In case you missed this in fast company and business week, this is a good article to read regarding Dave Butlers’s work for Coke. Must Read. Enjoy! http://www.fastcompany.com/design/2009/featured-story-david-butler and http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/aug2008/id20080825_105720.htm
Make smokers quit?
Excellent piece of thinking and provocation on purposely creating a package to irritate. I love this line. “For too long, cigarette companies used good design for evil. Now, Erik Askin says, it’s time to use bad design for good.” Hmm Teachevil? Also take a look at Askin’s portfolio on this subject called designed [...]
Just a little something my packaging team and I got underway in 2005. Pretty proud of what the Nokia Design packaging team developed. This is with the carriers branding.
http://www.nokia.co.in/about-nokia/environment/we-create/packaging
How do you innovate a shoe box? Here is an amazing solution with a fantastic communications piece also designed to be simple, passionate, and inspiring. Communication of an idea is half the battle. This Puma example does both. Enjoy!
http://vision.puma.com/us/en/2010/04/puma-launches-new-sustainable-packaging-designed-by-yves-behar/
Early in March when I was setting up the Berlin studio I saw a bike with mirrored wheels leaning at a tree on Torstrasse. Little did I know that it belonged to a series of urban interventions by Olafur Eliasson, pointing at his first solo exhibition in Berlin called Inner City Out.
The show in the [...]
Mystery Medicine
Origin: China
Once again, found in my parent’s pantry
This box is several years old, but I love the pattern and colors. There is a disconnect with the contents inside, but these little boxes are also lovely in their ornate beauty. Each box comes with a tiny brick of medicine and I have no idea what [...]
Origin: China
Found in my parent’s pantry
My parents received these as a gift awhile ago. The form of the bottle design is quite lovely and the opening mechanism is elegant, yet simple. This drink, treasured for its numerous health benefits, is made from the nests of cave swifts, who produce these nests using their saliva. It [...]
Shrink Wrap will feature charming international package design finds that I discover in my life. They won’t always be the best designed, but they will always be unique and notable in some way. Enjoy!
Hokto Kinoko Mushroom Package
Origin: USA/Japan
Discovered in my parents’ fridge
The little characters on this mushroom package are quite wonderful.
Also, if you find a [...]