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Y water

Updated Feb 15, 2008

1st to recommend

4 people recommended this item

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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)

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The Tap Project

Updated May 10, 2007

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2 people recommended this item

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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.

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Speyside Glenlivet

Updated Nov 7, 2006

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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)

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De GRISOGONO Water

Updated Oct 9, 2006

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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)

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iLove

Updated Oct 3, 2006

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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)

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LifeStraw

Updated Sep 28, 2006

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8 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)

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10 Thousand BC

Updated Sep 28, 2006

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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.

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1Litre

Updated Sep 28, 2006

1st to recommend

5 people recommended this item

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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)

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Fred Water

Updated Oct 15, 2006

12 people recommended this item

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Since water is after all, well, WATER, bottled water merchands have to work extra hard to sell their own version of the water in a bottle (brilliant!) concept. for Fred, apparently it means being sold in a bottle that looks like a whiskey flask, but also hanging out at MySpace. Fred currently has 41 friends, not including Tom. After all, I wouldn't want to be Friend with a botle of water, it seems so, ephemeral...

And, at the risk of sounding dated, is this the same Fred that was too sexy for his shirt? (via notcot)

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Another Bloody Water

Updated Sep 26, 2006

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3 people recommended this item

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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)

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Antipodes Water

Updated Sep 21, 2006

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6 people recommended this item

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I love the bottle design, which reminds me of these vintage remedies. In fact the shape is inspired by old beer and sherry bottles from New-Zealand which is where this water comes from.

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Glaceau Smartwater

Updated Sep 8, 2006

61 people recommended this item

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Glaceau makes the vitaminwater, fruitwater and smartwater line of water. While smart water will not really boost your IQ in any significant amount, the bottle design and the taste is certainly very smart.

And since you can always have the marketing spin your way, they make a big deal about how their condensed vapor technique and additives (ie boil tap water and season to taste) is actually better than the random stuff you might find in water that escapes from the ground in let's say Fiji (plus who knows what the local fauna has done in that water?) at least they don't apply any other techno-voodoo to the water to make it smart, because no one likes water that is smarter than they are (via notcot)

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Bling H2O

Updated Sep 8, 2006

1st to recommend

7 people recommended this item

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Why drink water because it tastes good when you can drink it because it comes in swish limited edition, frosted glass bottle, covered in Swarovski crystals. Created by a Hollywood producer, because he thought that the water bottle you carry says a lot about who you are, and saw an opportunity to cater to the type of people who would want to be seen drinking from a Swaroski encrusted bottle. (via oO's very eclectic)

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Glacier by Philippe Starck

Updated Sep 8, 2006

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2 people recommended this item

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You can't tallk about designer water without talking about Phillipe Starck, who designed the water bottle for Glacier, right at the very beginning of the bottled water craze. Look at the elegant shape, and the ridiculously impractical bottlecap. I love it. (via oO's very eclectic)

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TyNant Spring Water

Updated Sep 8, 2006

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2 people recommended this item

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Available in the pitturesque blue glass bottle, or the amazing flowing form of the plastic bottle create by star designer Ross Lovegrove, TyNant tastes like, well, water. But when you can name drop the designer that created the bottle for you favorite water, that must count for something, no? (thank you google for all that information :-) ) (via oO's very eclectic)

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King Island Cloud Juice

Updated Sep 8, 2006

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5 people recommended this item

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Brilliant! a water called Cloud Juice, could only come from Australia. Australia's original inhabitants, known as Australian Aborigines, have the longest continuous cultural history in the world, with origins dating back to the last Ice Age. This however, has nothing to do with Cloud Juice water, which is rainwater collected in King Island, off the coast of Tasmania.

Sadly I didn't know this even existed while I lived in Australia so I can't tell you what cloud juice tastes like. The bottle design is average, but that name... (via oO's very eclectic)

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VOSS

Updated Sep 8, 2006

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7 people recommended this item

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Voss Water possibly has the best (and most pretensious looking) bottle design. The sleek norvegian cylinder of glass, the straight lines of the logo and the bottle cap, this is the perfect bottle to drink while staying at a boutique hotel in manhattan. On the plus side, you can easily refill the bottle with regular tap water, after you have finished sampling the crisp taste of the norwegian artesian original.

The only thing that could improve on the design would be to replace the plastic cap with one that would be carved from a single piece of birch. (via oO's very eclectic)

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Ed Hardy Structured Water

Updated Sep 8, 2006

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3 people recommended this item

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I bought a bottle of Ed Hardy water because of the tattoo image on the logo (see! good design works) and had a good laugh while reading the notes:

This is not ordinary (and presumably oddly shaped) water, but structured water, which is magnetically activated and bombarded with infrared light to produce hexagonally shaped water molecules, which are apparently absorbed up to 4x (four!!!) times faster than normal water.

Personally I loved the tattoo, which is printed on the inside of the label so you see it thru the diffraction of the (structured) water. (via oO's very eclectic)

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OGO Water

Updated Sep 8, 2006

8 people recommended this item

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I saw one for the first time in a pharmacy in Australia and couldn't help myself because the round bottle is so cute. The claim is that it comes with 35% more dissolved oxygen than non-oxygenated water, which means what exactly? 35 times almost nothing equals. a little bit more than almost nothing. also available in sparkling water and a red bottle

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Metromint water

Updated Jan 27, 2007

15 people recommended this item

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I bought a metro mint in berkeley last weekend, and I love the taste, minty, but without any added sugar, this is as if I dropped a altoids in a bottle of water (not quite as spectacular as the mentos + diet coke combination, but tastes a lot better)

From a design point of view the bottle is graphics is clean, but doesn't really transcend anything (via oO's very eclectic)

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SEI Water

Updated Sep 7, 2006

7 people recommended this item

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Clean design for SEI water, which is inspired by the shape of a flask.

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a glass of water

Updated Jul 18, 2006

1st to recommend

16 people recommended this item

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Who needs designer water being shipped from all over the world at great expense when you can actually get fantastic tasting water from a tap near you most of the time? If you really like that cute designer bottle and want to pretend you are driking water that was imported all the way from Fiji, you can just keep re-filling the same bottle over and over again.

And as an added bonus, tap water costs about 1:10000th time less than the average bottled water (via oO's very eclectic)

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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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