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Face Wine Bottles
Sure, these wine bottles are clever and everything but, to be honest, I would annoyed if much more time went by without them being designed. Companies should have figured out by now that when we get a little tipsy on the sipsy, we really like childish entertainment. Thanks for taking this one and disguising our love of childishness as an appreciation for sophisticated design, you lovely Australians.
New Tree Chocolates
These Belgians know what they’re doing; for starters, chocolate basically sells itself. But when you can take that old stand-by, go-to food of depressed, crying, jilted women everywhere and use the packaging to somehow convince those chicks that eating your particular brand is going to somehow make them sexier or introduce unforeseen heights of tranquility into their anguished lives, you’ve pretty much hit the marketing jackpot.
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Freedom of Creation
Gold Future by L’oreal
Speaking of chocolate – doesn’t this gold-encased little wonder look like there should be something sweet inside? That’s probably how they sell this stuff; aforementioned depressed woman picks it up thinking it’s fancy gold chocolate ball, discovers it’s actually eye cream, shrugs, decides that can’t hurt either, and buys it. Well done, L’Oreal. Actually, well done to Freedom of Creation who designed the flexible nylon, gold-finished packaging.
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Yanko Design
Hanger Tea
Designer Soon Mo Kang just made drinking tea even more adorable. And actually, I want these a lot, so when I go to make my morning tea, I’ll see the neatly arranged little rows of hanging bags and the peace of that simplistic order and harmony will momentarily make me forget all about the hellish bedlam in my actual closet. It really is the small stuff, ya know? * sigh, sip *
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Moxie Sozo
Charles Bloom
Leap Organics
Leif Steiner, Creative Director and Founder of Boulder Colorado based Moxie Sozo, just revealed this first series of designs for new Boston based company, Leap Organics. With illustrations by Charles Bloom, these are a serious win. Seriously, the minute I saw them, I was pretty much committed to buying whatever was in them and I didn’t even know what that was yet.
Mysterio Baby Clothes
How is it possible that no one ever thought of putting trashy carnival attractions and the beautiful miracle of childbirth together? Peas and carrots, my friends! Well, those dark days are behind us because now we can all swaddle our newborns AND have their futures predicted. And it goes without saying, but these onesies (that’s what they’re called. I know. I was a nanny once) come in a very excellently designed package.
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Atelier LaDurance
StormHand
Atelier LaDurance
I really have to give it up to these StormHand designs for Atelier LaDurance; it’s not easy to make such wavy crazy articles of clothing like belts and jeans look clean, neatly packaged and even geometric, but it happened here. What’s more, the result doesn’t hide the product, nor does it distort it so much to the point of not being able to tell what it is. It’s like someone finally figured out the perfect, neatest way to package these particular items.
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Akesson Vin
Akesson Vin Wine
It is with more than a modicum of resentment that I throw kudos at these wine box designs. I mean, I kinda have to because look at them. They’re great. They aren’t trying too hard but they aren’t annoyingly minimalist either; the illustrations are unique yet comforting. The whole situation on these boxes just screams, “drink me and get drunk and love it!” So okay, kudos.
But I have to say, I think that drinking wine from a juice box is a sacred and trashy pastime that no designer has any business trying to class up. So I’ll let this go, Akesson Vin, because it’s pretty awesome…but watch it. I don’t want my wine’s fancy design mocking me when I’m sitting in my pajamas getting loaded on a Wednesday morning, watching reruns of Intervention.
Ecolean Liquid Boxes
This pitcher-shaped design is part plastic, part chalk, and all geared up to eliminate packaging waste. It’s lightweight and collapses as you use it, so it’s not just conserving resources, it’s conserving refrigerator space. And the design is sweet, light, creative and catching. Win all around, Ecolean.
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Transformer Studio
Isse Cell Phone
It’s a well-known industry secret that if you want to make something expensive, just make it look expensive; slap a $5 piece of junk into $100 packaging, let some guy with a British accent calmly narrate a dramatically lit TV commercial for it and you won’t be able to keep it on the shelves.
Now, I’m not saying that’s what Transformer Studio in Moscow did with their Isse cell phones but with this chic package, they could have. (Actually, they definitely aren’t trying to fool us; this company is known for their luxurious phones with their gems and diamonds and crazy things that have no business being on phones. I still want one though.)
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5 Responses to 10 Awesome Packaging Designs
Mike D
March 16th, 2010 at 6:57 am
jpg, gif and png are all image files and are standard formats. Try using the GIMP. It is free, though it can be difficult to learn. Then again, I imagine Photoshop is too. The GIMP will create images in all three formats.
Sam
March 18th, 2010 at 6:42 pm
1. first of all u have 2 functions with the same name calculate()
so change those 2 to have 2 different names. because the Browser wouldn't know which one you are referring to when u call Calculate.
I'm guessing the second calculate function is for the second part
so:
function calculate2() {
A = document.frmTwo.txtFirstNumber2.value;
B = document.frmTwo.txtSecondNumber2.options[ document.frmTwo.txtSecondNumber2. selectedIndex].value
C = (A * B)
document.frmTwo.txtThirdNumber2.value = C
}
notice the change:
from frmOne to frmTwo
from txtFirstNumber2.value to txtFirstNumber2.options[ txtFirstNumber2.selectedIndex ]
2. where is the function "CalculateSum"?
3. when accessing a select tag(the combo box) do this:
document.frmOne.txtFirstNumber1.options[ document.frmOne.txtFirstNumber1.selectedIndex ]
instead of document.frmOne.txtFirstNumber1.value;
4. you don't really need 2 forms. just have 1 form.
5. accessing objects the way u do works fine. but i prefer:
document.getElementById('txtFirstNumber') etc…
instead of document.frmOne.txtFirstNumber1. when u use getElementById there are 2 benefits 1st u don't have to know the form the input belongs to as a matter of fact u don't need to have the form. 2nd ly you can pass any value into the getElementById() function meaning programmatically you can access any element. 1 catch though, you must specify the id='' attribute of the tag you're trying to access.
6. last but not least always put ; after each statement. though not necessary it's just bad
7. use mozilla firefox with the addon FireBug.. when mozilla is working fine check on IE. enable debug on IE:
Tools> Internet Options>Advanced> uncheck Disable Script Debugging (both Internet Explorer and Other)
as for the last part.. fix your errors first. then try the last part yourself see what you come up with if you can't handle it come back
Good Luck
Nicole B
March 21st, 2010 at 7:07 pm
I used to hold that men and women were mostly alike and had few real differences only the ones that society told us to have. Then I started working with toddlers. Two and three year old kids have absolutely no pretense. They are who they are all the time.I say a lot of very different behaviors and tendencies. little girls usually did do a lot of playing with dolls and dress up and talked much earlier and were neater. they also held onto hurt feelings much longer. boys usually tended to play blocks and cars and hit more and talk later. but they moved on from conflict much more quickly. I did have boys who played with dolls and girls who played with cars. but often the timing on when certain behaviors occurred was different and a general way of interacting with the world tends to be different for boys and girls. in the end, the older we get, the more we want the same things. but I think than men and women have different perspectives, complimentary talents. If we remind ourselves that we can compliment rather than compete we might just be able to come together as human beings rather than dividing ourselves into boys and girls.
Rick
March 21st, 2010 at 7:20 pm
Try this. Go to a home improvement store and get a 4"x4" board. If you can't find one, two 2×4's cam be glued together. Also get some wooden dowels. Drill some holes at a 45 degree angle along the sides and insert the dowels into the wood. Drill some more on the top making sure to offset the holes from side to side and don't drill them in a straight line. If you do, the bottles may not fit or they will be too far apart, then you can turn your bottles upside down over the dowels.. One other thing to consider is that you may need a wider board to fasten this onto for stability.
Mike D
April 15th, 2010 at 4:39 pm
jpg, gif and png are all image files and are standard formats. Try using the GIMP. It is free, though it can be difficult to learn. Then again, I imagine Photoshop is too. The GIMP will create images in all three formats.