Turning packaging into art, Stuart Murdoch created a tank out of 5,000 empty egg cartons, 26 litres of glue, 10,100 nails, 15 litres of paint, 80 square metres of steel and 5,013 staples.
It took him over 512 hours to build the tank. He made it to raise money for Help For Heroes which helps wounded British servicemen and women returning from conflict.
French agency Euro RSCG 360 developed a bag for toy store Joupi that expresses their tagline “Experts in children’s smiles”.
Adrian Froufe designed a range of packaging for 100×100. 100×100 is a brand dedicated to organic food that seeks to create links between rural producers and urban consumers.
The idea was to give the brand a new and attractive aesthetic component that breaks with the classic image of organic and environmentally friendly products.
All packaging of 100×100, except for the obvious elements, is made of the same material: corrugated cardboard, to which the seeds of various herbs are added in the manufacturing process. When the container is no longer useful, it can be planted and the seeds will sproud.
(via designboom.com)
PANTONE announced PANTONE® 17-1463 Tangerine Tango as the color of the year for 2012.
PANTONE states: ““Sophisticated but at the same time dramatic and seductive, Tangerine Tango is an orange with a lot of depth to it. Reminiscent of the radiant shadings of a sunset, Tangerine Tango marries the vivaciousness and adrenaline rush of red with the friendliness and warmth of yellow, to form a high-visibility, magnetic hue that emanates heat and energy.””.
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Read more on the PANTONE website.
This one is for lovers of print history: an documentary from 1960 explaining how mechanical typesetting works.
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Traditionally in Greece, lovers used to exchange love messages written with pen on the Lacta chocolate’s paper wrapper.
The packaging was changed to a plastic wrapper, so people couldn’t use Lacta as a medium for love messages any more.
A mobile app using augmented reality allows people to compose messages on their smartphones and then send them to their loved ones. Old school love notes made possible with new school technology.