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MICE 2013 will bring together the World Barista Championship, the World Brewers Cup, the inaugural Global Coffee Review Symposium and Australia’s largest dedicated-coffee trade show, for a once in a lifetime event.

Hosting the World Barista Championships and World Brewers Cup, the MICE2013 will be the culmination of decades of hard work that have seen the Australasian industry develop what is now being recognised as one of the strongest specialty coffee scenes in the world.

Thanks to coaching I am incredibly lucky to have travelled half way across the globe in order to aid the Spanish Barista Champions 15 minute presentation.

Months of concepting, considering, creating and coffee tasting leads to one coffee, fifteen minutes, one trolley, seven judges, twelve espresso based drinks and countless hours of stress. This is what a Barista Championship consists of, and all in order to have a chance to convey an idea about a coffee.

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And wish Jordi Mestre well.

Dunne

Dial A Coffee

“Rotary Dial Phone merged with Arduino. Dial the # of cups you need, and the machine does the rest. Using the simplicity of a Hario V60 enables this beatiful and traditional experience.”

Nice little concept, I like how it opens up the process for your brewing pleasure. 

Dunne

Pirate Royalty Card

Here at DunneFrankowski we decided to create a card system which takes advantage of the fact that most loyalty cards are stored within the depths of your wallet, purses and handbags and never see the light of day again. 

We personally find the loyalty card system a coup out for genuine customer rapport and relationship building. If you can reach into your card holder and pull five or more cards, we see it as only a highlighter of how varied your loyalty actually is. 

We decided to create this cute little stamp which sits happily on any card converting them into a card you can use freely at Protein By DunneFrankowski. Feel free to take this card back to the original outlet and test their reaction to weather they value your loyalty or not. 

Pirate Loyalty at DunneFrankowski, any card will do. 

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Tom Metcalfe

Bean to Cup

 To achieve genuine sustainability, products must not be temporary or transient.  “My philosophy is to create beautiful pieces of elegant simplicity – which not only have longevity but true lasting value to the user.  My Coffee Maker is designed with this in mind.  It’s a multi-sensory product that is finished in appropriate materials that should endure whilst being enjoyable to use.”

Dunne

Timeless Design

Peter Schlumbohm 1896 – 1962 

German inventor, best known for creating the Chemex Coffeemaker. In a eulogy for Schlumbohm shortly after his death in 1962, the notable design author Ralph Caplan described the typical Schlumbohm invention as “a synthesis of logic and madness”. Caplan, like hundreds of thousands of Americans, was particularly fond of the Chemex Coffeemaker, describing it as “one of the few modern designs for which one can feel affection as well as admiration.” The Chemex was also one of the few products from any designer or inventor of the time to achieve a truly iconic role in popular culture, becoming part of the permanent collections of art and design museums, including New York’s Museum of Modern Art.

 A Time Magazine article from November 1946 quotes the ebullient inventor as saying, “with the Chemex, even a moron can make good coffee.”  

Peter  Schlumbohm for me was a visionary, he saw aesthetics and functionality merging harmoniously creating items which were desirable to all. More importantly his choice of materials are timeless, raw, natural and clean. Design that was created over 60 years ago, still stands out, and would look at home on any table or bar of modern establishments such as NOMA,  Alinea and The Avairy . Nothing about his designs said cheap, and yet they were relatively inexpensive and attainable. There are not many designs, items or products today which can hold my attention and respect as much as what Schlumbohm created. 

Look Back To See The Future

Dunne

Coffee Consumption 2012

As an industry we consume so much coffees but rarely do we consider it’s vast journey and our own preferences. A year ago I decided to collect ever single coffee sampled, tasted and consumed on our bar at Protein. Being a very small bar, with a tiny audience, I decided this is the perfect space to collect and consider our own preference in selecting the coffees we choose to offer to our customers. In October this year we began to compile the coffee bags we had accumulated during our first year as a multi-roastery coffee bar. What started as a basic visual map of coffee bags began to quickly develop into something so much more. With the help of the data visualizing agency Signal-Noise, the above video was created.

A 365 day time lapse of the coffees we consumed during that period, focusing mainly on the varietals of the coffee as the over all accumulation.

For this year coming, organically the intention is to grow this map further via the mass network of specialty coffee roasters worldwide. I can already see the clusters of cafes and roasters from major cities globally take position on the future map, highlighting individual nations preference in varietals and origin selection. Looking forward to 2013. 

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Our One Year Anniversary exhibition is up in the gallery, and all prints are available for £50 as limited edition A2 giclee prints of 25.

If you can’t make it down to see the show, we’ve made a little store where you can browse all the artwork and purchase if the feeling takes you.

Featured image by Greg Eason

The Shelf At Protein

About 4 weeks ago I called on Bruno’s services as I knew this guy can put his hand to any process and come up with an intelligent, consider and efficient result. We were luckily enough to have his helping hand during the preparation of the UKBC London Heats hosted in Londonewcastle’s 23 Redchurch Street Gallery. 

As he knew us best, he understand the direction we intend to go in, style, concept etc, he was the best person for the job, for any job actually if you get to know him.  Introducing “The man who can” , Bruno Vincent . 

“So sitting and drinking unsafe quantities of coffee from Messers Dunne and Frankowski has paid off again.A little commission landed on my lap from the guys upstairs at Protein.They wanted a small showpiece shelf within the coffee shop where they could physically sell some of the products that they have available online.

The brief was to have something that was sympathetic to the current design but sufficiently different to separate it.

It also had to be easily removable, leaving the minimum of visible fixings on the wall.

So this is what I came up with.

As always, budget was a major consideration and the biggest cost, apart from my time, was always going to be sourcing a quality piece of wood. Luckily for me, but not for the proprietors, the Stoke Newington wood shop was having a closing down sale and had two contenders left in stock.”

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Coffee Education 

Just a reminder that our courses are back and filling up quickly. We’ve got only a few spots left of September and October so don’t miss out.  You can book them through Eventbrite.

Tasting Class

Hosted by DunneFrankowski 

October 13th, November 17th - 11:30 - 13:30

The tasting class in a fun and enjoyable experience which covers a flavour deconstruction, coffee origins, processing methods and their effects on taste. As well as cupping some great coffee’s. Perfect introduction for any coffee lover to the colourful complex world of coffee. Suitable for anyone. 

6 people max £35 

Basic Barista 

Hosted by Frankowski 

September 29th, October 20th, December 1st  09:30 - 12:30 

Suitable for both home and professional barista’s we’re going to cover grinding, extraction, milk steaming and cleaning. Along with a short history of coffee it’s origins and cultural significance. 

4 people max £60

Latte Art

Hosted by Dunne

September 29th, October 20th, December 1st  13:00 - 15:00 

Suitable for both home and professional barista’s or for coffee enthusiasts learn and understand the theory or milk and pouring techniques, as really it’s not as hard as it looks. Hands on guidance and logical techniques in order to improve any standard milk pouring. 

4 people max £60 

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Rob Dunne of Dunne Frankowski creates an irish coffee

Proud Irish-man Rob Dunne of creative coffee consultants Dunne Frankowski prepares and cups the perfect Irish Coffee at Protein by Dunne Frankowski.

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The Movement of A Bar

One of main design features of the Protein bar at 18 Hewett Street, was to create a neutral clean and clear space which could adapt and evolve with the space itself in order to keep it fresh and facilitate the ever changing gallery which houses a constant stream of events. 

This was achieved with the simple addition of a modular bar surface which in conjunction with the rigid trestle legs can be moved to any point on the espresso bar, and also the shelving  which runs from the door to back wall.  We aimed to keep function over form throughout the whole design process. We hope to see this implemented into the cafe world to keep thing clean and interesting, I’d rather see coffee of the future presented in a more neutral calming space than that of the traditional cafe interior, which at this point is a little old. 

Build executed by Dean Edmonds 

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DunneFrankowski with Dean Edmonds 

Nine Months ago now an idea seed was planted.

Six Months ago it sprung to life.

What will ever happening Next. 

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Barista 

World Barista Championship For those of you who love coffee but do not work within the industry. A barista competition is hard to understand. It’s funny how many times I have had long conversations with customers regarding why there is a competition, how it works, the rules, the judges, the cameras & the tension of it all. For any barista, this is it, this what everyone wishes for, aims for and wants to participate in one day. It’s rare to get to the worlds as only 54 countries currently compete. The more established a country is the larger the odds become, increasing its difficulty to represent your Nation. The easiest way to describe the event to a non industry based observer is, that it is like “Master Chef”. It’s a presentation, a conversation about a coffee to the customer, only in this situation the customer is a panel of 4 sensory judges, two technical an audience and many cameras. The response to an explanation often is “that’s silly”, my response is people who love what they do will always find a way to amplify it into a new level, it’s excepted the world over that people have Yoyo competitions, why not coffee.

Dunne

LaCimbali Stand London Coffee Festival 2012 

It’s been a busy month so we’re going to play catch up with what we have been up to.  The London Coffee Festival was on from the 27th to the 29th of April apart from teaching Lab sessions and judging the UKBC, we designed the LaCimbali stand which was located in the Hyde Park area. The 10 x 4 metre area was broken down into three sections, a bar, historical section and semi professional/home section.

The bar was set up with a WCE spec M39 HD machine and 6 Magnum on demand grinders showcasing coffee from UK based roasters HasBean, Square Mile, Union, Climpson and Sons, Monmouth, Nude,  guest espresso from Caffenation in Antwerp Belgium as well as some coffee from the UKBC finalists. 

The historical section was a vinyl timeline celebrating the companies centenary designed by Puck Studio. With a original Granluce machine brought in from Germany ,especially for the festival, splitting the stand between the bar and home machine’s. 

The lower counter home/semi professional area showcased the new Dafney machine and grinders and allowed consumer interaction with the product. 

The stand was made out of plywood in modular units and fabricated by East London Furniture.

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Coffee Home Brewing Products

We now have everything for your home brewing needs.  So whenever your in need drop by Protein by DunneFrankowski and say Hi.

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