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Swiss Graphic Design: Geigy
Swiss pharma company Geigy (now Novartis) cranked out tons of drugs and tons of great designs to sell them during their time. The images above are from the book “Corporate Diversity : Swiss Graphic...
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TCHO Chocolate
I’ve noticed these high end chocolate companies springing up left and right over the past few years. The paper-made thing seems to be the prevailing aesthetic of retail chocolate branding; employing...
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Super 8 Packaging
The Watsonian posted some very nice Super 8 packaging. That XL55 type is amazing. Link Permalink | Comment On This Post (10) | Tweet This Post | Add to del.icio.us | Stumbleupon Post tags: argus,...
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Extinct Ammo
The always excellent Watsonian — who also brought you the Super 8 packaging — have posted these beautiful examples of vintage Kodak film packaging. Every time I see something like this the first thing...
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Geigy Graphic Design
Dwell has an excellent piece on Swiss design shop Geigy. The in house agency has such a rich portfolio of beautiful work, most for the medical industry. I particularly enjoy the packaging work. Grain...
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Graphis Packaging 3
Some excellent examples from Graphis Packaging 3. I can say without any doubt in my mind, that packaging design has declined significantly over the past 20 years. Take a look at the more recent...
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Kristin Agnarsdottir: Knoll Paint
Knoll paint! Sorry, it’s not real. These mock ups were made by Kristin Agnarsdottir for a package design class. Really amazing stuff, and I was just complaining about how bad packaging is these days....
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To-Genkyo
To-Genkyo is a Kyoto based studio specializing in product design. Their stated goal is to “make a small utopia of daily life” which I’d say sounds like a good plan. Among their innovative product...
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Dutch Packaging
Some great examples of packaging design by Dutch artist Louis Swart. Swart got his start as early as age thirteen and was quoted at that time as saying ‘I am striving not to become the grand old man...
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Ducats 1980s Milk Packaging
Tears of joy would stream from my eyes if this were under my tree Christmas morning. It is now that I can fully appreciate the simple solutions of such design—less is more. It just makes me sad to...
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CutLaserCut: We Make Your Ideas
Many of us artists/designers/musicians love dreaming about our ideas becoming a physical piece that you can hold, touch, gift or make available for others to have. I really appreciate the printers,...
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Weekend Inspiration: Invisible Creature
Invisible Creature is a Seattle based design studio comprised by brothers Don and Ryan Clark. From music packaging and band posters, to logos and identity, these guys do it all and they do it well, to...
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Weekend Inspiration: Leif Podhajsky
The amazing work of Australian artist and creative director Leif Podhajsky has been posted about here on the blog before, but I thought I would feature him again, this time as the subject of this...
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Weekend Inspiration: Hipgnosis
Pink Floyd - "Dark Side Of The Moon" (1973) As a kid, a lot of my time was spent either drawing or rummaging through my parents vast music collection. The latter becoming more of bed time ritual, as...
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Enter through the gift shop
I’ve just returned returned from a trip to both Munich and London, where I spent time with colleagues in both locations. Cosmic timing really, considering the London 2012 Olympics are on the horizon,...
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VHS Box Graphics
Sadly, VHS box design never reached the heights achieved by audio cassettes, but looking back they weren’t as bad as I remembered. This set comes courtesy of Hauk Sven Via Flyer Goodness Permalink |...
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