This one happened to fall into my lap via the always-insightful Randy Ludacer. Randy has a knack for digging up interesting and forgotten packaging designs, but this one totally knocked me back.
Have you ever seen branded lip balm? I’m not talking about Barbie products aimed at girls, but lip balm minted in the image of [...]
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If you’re on the hunt for packaging inspiration, as I have been lately, than head over to Veerle’s blog for the packaging inspiration series.
A number of these have been featured on The Dieline and other blogs, but if you haven’t seen ‘em, they’re brand new. Right?
And file the picture above under “I wish I’d thought [...]
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Design is like Science. Not because of process or the mentality of the designer being akin to that mad scientist, obsessed with his work, but because it is a linear practice.
In Science, there is an accepted truth. Then one day, someone will come along and disprove that accepted truth. Suddenly, everything that came before [...]
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Now you can really show your love for your candidate.
PracticeSafePolicy is selling both Obama Condoms and McCain Condoms, branded with the face of each candidate and appropriate cheeky slogans.
The only question in my mind: why? Normally, I’d approve of expanding any political metaphor to the arena of fast-moving consumer goods, but in this case it’s [...]
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Today I got my copy of the Pentagram Black Book, which made its way around the blogosphere a few weeks ago. I, being not that important, only received one because I was quick enough to email in and request one. Lucky me!
Plain brown cardboard, perfectly sufficient. And not in a huge box like Amazon.
Celophane wrapping [...]
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Marks & Spencer, the supermarket, has exclusively carried their own brand products for almost 50 years, but now they’re announcing that they will carry branded products like regular supermarkets. This is significant because Marks has implied, by carrying solely their own products, that their products are superior. From a branding point of view, the upper [...]
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I just finished reading Malcolm Gladwell’s latest book, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. And I wouldn’t be writing about it except for the fact that it was absolutely brilliant!
If you are at all interested in human psychology, cognitive recognition, subliminality, symbolism, colour theory, or biochemistry, (which as designers, I would hope you are) [...]
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