Three years of making, refining and growing together.

We’ve been making ceramics for Big Dog Coffee for around three years now, so it was particularly good to be asked to produce a new collection for their latest location in Cardiff city centre.

For the new Canal Quarter coffee shop, we’ve made a range of different-sized cups to suit the coffees they serve, alongside our straight-sided plates and two sizes of bowls.

The collection has gradually evolved over the years we’ve been working together.

What started as a range of off the shelf handmade cups, plates and bowls has been refined into a really distinctive combination of a slick black glaze contrasting against exposed off-white stoneware.

Every piece also carries the Big Dog icon, giving the collection its own identity and making the ceramics immediately recognisable as theirs.

That’s something we particularly enjoy about working with hospitality businesses over a longer period. Rather than treating every order as a completely new project, we can refine the forms, finishes and details over time until the ceramics become part of the identity of the business itself.

And it’s fair to say you won’t find another coffee shop in Cardiff serving from cups quite like these.

We’re really pleased to see the latest collection now sitting in Big Dog’s new Cardiff home.