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Category Archives: Wine, Beer, & Spirits
Absolut Unique, Gutenberg would be proud
In 1440 Guttenberg celebrated moveable type, in 2012 Absolut Vodka celebrates moveable design! It only took 572 years for the folks at Absolut to find a way to go beyond the holy grail of the printing and design industries . … Continue reading
Absolut Blank
A twist of art, with a dash of commerce, has always been the recipe for cocktail magic at Absolut. The bottle has been one of the most iconic examples of the possibilities inherent in strong linkages between package and brand. … Continue reading
Posted in Beverages, Design Criticism, Packages in Art, Wine, Beer, & Spirits
Tagged Brand Design, Branding, Design, Graphic Design, marketing, Package Design, Packaging
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Buried Treasure
Package design is not a particularly ancient profession, and yet occasionally we are reminded that some pretty old stuff can be found in old foundations, landfills, and in one case off the coast of Aland Island in the Baltic Ocean. … Continue reading
Champagne is lightening up
There are few package structures that are more iconic than a great French Champagne bottle. But even icons evolve. Most are heavy 900 gram (about 2 pounds) descendants from the original bottle design by the Benedictine monk Dom Pérignon in … Continue reading
Posted in Beverages, Environmental Packaging, Wine, Beer, & Spirits
Tagged Design, Green Packaging, marketing, Package Design, Packaging
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Glassphemy! A visceral and psychological recycling center
Recycling is so boring! Or so says David Pelt a developer who has just built a new kind of recyling place, along the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn. Based on the video it seems like a great place to recycle your … Continue reading
Cream Ale, AIGA Archives and Life
This post started off as a simple recommendation to try the wonderful new AIGA design archives. It was going to be a supportive but bland description about the great new interface, the elegant look and feel, the intuitive visual search … Continue reading
Posted in Design Criticism, Design Practice, Wine, Beer, & Spirits
Tagged Design, Graphic Design, Package Design, Packaging
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Colorado brews up tradition and technology
In the past, beer didn’t travel far. In fact, up until the middle of the 20th century, it’s likely that the beer you drank was brewed within a few hours drive of your home or pub. Coors is bringing back … Continue reading
IRI’s Top Ten New Product Launches of 2009
People don’t shop at websites like dieline.com or lovelypackage.com. If we did the world would be a very different, and lovelier, place. The reality is we shop at Walmart. Where things are, for better or worse, a bit more complex. I’m … Continue reading
Posted in Beverages, Design Criticism, Design Practice, Food, Wine, Beer, & Spirits
Tagged Branding, Design, Graphic Design, Green Packaging, marketing, Package Design, Packaging
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The package is occasionally a “fast culture” medium
In yesterday’s post I suggested that the package is, and should be, a “slow culture” medium. But on reflection I think there is at least one occasion, very brief and fleeting, when the package could be considered a “fast culture” medium … Continue reading
Burj Khalifa and vertical vodkas
With interests in both real estate and vodka, maybe it’s the Donald’s attitude on altitude that does it again, as Dubai trumps Shanghai. One of the first “big” events of this new decade was the opening yesterday of Burj Khalifa, … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Beverages, Design Criticism, Design Practice, Wine, Beer, & Spirits
Tagged Branding, Design, Graphic Design, marketing, Package Design, Packaging
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The Package Unseen 