January 30, 2010
New Ways of Reading
How clever is this? This is a nice little product from what looks like a nice little company called twelvesouth. I love it for personal use because you can hide it away if you leave it at home... and there it shall lie safe within your library. Now, aside from it being well made, it's also a really nice price (considering how much interesting laptop bags go for these days). Pretty good out-of-the-box thinking on this one if you ask me!
January 22, 2010
Newbies
I'm always paying attention to refreshing things being posted out there and saw these newbies this morning and thought I'd share them along.
This wine label (made by an experienced labelmaker) was screen-printed and named after the country’s international phone code. The font is based on the one used by the Bulgarian Post in the 1960s. A selective transparent UV matt varnish was applied on the pattern of circles around the logo against a glossy background--and then a transparent puff-up varnish on the +359 logo to create the appearance of wave lines. The label is also bordered with a glossy hot foil stamp and there are some tiny hot foil dots around the logo as well. Turned out really fun looking!
I found this label's technique interesting too. It was a seasonal greeting of spiced mulled wine made for clients and friends from a design firm over in London called Buddy. Their Christmas wishes were pad printed matt silver directly onto the bottle glass (the design being suggestive of measuring jug graphics). The concept went: the more you drunk the merrier the message. Very festive, indeed!
This wine label (made by an experienced labelmaker) was screen-printed and named after the country’s international phone code. The font is based on the one used by the Bulgarian Post in the 1960s. A selective transparent UV matt varnish was applied on the pattern of circles around the logo against a glossy background--and then a transparent puff-up varnish on the +359 logo to create the appearance of wave lines. The label is also bordered with a glossy hot foil stamp and there are some tiny hot foil dots around the logo as well. Turned out really fun looking!
I found this label's technique interesting too. It was a seasonal greeting of spiced mulled wine made for clients and friends from a design firm over in London called Buddy. Their Christmas wishes were pad printed matt silver directly onto the bottle glass (the design being suggestive of measuring jug graphics). The concept went: the more you drunk the merrier the message. Very festive, indeed!
January 4, 2010
The Junk That Gets Made
I was going through my email and found this. Totally forgot to post it from way back last spring when my best friend was visiting me from Hawaii. She and her husband stayed at this old hotel in Kenmore Square and in the room was this hilarious, unforgettable bar of soap. I think we gawked and examined it for an hour because none of us had ever seen such BAD DESIGN!
What we couldn't figure out was: on the packaging it boasted about being "green" and saving the environment, blah, blah, blah, yet the waste it produced by the expensive die cut of the box and eliminating the center of the bar of soap itself! "Waste reducing"... hardly.
Whoever thought it to be clever to die cut a hole in a small bar of hotel cheap soap so you can put 3 fingers through it?? I wish my clients were so care-free with their budgets to allow such madness... for I could put it to much better use.
What we couldn't figure out was: on the packaging it boasted about being "green" and saving the environment, blah, blah, blah, yet the waste it produced by the expensive die cut of the box and eliminating the center of the bar of soap itself! "Waste reducing"... hardly.
Whoever thought it to be clever to die cut a hole in a small bar of hotel cheap soap so you can put 3 fingers through it?? I wish my clients were so care-free with their budgets to allow such madness... for I could put it to much better use.
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