Butter, Cavemen, and Banana Milk

and turds, of course

Oct 07, 2025

Hello! Happy October 👋

Here is a roundup of my discoveries in design, product and tech over the last month 👇

Bose Butter Speaker 🧈

As someone that doesn’t use Instagram or TikTok, I missed the memo about this summer’s ✨butter‑yellow aesthetic✨ trend, but CNC agency (Coffee ‘n Clothes) cashed in with a viral marketing campaign for Bose. The foil wrap. The paper sleeve. I want to lick it.

Wibble-wobbles 〜

Check out this funky interaction design by frontend dev Jean Mazouni. I won’t spoil it. See it for yourself.

Jazz and Beauty 🥲

I’ve been sorting through my old camera roll photos, and came across this book that I saw in a charity shop many years ago. I’m thrilled to expose you to these horrors too.

Banana Milk! 🍌

As mentioned last month, I am an alt‑milk drinking, stubble‑faced, standing‑desk MacBook Man. So of course I love FaceFaceStudio’s excellent work on… Banana Milk!

Notice the details — I love how the playful and retro aesthetic brings friendly warmth to the packaging, with some handwritten/wonky flavour names. The colour coding lets people distinguish the flavours, and the overlapping of the pattern and text differentiates the product when seen on a shelf.

Grug 🪨

Clients love overcomplicated briefs. Design manifestos often promise simplicity to solve this, but most fail. Then there’s Grug.

Grug.design is an LLM hooked up to a delightful set of design principles, all of which make for an entertaining read. Grug delivers everything in simplistic caveman speak, distilling complex frustrations into relatable and straightforward answers. Lovely if you’ve been dealing with a lot of business lingo recently.

Finally, turds 💩

While you’d think that toilet roll isn’t the best branding brief, it has all the components for something creative. Otherway’s work for Naked Paper looks like it was great fun to work on, and it contrasts the jazzy/bright branding you’ll see from competitors in the premium-butt-wiping category.