1/2/2011 Report - Sunken Car Treasure & More

First Treasure Coast Sun Rise of 2011.Hard to believe that 2010 is over. Time flies.The weather is really nice and there were a lot of hunters out this morning. The cuts that were fresh a few days ago have gone stale and have been hunted. I'm sure there are some cuts that haven't even been worked yet - the ones that are a t distance from beach accesses or not in the popular hunting areas, but

12/31 Report - Conditions Upgrade - Happy New Year!

Cut Treasure Beach This Morning.I met Oliver Sudden this morning two times. The first was when visiting this treasure beach on the Treasure Coast. I was here a couple days before and there was nothing but sand piled deep everywhere, but this morning when I visited, Oliver Sudden, there it was - a big cut that went for about four hundred yards. The cut was two or three feet high.As we end the year

12/30 Report - Low Tide Hunting Around Old Cuts

Cut at Low Tide This Morning.A few days ago the beach south of Jensen Beach was eroded as shown in this photo. There were a lot of clad coins at this cut. One reader worked it a couple of days and took out a lot of clads. I visited the spot this morning to see what it looked like now that the wind had shifted. As you can see the cut is still there but there wasn't much to be found directly in

12/29 Report - $100 Coin & Hunting Strategies

Metal Detector Find.$100 gold coin? Nope! A hundred pesos. I'm sure you can see how it could easily be mistaken.I dug this one up years and years ago and remember the moment still. When I first saw the coin emerge from the sand in my scoup there were a few seconds when I thought it might be a $100 gold coin. That is why I still remember it I guess.I dug up another like it years later and still

12/28 Report - Seal Ring and Griding

Seal Ring Found with Metal Detector.I'm still hoping someone might have some ideas about the seal.As I mentioned some time last week, someone asked me what is the proper way to work a beach. There isn't any one right way, but there are a lot of strategies and methods that apply to different situations.The dry back beach that has not been affected by moving water for a long time is one situation.

12/27 Report - Beach Erosion Illustration

Cut South of Fort Pierce Inlet This Morning.I showed this cut a few days ago. The cut has been going up and down every few days.Just a few days ago the cut was about six feet deep. Today the cut was only about three feet deep.There is about three feet of new mushy sand over the previous harder surface, so most of the coins here are now down a few feet and out of detector range.When I arrived

12/25/2010 - Merry Christmas!

Wishing you the best during this holiday season in which we are reminded what is truly important in life.Here is my Christmas card to you.http://www.jacquielawson.com/viewcard.asp?code=2007134554829&source=jl999The best treasure is the treasure in your heart.Peace and Joy!TreasureGuide@comcast.net

12/24 Report - Christmas Eve 2010

View South of Sebastian Inlet Thursday Morning.Photo by Ken A.Ken says there were lots of shells but not much else.I do like the look of those dips.The remains of the Confederate gun boat Peedee are to be salvage from the bottom of the Peedee River.http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/12/21/confederate.gunboat/Place names are often good clues.View in Front of the Holiday Inn in Vero Wednesday.Photo by

12/23 Report - Side Scan Sonar

Side Scan Sonar Image of Wreck in 200 Feet of Water.That is one sharp image of a ship off Key West obtained by The Dare on a test run while preparing to head up north to find the “Lost Merchant.” The image and information was obtained via email from the Fisher organization.Someone asked me the other day how to properly hunt a beach. That is an interesting question. Unfortunately a good answer to

12/22 Report - Only two more shopping days.

Beach at John Brooks This Morning.Most of the beach that I saw this morning was not eroded. Here is a rather typical beach at John Brooks park. I liked the little run-off ravine created by the water running from behind the pile of new sand.Of course that means that the water was pretty high this morning. Unfortunately, it wasn't high enough to hit the back dunes at any of the places where I

12/21 Report - Silver Tumbaga Bar & Coin Auction

7 Pound Silver Bar for Sale on Ebay.The seller doesn't tell where the bar was obtained. It has some nice markings on it. Maybe you can identify the source from the markings.I received a couple of emails yesterday that included a little information that I'll pass along. First, Mark E. says that he was picking up flakes of iron in front of the McClarty Museum that the museum personnel thought

12/20 Report - Gorget(?) & Seminole Information

Photo of Gorget? Found by Metal Detector.Yesterday I mentioned a metal Seminole Indian find. Here is what might be a gorget. I don't know for sure what it is, but in my opinion that is one of the best suggestions that I've heard so far.It is about three inches across, from point to point, and was found in an area that would have been long inhabited and where battles took place up into the early

12/19 Report - Spindle Whorls & Jupiter Inlet

I was browsing through eBay last night and noticed an object that reminded me of the small stone cylinder that I showed in a post a few days ago. The object that I saw on eBay was a Precolumbian spindle whorl. That is something that I didn't know anything about.With my curiosity aroused I did some additional research on spindle whorls and found that they were made of a wide variety of types of

12/18 Report - Alexander the Great Gold Coin

350 BC Gold Coin Found With Metal Detector.My research seems to indicate that this one is from around the time of Alexander the Great.I guess it is a good time to remind you to keep your good finds in a bank safe deposit box. Don't keep anything good at home. I might have shown this one before. I forget. You can find all kinds of coins on the beaches of Florida. This is a really old one. It was

Daily Dairy (Student Work)

Designed by Kim Hei Ip, a design student at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.

This is a brief that required us to create a cooperate identity for the Dairy company, including the brand name and a whole range of packaging. The brand name is called “Daily Dairy” I try to create the logo by using the letter “D” from Daily Dairy. And adding the symbol beside the letter D like this :D ;D. So as to create a happy and healthy feeling. For the packaging design, there is Cheese, two size of Milk, Milk bottle, Condensed Milk and butter.

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Re-Pack

Designed by H-57 Creative Station, Italy.

Re-Pack Project - Recycling existing packaging is a way to produce and pollute less. The more you recycle, the less you have to dispose of. And the better it will be for planet earth.

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Queen Mary Tea

Designed by Niedermeier Design, United States.

Queen Mary Tea began as an upscale boutique cafe where patrons could enjoy full leaf teas from around the world while being immersed in a Victorian-style ambiance. Now they were looking to expand their customer base by selling premium tea products in high-end spas, hotels, and restaurants. As the name suggests, celebrating England’s rich tradition of midday tea is what first inspired the creation of this gourmet brand.

Carrying this original vision through to their packaging would be essential to achieving consistent brand representation. New flavor-based iconography and a distinct color palette were used to distinguish the various tea groups and helped clarify customer choice. A revised logo designed specifically for use with embossing and foil-stamping would allow for that extra special touch on thank you cards, invitations and other brand correspondence.

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Caipiroska Smirnoff

Designed by Art Contrast, a merchandising and packaging design agency located in São Paulo City, Brazil.

The line of Caipiroska Smirnoff ®, developed exclusively in Brazil, is now even more premium. Created by Art Contrast, a Brazilian design agency, the packaging received new labels and graphics making the product more prominent, referring to the tradition and the sophistication inherent in the brand.

The new labels of the lemon, passion fruit and berries flavors are aligned with the overall strategy to strengthen the Smirnoff ® brand's heritage dating from the nineteenth century, a time when vodka was sipped by the Russian monarchy.

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Personalize

Designed by Pande Design Solutions, Brazil.

Rupture for the packaging of automotive accessories

Pande Design Solutions, a brazilian agency of design, signs the new packaging line of automotive accessories from General Motors (GM), launched at the Brazilian’s Auto Show 2010. The case brings to the segment an emotive language that connects with consumers.

To breathe life into the concept was created the brand Personalize, which offers an experience beyond the product, enhancing the consumer's personality and his emotional attachment to the car. The value of personalization revolves around the desire of everyone wanting to be unique, special and different, with a car "your way". Accessories assert the idea of status, power, and community inclusion.

The packages talk to the target, enticing the consumer and thereby contributing to the proposed acquisition, which is often made on impulse in this segment. In addition to bringing clear information, the design highlights the main attributes of each product in a simple language that makes the technical background.

Aiming to facilitate the identification and add value to the products was created a unique color code. The packaging of premium products have won sober colors and metallic. For the most popular accessories, the colors are vibrant, facilitating the choice of radios, navigators, DVDs and speakers.

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Johnnie Walker Gold

Designed by QSLD Paris, France.

Johnnie Walker has decided to create a new way to savour its Gold Label Whisky : Serve Chilled.

The french design agency QSLD Paris has been selected to create the outer pack dedicated to this new tasting.

Freeze your bottle and put it into Johnnie Walker Ice Pillar. It will keep your bottle cold and will allow you to extend your chilled relishing.
" To make this new consumption ritual visually conveyed, we have symbolized gold confined into ice. The Ice Pillar keeps Gold Label bottles frozen." Denis Boudard says.

The inner box is inspired by frosted gold leaves and symbolizes Gold Label.
The outer box is transparent, it depicts the ice wrapping the item.

Composed of several parts, Johnnie Walker Gold Ice Pillar is covered by a metallic gold anodized ring. The logos are embossed out.

This ring repeats the slanting dynamics of Johnnie Walker Gold’s emblematic label. It makes the product and the brand immediately identifiable and is also used for closing the case.

"We love limpid concepts, so we have created an object that would show in a clear way Johnnnie Walker Gold Label’s new consumption ritual. We have developped a case conveying Johnnie Walker’s whisky prestige." Denis Boudard continues.

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Cuevas Chef

Designed by Garrofé Brand&Pack, Spain.

Grupo Cuevas entrusts to Garrofé Brand&Pack the repositioning of their mass commodity products

Garrofé Brand&Pack has carried out the project of design and communication to replace the range of products directed to the Grupo Cuevas’ big audience, one of the bigger Spanish companies of the food sector. It is about a line of mash and other derivatives of chestnuts that can be used for flavoring and accompanying different plates.

In response to the will of the client to update and re-direct their mass commodity products to a young and up-to-date public, Garrofé Brand&Pack has re-designed the packaging of the whole range of products according to their new positioning at the market. The new packaging, with sharp and clear lines, and with a young and dynamic style, answers to the aim for transmitting the values of a line of products destined to improve and enrich the consumers’ every day cooking with a professional but, at the same time, home-made touch.

In addition, Garrofé Brand&Pack has created the specific subbrand Cuevas Chef and the descriptive concept to be used as a claim Your touch. Both concepts describe the product and transmit perfectly its values of positioning in the market: to wise up the every day cooking, to create sensations, to have a tasty but healthy diet, to add an original touch to the plates that are cooked in house. The claim Your touch, easy to deal, is directed all the ages and transmits a clear message: "Make something different. With the Cuevas’ products you will give to your plates the touch of an expert cooker".

As a result of the redesign of packaging and of the development of the descriptive concepts, the campaign Cuevas Chef transmits coherence, attraction and efficiency, accomplishing the requirements of the initial briefing.

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Marcelino Wines

California based Marcelino Wines. Jason Twist Inc. developed the branding and packaging of the company and their unique bottles.

The exquisite grapes in this sumptuous wine are organically grown in the famous mountain ranges of the Bekaa Valley. It is here where the combination of high altitude, clean mountain air and warm sunshine all year round yield our signature varietal.

The essence of the Saint Marcelino wine is brought to life from its' traditional process by maturing the wine with esteemed oak barrels in the mountains of the
Bcharre Caves. The Saint Marcelino wine is alive and will grow in quality with time.

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Gran Farina

Designed by Mangion & Lightfoot, Malta.

Gran Farina is a private label brand developed for use in Eastern Mediterranean markets and was commissioned by Federated Mills, Malta’s only flour milling operation. We developed the name and visual identity along with a range of packaging for the 6 main types of flour they planned to market.

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Hout Bay

Designed by The Hive, Ireland.

At the southern tip of Africa, often mere metres from the shore, the migration of the southern right whale is a keenly observed phenomenon. Their passage to the western cape to calve and nurse their young is a long established, and much like the harvest, is one of nature’s indicators of the passing of the season. It’s hard not to be affected by the majesty of this spectacle, so at Hout Bay we simply raise a glass to wish them on their way.

I Heart My Choco

Designed by Asmita Kunwar, United States.

This is project proposal submitted by Asmita Kunwar to the PRAIM group of confectioners for their 2011 chocolate collection. Vivid colors with mosaic pattern is what makes this design shine out of the shelves. Clean and cute typography gives it a deliciously tempting look.

Sommelier Fine Wines

old world, new world: The Sommelier appears as a character plucked from a 1900s french wine poster, whilst his contemporary counterparts use a more modern approach to show the wine’s character.

Designed by d.studio brand design, United Kingdom.

Sommelier import great wine to the UK, primarily from Bordeaux but also, more recently, from the New World. They asked us to redesign their own-brand wines, which are aimed at wine lovers but are certainly not about snobbery.
The wines are full of body & character so we made it our job to give them, well, a body and some character!

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The White Company

Designed by Aloof, United Kingdom.

Product range packaging design for one of the UK's fastest growing multi-channel retailers.

Aloof redesigned the Bath & Body product range, refining containers, fitments, labels and packaging design within established production budgets.

Subsequently, we have designed packaging for new, premium White Scents, Noir, Menswear, Glassware and Portobello collections.

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12/15 Report - Wedgewood, Railroad Spikes, and Jupiter Inlet Beach

Wedgewood Pot Found Along a Treasure Coast Waterway.Don't bother with those expensive stores if you are thinking about antique Wedgewood for Christmas. Just take a walk along one of the Treasure Coast waterways. You might find something unexpected like the pot shown in this photo. Wedgewood pottery was first made in 1759. I would guess that this one is a much later piece. I occasionally remind

Jardim D'Oliveira

Designed by NTGJ, Portugal.

JARDIM D'OLIVEIRA aims to be not only a simple and modern olive oil but also part of people lifestyle.It is a delicate DOP Trás-os-Montes 100% organic extra virgin olive oil with a pleasant taste of fresh olives and a beautiful golden color.

JARDIM D'OLIVEIRA is a blend of stylish conceptual design and premium quality Portuguese olive oil. The design is minimalist and conceptual.

The triangle shape is the biggest simplification of the olive tree shape. JARDIM D'OLIVEIRA means Garden of Olive Trees in English. The pattern of triangles represents that garden.

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12/14 Report - Religious Artifact Found & Santa Discovered

Nice Metal Detector Find From an Area Bordering the Treasure Coast.Photo submitted by Will B. who found this great item. I really like religious artifacts like this.I had a religious medallion from a 1715 Fleet site that was so encrusted that I thought it was a coin. I kept it with a bunch of coins that needed cleaned for the longest time. I didn't find out what was actually under the

Point by Anders Hjelm

Designed by Bedow Creative. The studio was founded in 2005 and is located on Södermalm in Stockholm, Sweden.

Packaging for the wall hook Point from Essem Design. The hook comes in black, white or red and in three different sizes—single, double or quadruple.

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Mariella Nails Body Spa Creams

Designed by In Mood Designers at Athens, Greece.

Mariella Nails Body & Mind Care is a body and nail spa center in Greece. In Mood Designers created the labels for the range of 12 natural body spa cream for women.

The Body Spa Creams offers skin smoothness, freshness and pure feeling.
Aromas: Strawberry - Mastic - Sea - Sour Almond - Chocolate - Cinnamon - Peach - Vanilla - Coconut - Banana - Rose - Jasmine

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Pembroke Craft Brewery

Designed by Gary Head Design, Australia.

What started as a love for beer and the need for more packaging pieces in a growing portfolio, this project developed into creating a brand for two guys who brew more beer than they can drink and Pembroke Craft Brewery was born and the simple task for this job was to develop a labeling system for their ever expanding brew collection while sticking to their slick brand which highlights their outstanding work ethic to produce premium beer and beverages.

The labeling system is based on a focus toward a numerical labeling rather than traditional simple beer names. Resulting in the name of the beverage varieties being able to be more descriptive than the traditional naming of beers such as Dry or Drought. All varieties have a template style design with the only point of difference being replaceable copy and colour to reflect the style of each beer/beverage.

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Gahaña (Student Work)

Designed by Christopher Vicente, currently studying graphic design at the Art Institute of California: Orange County.

Gahaña is a line of Indian spice mixtures (masala) created for a branding and packaging project. This lines of spices consist of three mixed flavors: mango/ginger, pomegranate/almond and garlic/onion. In this project I tried to focus on designing something that’s normally very traditional looking and giving it a more contemporary feel. Flavor identification was also very important when it came to the branding of this product. The colors as well as the flavor symbols were the two main things that I used to set the three flavors apart while making sure that there’s continuity within the line of products.

Taffy Twist

Designed by Struck Axiom, United States.

New Twist on an Old Classic

Sweet’s Candy needed a rejuvenation for their century-old product and a face lift for their decades-old packaging. Something to match the quality of the product and launch it into a category all its own, Gourmet Taffy. The solution came in the form of the Sweet’s custom Taffy Twist Box. This unique design leveraged the talents of a local manufacturer to get out-of-country prices at an in-state establishment. As a result, Sweet’s has now sold over 750,000 units and counting of Signature Series products based on design alone. Now that’s tasty.

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12/11 Report - Neat Spike and Old Rusty Stuff

Really Neat Spike Found by Diver Off of North Carolina.I saw this spike offered on eBay and thought it was really interesting. The seller inherited the item. He didn't know if it was a spike that was modified to be used as a knife or what. I just thought it was unusual and very nice.Below is one of those things that looks like nothing more than a rusty lump. I think most beginners

Bioform

Designed by Strømme Throndsen Design, Norway.

Norwegian based Bioform is a producer of natural health care products. Strømme Throndsen Design was responsible in creating the brand identity, logo and package design.

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Tatratea

Designed by Pergamen, Slovakia.

In 2009 Karloff, a premium Slovak producer and distributor of spirits and wines decided to change the design of a popular Tatratea. Design studio Pergamen created a new bottle, symbol and design for this strong Slovak spirit. Inspiration for the shape of the bottle was a therm flask used in Tatra Mountains resorts. Easily identified silhouette with no bottle neck is accompanied by a symbol “T” that is inspired by traditional wood-carving and jewel-making. The initial contains solar symbols for the circle of life, symbols of love, happiness, fertility etc. Simple (but distinct) colour scale helps to identify particular kinds of Tatratea according to the volume of alcohol.

A limet-green glass of Tatratea 32 underlines its citrus flavour. A gentle peach tint of Tatratea 42 respects the presence of a white tea. The legendary 52 with extracts of black tea occupies the black bottle. Forest fruits in Tatratea 62 are softened by a glass with forest fruits colour. The strongest Tatratea 72 has a titan metallic look. The aim of re-design of Tatratea was to accent the brand essence: “Strong original from the heart of Tatra Mountains".

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12/10 Report - Gold Plated Space Debris? & Rusted Iron Shipwreck Debris

Thin Sheet of Metal Plated With Gold That Tests Good at 18K.This piece was found on the Treasure Coast, and the photo was submitted by Fred B. Fred said that when he found the piece it was folded over, and when he unfolded it he found the gold plating on what was the inside surface. Fred was wondering if it might be another piece from the space shuttle. I think that is very possible. Electronic

Fleriana All Natural

Designed by Mouse Graphics, Greece.

Three new packs for the fleriana range of aromatics and insect repellents for the home_ the packaging design was based on the products 100% natural composition, employing descriptive symbolism to narrate a 'fresh' story with an ending that is natural as well as effective_ thus, the products manage to stand-out on the super market shelf, often filled with aggressive symbolism and violent color codes.

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Crumbs Cupcakes (Student Work)

Designed by Beth Chapleau, a 3rd year graphic design student at Durham College in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada.

The goal of this project was to select an existing brand and redesign their identity for a series of 3 packages that changed based on 3 different flavours. Crumbs Bake Shop was chosen and packages for their Candy, Smores and Brownie cupcake flavours were created. The boxes use colours that coordinate with the cupcake they house, this helps distinguish the various flavours to employees and customers. The boxes are made of recycled paper so they’re more green than the existing plastic containers. Trays were also d

esigned to fit in the boxes so the cupcakes didn’t topple while inside the box.

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BluePrintKit

Designed by Aaron Somers, is an artist and designer with a Brooklyn-based design firm specializing in custom interiors and built to order furniture.

The story of BluePrintCleanse is essentially the story of an idea – the idea that cleansing needed to be liberated from the rigid dogma and new-age aesthetics of the raw food universe and made more accessible to more people. BluePrintCleanse is the very first line of juice cleanses to offer varying levels of intensity depending on one’s dietary habits and history. It’s a user-friendly system of cleansing set up to be practical for all nutritional lifestyles, from the most austere of raw food acolytes to the burger-and-red-wine crowd looking to periodically offset the damages of their indulgence. Offerings include Juice Cleanses, Juice ‘til Dinner, 6 Packs of Green Juice or Lemonade, Tasting Flight, Bride-to-BPC and now, BluePrintKit.

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Chalk It Up (Student Work)

Designed by Sarah Minnerly, United States.

Chalk It Up was a package design project I did for my production design course here at the Savannah College of Art and Design. I decided to pick a concept that reflected the child-like playfulness of chalk itself. The box in therefore interactive, for you can draw and erase on it with the chalk from the package. There is also a built in eraser on the back of the triangular prism that the chalk is held through.

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