Hasta La Creative!

Tired of being awoken by talk radio or the dulcet default chimes of your smartphone? Maybe you’d like a nice cup of Ethiopia Yirgacheffe instead?

The Barisieur is here to help. Or at least it will be when British designer Joshua Renouf gets it to market at an estimated price of £250 ($405 on our side of the pond).

The device “eases the user into the day with the subtle movement of stainless steel ball bearings that boil the water through induction heating.” Fancy!

It’s clearly a beautiful piece of functional decor, with a removable Corian tray, drawers for grounds and sugars, and even a cooled compartment for cream. Alas, my cat will likely have all of this on the floor by 2 a.m. on Day 1.

Via Design Milk.

Artist and barista Gabriel Nkweti Lafitte, who works at the Starbucks across from the British Museum in London, has been taking some pretty awesome liberties with the chain's "name on a cup" policy for dispensing coffee to customers.

Lafitte incorporates lucky customers' names into hand-drawn line art on their cups, and some of the designs—which are as inventive and detailed as anything I've seen out of a proper design shop—take him up to 40 hours to complete.

I don't know what his original system was for deciding who got special art cups, but right now he only takes requests (and he's swamped). Starbucks, which tells Metro U.K. "it's fantastic how he takes our iconic cup design and makes it his own," should just commission Lafitte to do a line of ceramic mugs before another company figures out that he's way too talented to be slinging iced coffees all day.

Check out some of our favorites below and a full gallery on his Facebook page.

The new campaign includes logos, packaging, products, a presence in digital and social media and advertising with the theme, “Say good morning to a good day.”

Le studio ACRE, basé à Singapour, a imaginé l’identité visuel pour la marque Yardstick Coffee. Toute une déclinaison d’éléments, du packaging au PLV en passant par le logo d’une grande cohérence, jouant sur les couleurs et les formes pour donner un ton chaleureux et coloré à la marque.

L’artiste japonais Yukihiro Kaneuchi a réalisé des motifs en utilisant du café dans des tasses. Le tout forme une scène onirique faite de fleurs, d’oiseaux, de papillons et d’une danseuse majestueuse qui se rencontrent tous dans un paysage circulaire. Plus d’images de ce projet dans la suite de l’article.

Les équipes de l’agence ukrainienne Reynolds and Reyner ont récemment imaginé toute la charte et l’identité graphique d’un nouveau café qui vient d’ouvrir à Londres. Des choix graphiques très chics et sobre pour « London House Coffee » à découvrir dans une sélection d’images dans notre article.

A Maxwell House International Café campaign aims for a humorous, romantic effect.

The New York coffee company Vassilaros & Sons is using a mock political campaign to promote its expansion into direct sales to consumers.

Vending machines have been developing unique personalities for some time. We've had generous ones, sadistic ones, patriotic ones. Now, we've got an exceedingly empathetic one. Check out the video below from a South African airport, where coffee roaster Douwe Egberts rigged up its vending machine with facial-recognition software to dispense free cups of coffee to anyone who yawned. It's a nice stunt that turned those yawns to smiles. The fittingly named agency behind it: Joe Public. Via Foodbeast.

Découverte de Storyboard, projet éditorial signé par Tumblr, qui nous propose une belle vidéo « Coffee Art Portraiture » consacrée à Mike Breach, barrista possédant un talent incroyable pour le Latte Art, cette technique permettant de créer des dessins avec de la mousse de lait sur du café. Plus dans la suite.