New style : June 2011

Thursday, June 30, 2011

6/30/11 Report - Cannon From Revolutionary War Wreck Recovered Off St. Augustine Beach & Tropical Storm Arlene

Photo of Cannon Being Raised.Photo from Jacksonville.com.I just noticed yesterday that my hit counter just blew through 200,000 the other day. That seemed fast. The big news for me today is the cannons that were recovered from an area within sight of the St. Augustine Beach pier. It seems the wreck is from the late 18th century, possibly between the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812.Here is

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Plant Your Dreams (Concept)

PLANT YOUR DREAMS AND LET THEM GROW

"Plant your Dreams and let them Grow" is the title of Sophia’s Georgopoulou self - promotion project and her wish for 2011!

The actual tulip flowers and their "unique" names (e.g. "Red Emperor", "Pink Diamond", "Sweetheart" etc.) inspired the designer to create a series of ecological and interactive packages containing tulip bulbs.

The packages were sent as gifts to friends and clients and offered them a unique experience by telling them to "Plant their Dreams", take care of them and see if they will grow (and come true) the following year..

The illustrations created on the packs were inspired by the name of each "unique" tulip and were drawn by hand.

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Santeen

The venerable Santeen brand needed a face-lift. With a sixty-year history of providing hardworking cleaning products, Santeen wanted to retain its authentic brand values while reinvigorating the brand for consideration by a contemporary audience. The new Santeen brand identity and packaging underscore the professional quality and high performance of its products coupled with company's enduring genuine American roots.

Inspired by classic 1950's package design, the new brand language conveys a sense of strength, pragmatism and work ethic with a no-nonsense yet modern graphic look and feel. The primary packaging also features a proprietary design that allows the product to be shelved and sold without the use of safety bags—making the product more recognizable, convenient and affordable.

Drink Wine Label (Concept)

Interesting concept designed by Horea Grindean, United Kingdom.

What 3 things would you like to communicate to your audience through your package graphics design?

-Different/clean/modern
-Great Taste
-Fun and shareable

We prefer contrasts as apposed to picking specific colors. Think bright colors on black backgrounds or strong color pallets on an all white background. Things that "pop" are critical as this bottle needs to get someone to want to pick it up off the shelf.

"Grab a friend and have a drink. We work with some of the best vineyards in California to bring you quality wine that is simple, tastes good, fun, and you can enjoy with friends. Life is short so go out and have fun but watch out for what might get posted to Facebook™ . Drink It, Don't Store It!"

Martini Bitter

Bitter is one of the most classic references within Martini's world.
We have developed the restyling of the label keeping in mind a contemporary definition of the balance between heritage/nobility of the product with a renewed dynamism, evoked in the top side of the label.

Anguish (Student Work)

This college work is absolutely conceptual. It was submitted for me a simple proposal: To pack a feeling. I chose "Anguish", and solved the challenge through the representation of a blood bag.

This package is the first model developed by Tetra Pak, in tetrahedral shape.

XPERIA PLAY Mini POS Display

Sony Ericsson XPERIA PLAY "World" Mini POS Display

For Sony Ericsson’s global launch of the first Playstation certified smartphone XPERIA PLAY, the advertising agency Adentity has created eye-catching mini POS displays. The display starts as a carton package, transporting the display phone to stores globally. Once delivered, the carton package then transforms into an inspiring and attractive mini POS display. The display creates a miniature universe surrounding the phone, to mirror the world of ultimate gaming and communication - that the phone makes you a part of.

Pick me up – Mini POS Display showcases the world’s first Playstation Smartphone.

The eye-catching mini POS display package developed by the advertising agency Adentity for the launch of Sony Ericsson XPERIA PLAY, demonstrates how the Android smartphone opens up a world of communication and gaming. When the phone arrives in stores it comes in a carton package, which transforms into a display. Featuring cut-outs that highlight the Android platform, the PlayStation certification and the many opportunities to connect with others, the display creates a miniature universe surrounding the phone, to mirror the world that the phone makes you a part of. The message is clear – pick up this phone!

This exciting display is the latest of the unique mini POS displays that Adentity has developed for Sony Ericsson phones. Each solution is based on the idea that the package used for transporting the phone turns into a display highlighting the main features of each individual phone. The concept has been highly successful all over the world and the exposure in-store has been equally impressive.

6/28/11 Report - Spanish Missions & Loose Change

Map Showing Location of Spanish Missions in Florida.This map appeared in the 2006 Master's thesis of Alissa Slade. Here is the link if you want to read the thesis.http://etd.lib.fsu.edu/theses_1/available/etd-11142006-180114/unrestricted/Final.pdfNotice the marked shipping route back to St. Augustine. You probably know that I especially like "first finds." They tend to move a person to the next

Monor Iaurt De Băut

The aim was to create an innovation in the category, challenging the traditional yogurt packaging. The big step was towards the PET bottle container, an alternative to the classic Tetra Pak, the obvious choice for a diary product in Romania.

A clean and simple design, playing with a coloured brush trace, creates a fun and appealing package.

Monday, June 27, 2011

The Gumdrops

WE ARE PURE ENJOYS SWEET SUCCESS IN RUSSIA

Brand and packaging design consultancy We Are Pure has secured a contract with Slavyanka, one of the biggest names in Russia’s confectionery sector.

The consultancy won a three-way pitch to secure the deal, which will see the team reposition, rationalise and develop Slavyanka’s extensive product range. They will become the first agency outside of Russia to work alongside the confectionery giant.

New brands, packaging, website and POS will all be created for the company, which dates back over 70 years and currently has an annual turnover of $600m.

Slavyanka’s current range includes over 400 products, featuring everything from chocolate bars and cookies to fruit flavoured jellies and cakes. One of We Are Pure’s initial tasks will be to create new brand characters to be used across the entire range.

We Are Pure has developed a strong reputation for brand and packaging design in the confectionery market, having previously worked for industry leaders Cadbury and Fox’s, and launching the entire own-brand confectionery offering for DVD rental giant Blockbuster.

The consultancy also has extensive experience of the Russian retail market, having launched a range of new stores for health and beauty manufacturer Pervoe Reshenie earlier this year.

Commenting on the contract with Slavyanka, We Are Pure’s owner and creative partner David Rogers said:

“As well as our big brand experience, the management team at Slavyanka felt comfortable with our existing Russian retail links and was also impressed with the fact that we have created two of our very own confectionery brands.

“Having My World fairtrade chocolate for children and the Sugar Plum line of confectionery for adults under our belt, demonstrates that we not only have the ideas, but also have the experience to successfully take a new brand to market.

“Our work with Slavyanka will be about taking an existing brand, packed with history and introducing it to a new generation. It is a family-owned business and it is important to retain that sense of heritage and, as a team, we are well positioned to do that with sensitivity and consideration for what has gone before.

“We will be aiming to create an overall, credible umbrella brand, which will unite all of the other sub-brands, allowing them to tier down from this starting point as we move forwards.”

I Love Elassona

For a baby-boy christening ceremony in the city of Elassona (Central Greece), small linen pouches, in brown and light blue color, were created as baptism giveaway gifts and were given at the end of the christening ceremony. These pouches contained sweets and they were decorated with small cockade pins with various slogans and in a variety of colors. The themes on the cockades were taken from the key cockade of the invitation.

6/27/11 Report - Cloudy Day at the Beach

Salvage Boat Arriving On Wreck Site This Morning.As you can see from the photo, it was cloudy this morning on the Treasure Coast. Nonetheless, salvage crews were getting ready to go to work.Subsurface radar is being used a lot by archaeologists today. Here is a little video that provides shows some basic information on subsurface radar. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mA_lq9eRxpk&NR=1Not too long

Luminare Paint (Student Work)

By using the newest technology in the market, this paint changes shade according to how many lumens it receives. There are three layers of nano-sheets inside the paint that overlap each other. In other words, if it’s morning, the shade gets darker so the room isn’t too bright. If it’s night, the shade gets lighter so it’s not too dark. During mid-day, it’s the normal shade. This is so no matter what time of day, the appearance in the room is close to the same.

Sunday, June 26, 2011

6/26/11 Report - Sterncastle Gem

Atocha 10 Carat Emerald Ring FoundGood news from Key West!A couple of days ago I received an email from the Mel Fisher organization reporting the find of this 10 Carat emerald ring found in the new area of exploration within 300 feet of where a gold rosary and gold bar were recently found. Seems to be a nice new hot spot. They think it might be where the sterncastle went down, and that is where

Saturday, June 25, 2011

Kamenitza Redesigned

Kamenitza, leader of the Bulgarian beer market,
with Adrián Pierini’s view

The well-known Argentinean designer, who successfully updated the image of the world famous beer Beck’s, is now responsible for the visual transformation of Kamenitza, the most important Bulgarian beer.

For many reasons, his agency, Pierini Partners, has grown to currently become one of the most important branding and packaging design studios in Argentina. However, their projects are still surprising, not only for the geographic range of his clients (located in countries such as Thailand, Colombia, England, Turkey, United States, Bolivia, Belgium, Paraguay, Peru and Bulgaria), but also for the ability of handling the global aesthetic codes in a relatively easy way.

Kamenitza is a new example of this. It’s not only a brand, it’s “The Bulgarian brand”, and it has been connected with the life of the people in that beautiful European town for 130 years.

The new design process started with a preliminary study of the situation, to proceed later to a designing stage that was based in strong and steady argumentative reasons. The conclusion of this analysis was that the aesthetic of the brand was outdated. Consumers have renewed, so an updating was extremely important to the brand. This was not a minor issue; the existing layout had a basic side band, which functioned as a support of an extremely rigid logotype, and there was no integration between the shield, the brand, the medals and all the complementary information.
With this diagnosis, the prestigious Argentinean designer decided to generate a much more personal, attractive and memorable identity. To achieve these important objectives, the first step was to update the shield, making it more stylized, elegant and attractive, and magnifying its most emblematic figure: the lion. Then, he gave the logotype the value it deserves by improving the aesthetic of the base (adding contention lines and twirls) and incorporating personal features in the font with rounded and friendly shapes, as an effective way of giving more personality and recognition.

The hardness was turned into proximity, and the coldness and composition mistakes of the current icon into attractive and appropriate elements for the target.
Regarding to the color palette, he decided to maintain the original green because of its important historical value. Therefore, the background was visually improved with the incorporation of sub-tones in the typographical scheme, combined with an amplified reference of the lion.

Last but not least, the medals show how much the brand knows about beer, so their presence was strengthened by using them in an accurate way in the upright white band, adding twirls and shadows.

Kamenitza is now 130 years old, and celebrates its birthday with a new identity and an updated packaging that will face to the new century, communicating with their consumers on equal terms, taking into account their needs and becoming a real accomplice of their best moments.

Entierro

This book is a reinterpretation of a story by Edgar Allan Poe, is based on the concept of claustrophobia and catalepsy, for it has developed a book to convey the feeling of being trapped, making finding the missing pages of reading between the sheets black and encased in wood textures as if it were a person buried. As the funeral ornament with a ribbon bearing the title of the book and the making of a box containing the book to keep a black block and closed with a ribbon that represents the old way of burying, lowering the coffin with ropes.

SNZ

A traditional manufacturer of luxury handmade soaps, for the Brazilian market, has asked us to develop the whole visual design, from branding to packaging for a new export soap brand.

Pasto Per Uno (Student Work)

I wanted to create a fast and affordable pasta meal for one, that has a clear and simple design and structure. Attracting an audience that may not have much experience with food, or the time to prepare a meal from scratch.

Friday, June 24, 2011

6/24/11 Report - Atocha Silver Bar & New Sedwick Auction Open

Atocha Silver Bar in New Sedwick Auction.Really neat silver bar with a lot of information inscribed.Here is the lot description.Large silver bar #56, 84 lb 1.4 oz troy, Class Factor 0.9. Choice bar. Markings: ATS monogram to left, HE to right, V at upper right corner. manifest number IUCCXXIX, fineness IIU C C C L X X X (2380 = 99.2% pure) to left of partial IoV.Ess. / MEXIA assayer cartouche,

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Borello

Package Design for Borello, Italian brand manufacturer of bakery foods. A project dedicated to a modern consumer who seeks the standards of excellence in the tradition. The idea was to create a solution that celebrated the product and its Italian identity: the result is a clean and elegant food packaging. The focus is exclusively on the product.

Interpack 2011 Exhibition Concepts

Designed by Quantum Graphics (Russia) to present agency at the Interpack 2011 Exhibition (as a part of Pan-European Branding and Design association - PDA). The die-line was provided by German package manufacturer STI. The set of packages includes 3 items: coffee aroma pack, dispencer for coffee-pods, paper bag to carry 3 coffee cups.

Concept 1

Awakening of senses - is the main motif of the first concept. We tell a little story of the beautiful girl character with the help of an interactive hook: when the package is closed the girl is “asleep” and her eyes are closed. But as soon as one opens the package, the girl «wakes up», attracted by the wonderful coffee aroma.

The main “hero» of the dispencer for coffee pads is an «inspired» coffee cup with wings. The cup is placed around the die-cut window making play of the contents and of the form.

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

6/23/11 Report - Copper Sheeting and Stuff

Two Pieces of Copper Sheeting Found Recently on Treasure Coast Beaches.There is a small piece of copper sheeting from a 1715 Fleet wreck that is for sale on eBay. I didn't think it would get a bid, but it has two bids already. I point this out because a lot of people only look for coins or gold and silver artifacts. Some people tend to disregard other things they find that actually have value

6/22/11 Report - Vero Bone - Cob Beach Finds Survey Results

Treasure Coast Beach This Morning Near Low Tide.I think you can see a small dip in front of a broad sand bar here. This beach is a little steeper than the low flat beach I talked about yesterday and which had the iron objects out front.You might know about the important incised mammoth bone that was found near Vero. A research team of archaeologists, paleontologists, forensic anthropologists,

Noo-Del (Student Work)

The brief was to make a package with a second life.

Noo-Del is a playful and simple packaging that will stand out on the shelves. The decor of a geisha refers to Asia and Asian-food and the decor gets extra playful with the eating-sticks which gives the illusion of being the geisha hairpins. The effect is even more fun when you eat from the package!

The package is useful in several ways: it is easy to carry with, when adding water you can heat up the noodles in a microwave and eat direct from the the package which has a shape of a take-away-package when opening it.

Hedera Wines

Hedera is one of our newest and most exciting design for Domain Marash. It is a brand new winery in Bulgaria full with enthusiasm and exciting perspectives. We all have been inspired by the fresh and young spirit of the whole project. Our main goal was to create a unique label, based on attractive even crazy idea. We decided to use the QR code as a main image of modern vision and then blend it with classic artistic calligraphy for the Hedera brand.

All these incorporated in nearly classic label form, delicately touched by our contemporary approach. As part of our design tradition, we wanted to improve the label effect so we put some transparent puff-up varnish on the QR code and on the Hedera calligraphy. We used the same QR code pattern on bottle capsule and it really turned out the whole vision into something very attractive and elegant at the same time.
The wines will be out for sale in late autumn of 2011.

2011 Inspiration Calendar (Student Work)

This calendar is for anyone who wants to get more out of each day of their lives. Using the ironic framework of toy model pieces, you pop out a piece each day and build a different flying machine for each month, thus giving flight to all your inspirations. Each month has left over pieces of inspiration for each individual to do with what they like.
Each pack contains 6 different months (only October is pictured).

Gatorade

Sport is a serious business and there's often a fine balance between success and failure. With Gatorade it was about striking the same kind of balance between communicating its sports performance enhancing benefits, while retaining the brand’s scientific credentials and establishing a credible position as a natural product. ‘…and with an astonishing, intelligent performance Ziggurat comes up on the inside, leaves the rest of the field behind and hurtles first across the finishing line.

Boutique Spices

The brief was to create to our client, Casas Pedro in Rio de Janeiro, a collection of fine spices presented in a classy hi-end packaging.

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Raisin Blanc

Gorgeous wine packaging designed by Felix von der Weppen, Germany.

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Vi Finca Cucó

The "cucó" is an architectural piece typical of the Priorat region. It is a stone cottage with a small entrance (in the form of an "o"), located on the cultivated land. This cottage was used as a refuge in bad weather, and also as a place to rest when the farmer have to travel between their lands.

The graphic of the wine was born as a synthesis of the "cucó" looking for a strong and attractive image, for a wine that goes to a public who love´s wine. They seek for a good value for money, but also an exclusive design for the bottle.

Ponte Romana

From the unquestionable importance that the people of Rome assumed in Western culture until the present day, the wine is born Roman Bridge. This wine of Denomination of Controlled Origin, translates into an effective homage to one of the most important building systems of people and that helped greatly to develop its road system, the most advanced at that time.

The draft wine branding the Roman Bridge, based mainly on graphical simplification of the greatest constructive innovation in this type of structure, the round arch. Through this way a linear approach, which transports you to the present, and that in turn gives rise to one of the most important elements of your brand, typography.
Developed specifically for this project, the Roman Bridge typeface summarizes the two main features of the project, the linear approach of the elements (either the structure of an arch or the form of a letter) and therefore the translation across the line, building block fundamental way.

Green Beans Coffee (Concept)

HONOR FIRST, COFFEE SECOND!
Why Army uniform? Because a portion of Green Beans Coffee proceeds is donated to charities that help military families and children of the fallen.

About client:
GREEN BEANS COFFEE COMPANY is headquartered in Larkspur, California. Our company, in business since 1996, owns and operates 75+ cafes at military bases in North America and in seven countries throughout the Middle East, Southwest Asia and Africa. Many of our cafes are at bases in Afghanistan and Iraq, where danger is ever present and comforts are few.