As a designer, it is a strange world we live in. Fellow designers will understand my predicament. No matter I am, no what I am doing, I look at things differently. Everything has an attached question of why? Why did they decide to paint the Double Decker bus red? Why is that advert on the tube so drab?

So for all the questions we ask, I sometimes find myself asking the fatal question, why did they re-design that? It was alright before...

Take the Sherbet Fountain for example, who’s bright idea was to do away with the paper and replace it with plastic? I loved the fact that once the sherbet was finished you could eat the paper off the top afterwards because it was coated in sugary goodness! So what if the liquorice was sticking out the top and it was exposed kids prying hands – that was part of the interaction, the tease of what was inside.

So as I sit here, chowing down on a new age Sherbet Fountain (which took an age to get into) I ask the question, why did you change it? I liked it the way it was.

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