At Christmas time in 2021, the world felt like a dramatically different place from 12 months prior. It was a time to read the room and create a client gift that felt like an appropriate gesture for our family of client friends.

Taking stock of the year that was, the path we’ve travelled together but alone, Bitter Sweet was a gift to share, but a share of the feelings we had all experienced in different degrees, that bonded us even more deeply. The design concept needed to reflect the ingenuity that the pandemic had demanded of us and the emotional reaction to it. The approach was to share a taste of the year – literally - with a custom made chocolate that was purposefully Bitter Sweet – flavouring the lows and the highs, the bitter countered by the sweet. A visceral experience of the emotions we’d all tasted throughout the year.