Love this idea for Pantone Eye Make-up and Nail Polish by Renata Veiga. The simplicity of the design works really well and gives the product a high end feel.
As a graphic designer I just wouldn't be able to resist buying them! I'm sure almost every designer has a Pantone mug, I know I have one!
I have always wanted to have tea at one of those posh hotels in London, and I think I'd like to try Afternoon tea at the Berkeley! All their tea biscuits and cakes are inspired by the fashion from designers such as Christian Dior, Burberry, Christian Lacroix , Louis Vuitton, and Mulberry.
Left to Right: representing Alexander McQueen, Yves Saint Laurent, Christian Dior
FOC (Freedom of Creation) is a company that has invented a process where in which they can take 3D Autocad drawings and "print" them out. Check out the video at the bottom of this LINK to see the printing process!
These are some other things they've printed:
Mesh IPhone Case
The outer woven shell of the chair was printed and then attached to the chair!
We decided to take an afternoon off to go watch the taping of Steven and Chris. Interesting experience.
Our name didn't end up being on the list, but we got in anyways. So wasn't a full house. Everyone was treated really well in the waiting area - getting makeup done or makeup touchups. (See photo of Lisa getting hers touched up)
On Set with camera guys:
Waiting for taping to begin (Danica and Lisa):
Segments featured handbags, nutrition, herb gardening and carpet dying. The handbag segment was loved by all as they showed bags from Zellers at $19.99 to Valentino and Chanel with pricing in the $1000s.
As in all shows, there are always a few disappointments when you get to understand the behind the scenes action. For example, the "Fashion Expert" with the handbags - wasn't really more than an actress - the producer had shopped for the bags, and handed her the Q-cards with the script.
All in all, it was a fun afternoon.
Many people have written about the Tropicana redesign that tanked last year. At the time, I just shook my head and promptly stopped buying it. But now that I have seen some of their losses, it makes me really wonder what made them do it? WHY?
I saw these numbers on the Brand Packaging website:
"On January 8th Tropicana North America introduced a revolutionary new look for its flagship Tropicana Pure Premium brand, the market leader with over $700 million in North American sales. This design change was driven by and linked to a new $35 million advertising campaign that prominently featured the new packaging.
The in-market results were immediate and dramatic: Over the first two months, sales of Tropicana Pure Premium plummeted 20 percent, translating to over $30 million in lost revenue. Simultaneously, sales of the brand’s direct competitors (including Minute Maid, Florida’s Natural and private label brands) all increased by double-digits, clearly benefiting from Tropicana’s losses."
Wow!! I wonder what happened to the Advertising Agency that created both the new packaging and the advertising campaign that went with it. For a product with that kind of revenue you would have thought that they would have tested the market first before launching.
I haven't met a graphic designer yet, who didn't have this 'thing' for typography. If you are one of 'those people', check out the House Industries website.
Some casual fun fonts:
Some serious but unique type:
To be used in creative ways:
I don't normally thing of applying wallpaper as a fun activity, but this tear off wallpaper actually looks fun!
You can customize your walls by tearing off portions of the wallpaper.
You can even let your kid colour on the walls for once (before tearing of course) and make something fun out of it!
Wallpaper.com has a feature on Poland's upcoming architectural highlights, there are some really interesting things happening, here are a few designs that I particularly like:
Korona Tower in Poznan, by Daniel Libeskind
Lilium Tower in Warsaw, by Zaha Hadid
Museum of the History of Polish Jews, by Lahdelma & Mahlamaki Architects
The Pedestrian Bridge of Ghosts in Oswiecim, by Jaroslaw Kozakiewicz
Funky looking chair, the designer Sarah Engelke took a photo of the insides of a chair and re-upholstered it using the photo of the insides.
