Studio Snack

For our March episode, we've been on the trail of the Easter bunny and found some carrots. Bit too healthy? Don’t switch off yet! We have unexpected nerdery, luminous experiments, design insights – and measuring a run in carrot cake.

In our February episode, we discover that the root of the word company is breaking bread, we delve into business lunch history, do typography with toast, monoprint with Marmite and make an Ampersandwich.

In our first Studio Snack of 2024, Snack resolution, we do Veganuary. We chat about accidentally vegan snacks, Pythagoras and plant-based food made to mimic meat, we try out two recipes and we ask what it all tells us about design.

Making Studio Snack, we always learn something that we can apply in our creative practice. So, for this latest episode, we have put together our take-outs – or best bites…

But every episode also brings us some laughter, usually taken out from the final edit, so we bring you the year’s out-takes too.

We hope you enjoyed season 2 of Studio Snack – thank you for listening! See you, or rather, you’ll hear us, in 2024!

This month is all about circular snacks – food celebrating waste. We look at the surprisingly international story of a classic tapas dish, we hear from a chef, we explore new kinds of food enterprise and we use waste as an opportunity to get creative.

This month’s episode started with a question. Does cheese taste better when cut into cubes? That’s sent us on a wheel of research about food and design – with a diversion to a classic 1970s party snack.

In our September episode, we ask a four-legged studio mate how dogs choose snacks, we find dog treat history in our creative neighbourhood and we consider who packaging is actually for.

This month, we bring you fast facts about a slowly-made snack and compare the knotty processes of pretzel-making and design. Grab a pretzel and take a fresh look at its well-known shape with the latest episode of Studio Snack.

Our June episode is Grow your own snack, via historical trends in allotmenteering, forage, what growing things teaches us about design process and the most impractical piece of packaging Lydia has ever mocked up. Harvest a snack, pour a cold drink and listen to this month’s five minute food podcast about design.

May is here, bringing the beauty of spring and the perfect picnic weather. Join us as we explore the history of the sandwich and how picnics evolved from indoor events. Lydia and Narcis recorded the latest podcast episode on location.

Grab a blanket, a scotch egg, and tune in to our Picnic episode.

April has been Easter month and that means chocolate. In this episode of Studio Snack we have history and branding nerdery, we try our hand at chocolate sculpture and we chat about what this all means for our design practice. Grab a hot chocolate or your favourite chocolate snack and have a listen to our latest five-minute podcast.

In this episode, we look at snacks that are quintessentially English (Or are they?), we report back from a field trip to our new favourite museum and we look beyond the obvious for our creative work. Grab a cuppa, butter a scone and listen to this month’s studio snack.

In the February episode of Studio Snack, we look at added value by way of coffee biscuits, latte art, and not one but two experiments...

In our first episode of 2023, we talk about broken biscuits via factory work, biscuit Kintsugi, Catalan design and the value of scrap. Grab a cuppa and a biscuit (broken or not) and join us for a five-minute Studio Snack.

In our seasonal Studio Snack podcast, through traditional biscuit selection boxes, we chat about the Victorians, snack behaviour and what leftover biscuits tell us about the best bits of design.

In this episode, we explore snacks for getting the flavour of a place, as a taste of home, and we discuss what ingredients tell us about design.

In the new episode of Studio Snack, we talk about fig rolls, snacks with substance. We trace their history all the way back to ancient Egypt – and we discuss what they teach us about having a great core to our creative work.

In this episode we explore the crafts, and what is it being a designer today versus back in the day. Experimenting with a biscuit that once was used as a postcard. Listen to this episode to know more.

April's episode comes noisy. We explore design with sound, and of course, we attempt to find out what is the noisiest snack.

In this episode we talk about growth, what it means to us as creative businesses – and we explore exponential growth by way of doughnuts.

Our first episode starts with the classic studio snack: biscuits. We’ve found some facts, baked some typography – and there’s an experiment... We’ll also tell you more about the series and what’s coming up. Now, grab a cuppa and a biscuit.