines shaving comfort and performance via an internationally patented TST (Touch Skin Technology) elastomer skin bumper and pivot system. This allows the Endurium coated, super long-lasting blades to shave at optimum pressure against the skin whilst a larger soft rubber 'bumper' helps reduce risk of unwanted nicks and lifts hairs for a smoother shave.

The Azure's uniquely patented wishbone-shaped head design provides greater visibility when shaving and the ergonomically designed, lightweight handle allows for a superbly comfortable shave which effortlessly follows every contour and curve of the skin.

In September of 2008 we started looking at revamping the design of Angel Fish to coincide with the launch of some new additions to the range. Launched two years ago, the original range and design needed a refresh to take advantage of some of the innovative products our operations team and Fish Hairdressing had developed.

We took the decision to unify the packaging to give the range a consistent yet still striking colourway. The internal design team came up with a number of proposals which were worked through and developed. This included redrawing the logo to make it more feminine (less 'rock chick') and coming up with a new, sexy and confident 'angel' illustration.

The first three products of the new range (which can be seen below) have recently gone into Boots, the rest will follow later this year.

Not as good as Veet's, but still a nice example.

I know it's been done before (well, probably) but the image below caught my eye on my RRS feed for ffffound.com and I couldn't help but spend five minutes browsing through Vincent Bousserez's (for he is credited as the photographer) photo set of miniature people. Click here to see them all on flickr.com.