who needs designer water? - a list by oO

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I have a perverse fascination with designer bottled water. To me it's the ultimate perversion from a product point of view (well until designer air is more prevalent) and at the same time a very valid exercise from a design a packaging point of view. The product being the same for everyone, how do you make someone want your water more than all the others? as they say, thirst is nothing, image is everything

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I drink a lot of water, everyday

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Y water

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Once I'm getting over the "organic" tag on the YWATER website (how do you make organic water?!?) I'm absolutely getting some bottles just because of their shapes, and the special connectors that transforms them into a construction toy.

the Y bottle, which was designed by Yves Behar comes in 4 flavors, for brain, muscle, bone, and the immune system. (via notcot)

Updated Feb 15, 2008

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The Tap Project

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Why do we prefer bottled water over tap? Tap has an image problem, and The Tap Project in New York is an attempt to solve that.
In some NY restaurant, you could buy tap water in this elegant bottle, with all proceeds going to the UNICEF fund to help children get better access to potable water all around the world.

Updated May 10, 2007

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Speyside Glenlivet

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This water is effectively the famous Glenlivet Scotch Whisky, minus the alcohol and other fermented crap that the distiller adds to it. Sort of the equivalent of a non-fat soy no foam decaf latte, but it tastes a whole lot better. (via oO's very eclectic)

Updated Nov 7, 2006

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De GRISOGONO Water

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As far as I can tell the only way to get hold of a bottle of De Grisogono water, is to get the THiNK FiT kit by Swiss jewelry maker De Grisogono. The kit includes a bottle of water, a silver plated jump rope, as well as silver plated 1KG and 2KG weights. (via notcot.org)

Updated Oct 9, 2006

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iLove

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iLove is a magazine with a built-in water bottle, or a bottle of water with a magazine. The tag line on the website says "refreshing, sassy, and cool, iLove targets the young, fashionable woman on the go" and I don't know if they mean the water or the content of the magazine. The mini-magazine is published in 6 different editions of 32 pages each and changes every month. The water on the other hand is nothing to write about, and seems to stay the same every month. (via oO's very eclectic)

Updated Oct 3, 2006

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LifeStraw

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14 people recommended this item

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To add a bit of perspective to this designer water collection, while we marvel at all the different ways water can be presented to us as a lifestyle product, there are billions of people, that not only can't afford a bottle of water on a salary of a dollar a day, but don't even have access to safe water to drink.

This is where Lifestraw comes in, as one of the products that was specifically designed to resolve that problem. Shaped like and oversize straw, the system works in realtime, which means that all you have to do is find water, put one end in the water, your lips at the other end, and drink potable water free of germs and other contaminants.

The lifestraw can filter 700 litres, or a single person's need for a year. (via oO's very eclectic)

Updated Sep 28, 2006

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10 Thousand BC

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While we wait for an entrepreneur to release the next level of water pretentiousness, which in my opinion should be morning dew collected from the petals of the himalayan dwarf rosebush, we can drink water harvested from a glacier in British Columbia.
According to the website, because research has shown (?!?) that water has a memory, the bottling is done to inspirational music. I don't know if this is pre-recorded music from maria callas, or if there is a chamber orchestra, precariously tethered to the edge of the glacier, with the sole purpose of entertaining the water as it melts.

From a design standpoint, the frosted glass bottle reminds me of the H2O Bling, minus the swaroski.

Updated Sep 28, 2006

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1Litre

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I like the added touch of an integrated drinking glass in the 1Litre bottles. The water comes from a ancient aquifer deep under the Canadian shield, so not exactly a fast renewing ressources, but since this is not a mass-market commodity water like Fiji it probably has minimal impacts. (via notcot)

Updated Sep 28, 2006

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Fred Water

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The legendary Fred! He's mainly available in urban centers and that's because he caters to a certain crowd. I do have to hand it to the company, their devotion to a unique idea is pretty cool: the name, an entire webzine dedicated to the lifestyle (fredspot.com), updates on FaceBook, MySpace, Twitter - you name it.

Move aside though, water lover coming through. Fred is a very low mineral spring water. There's not much in it. It's very low-key mostly, with about a neutral pH. This makes it a very smooth sip for most.

Maybe it's my over-sensitive palate but I find the scarcity of minerals overall highlights the ones that are there in higher concentrations. I taste either Magnesium or Calcium, which gives it a slightly metallic after-feel. Again, you may not notice this at all.

Bottom line: Smooth sipping, very neutral and low-key but in a good way (unlike the chemically proportioned Poland Spring). Aquaphiles may taste some salts (Mg or Ca). Very cool flask shaped bottle.

Updated May 25, 2009

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Another Bloody Water

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Do we really need another bloody water brand? Apparently yes, but at least this company from Melbourne has a sense of humour when it comes to packaging (via Rugenius on Notcot)

Updated Sep 26, 2006

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