Studio Snack
Arts & Culture Podcasts
We’re Narcis Sauleda, a brand specialist and entrepreneur, and Lydia Thornley, designer, creative director and sketcher. Studio Snack was born from coffee chats that we kept wishing we’d recorded. So we did – as a five-minute podcast, just long enough to listen to over a cuppa. Each episode has a snack, some nerdery, an experiment and what it all tells us about our practice. Welcome to Studio Snack - a food podcast about design.
Location:
United States
Genres:
Arts & Culture Podcasts
Description:
We’re Narcis Sauleda, a brand specialist and entrepreneur, and Lydia Thornley, designer, creative director and sketcher. Studio Snack was born from coffee chats that we kept wishing we’d recorded. So we did – as a five-minute podcast, just long enough to listen to over a cuppa. Each episode has a snack, some nerdery, an experiment and what it all tells us about our practice. Welcome to Studio Snack - a food podcast about design.
Language:
English
Episodes
Fictitious Snacks
4/30/2024
In our April episode of Studio Snack, a road trip takes us to fictional snacks, we do some intergenerational nerdery along the way and we create some snack stories of our own.
Duration:00:08:44
Carrot, stick
3/27/2024
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.
Duration:00:08:04
Ampersandwich
2/28/2024
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.
Duration:00:07:09
Snack resolution
1/29/2024
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.
Duration:00:07:16
Out Takes and take aways
12/15/2023
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!
Duration:00:04:51
Circular snacks
11/30/2023
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.
Duration:00:08:17
The international hedgehog of cheese
10/31/2023
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.
Duration:00:06:40
Studio snacks for studio dogs
9/29/2023
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.
Duration:00:11:16
A snack with a twist
8/31/2023
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.
Duration:00:09:33
Grow your own snack
6/30/2023
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.
Duration:00:07:27
Picnic
5/30/2023
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.
Duration:00:06:32
Chocolate
4/28/2023
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.
Duration:00:05:35
The well-travelled snack
3/31/2023
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.
Duration:00:05:21
& another thing
2/28/2023
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...
Duration:00:05:31
Broken Biscuits
1/30/2023
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.
Duration:00:05:40
Studio Snack: Selection Box
12/19/2022
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.
Duration:00:04:05
Studio Snack: Bara brith
11/5/2022
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.
Duration:00:04:33
Studio Snack: Fig rolls
8/22/2022
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.
Duration:00:05:34
Studio Snack: Twice Baked
6/16/2022
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.
Duration:00:04:48
Studio Snack: The sound of Thinking
4/29/2022
April's episode comes noisy. We explore design with sound, and of course, we attempt to find out what is the noisiest snack.
Duration:00:07:25