A Swedish company, Billerud, has created a new recyclable and biodegradable packaging material that has flexibility which enables some pretty great package designs. Marks & Spencer has used the new material to create this fantastic packaging. Via The Dieline.
I know it’s not necessarily a new concept (graphic designers have been taking items out of their bags, arranging them in grids, and telling us what they keep on their person for years now)- but Todd McLellan’s images of scrapped mechanical objects are gorgeous. Via Quipsologies.
Everything is beautiful about this line of Polish organic cosmetics- but I especially love the system of pictographs that represent how each product is to be used. Via Lovely Package.
I have not blogged for the last week. It’s not that I think all of you (which may or may not consist of around three people, including my mom) are sitting at home anxiously awaiting my next post, but I do feel I owe some explanation as to why my RSS feed built up to 748 new items and not one new post was submitted.
After getting very sick, falling behind on homework, watching my state and city fall into political unrest, and working three jobs rather than my usual two this week, I hope it’s safe to say the craziest times of the semester are (almost) behind me. I do still have to figure out what I’m doing this summer, take a ton of midterms, design some wedding invitations…actually, let’s not list what I have to do. I’m close enough to a nervous breakdown. (End of typical collegiate “I’m so busy, my life sucks, pity me!” rant.)
Basically, I’m doing my best to keep this thing up and running (thanks in no small part to those of you who have said nice things about this little slice of the internet to me lately), and I wanted to let you know I don’t plan on falling off the face of the earth any time soon.
Space wine: the greatest invention ever. Okay, that obviously doesn’t exist (yet) and consequently is not what is inside of these beautifully wrapped bottles, but the labels have me transfixed. The winery’s name comes from the constellation Caelum, and its owners are “passionate about the sky,” so the astronomy theme seems like a perfect choice.
(Via Lovely Package)
Infographics using photography by Danish designer Peter Orntoft. I’m absolutely blown away- such a seemingly simple concept but I’ve never seen it explored. Fantastic use of color and type, too!
See more here.
“The first couple years that you’re making stuff, what you’re making isn’t so good — it’s not that great. It’s trying to be good, it has ambition to be good, but it’s not quite that good. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, your taste is still killer and your taste is good enough that you can tell that what you’re making is kind of a disappointment to you. A lot of people never get past that phase and a lot of people at that point quit.
And the thing I would just like say to you with all my heart is that most everybody I know who does interesting creative work, they went through a phase of years where they had really good taste and they could tell what they were making wasn’t as good as they wanted it to be. We knew that it didn’t have the special thing that we wanted it to have and the thing to do is — everybody goes through that. And for you to go through it, if you’re going through it right now, if you’re just getting out of that phase or if you’re just starting off and you’re entering into that phase, you’ve got to know it’s totally normal and the most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work. Do a huge volume of work.”
- Ira Glass, host of This American Life, on creativity
I’m already a loyal customer of French Paper Company, but their packaging redesign makes me want to order fresh ream even more than usual, if only for the wrapping. Via Lovely Package.
