Design of the Week (No.15)

Stir-ring my imagination this week is:

(No.15) The Traditional Chippy Mug and Plates by Home Slice Design

I may have lived in Essex for five and a half years now, but despite my propensity to swear in an Essex accent, I still class myself as a Northerner. I grew up on the North-West coast, a hardy part of England, where the Winters are cold and the Summers even colder. 

Growing up, one of the things I remember with great fondness was Tuesday evenings. Me and r'kid used to go for our swimming lessons followed by a chippy tea. Now having burnt mega calories whipping up and down the pool we were in need of a good feeding. So desperate we were when we turned up at our local fish & chip shop, that the women who ran it would take pity on us and give us a 'chip lolly' to keep us going. For those of you not familiar with chip lollies, it was essentially one of those plastic forks you could pick up on the counter with 3-4 chips stuck on it. This was ace, and helped us survive the five minute trip home without collapsing. 

So I was pottering around on the net the other day and I came across Home Slice Design, a design team "on a mission to create refreshing products that celebrate the overlooked, everyday Britishness and unsung domestic heroes of our time." What particularly caught my eye was their chippy range, so I thought I'd share it with you. I'll let Eleanor and Steph of Home Slice Design explain it to you:

"Everyone knows you can't beat a chippy tea on a rainy Friday night, with lashings of salt and vinegar and picking at the crispy bits stuck to the paper- one of the greatest pleasures in life. The Chippy range was created to celebrate these moments as well as all things fried and all things British." 

An awesome mug, I'm sure I remember this motif in my local chippy!

There are those chip forks, used to great effect on the bottom!

Yum yum... mushy peas (left top)

A selection of some of their other plate designs

The mug retails at £15 and the plates are £25 each. Check out Home Slice Design's website for more details: http://www.homeslicedesign.com/

Thank you Home Slice Design, for bringing back such happy memories. I think I'll be making a small purchase ;-)