Here are some of the best ideas and creative finds that we’ve been excited by this week.
Beautiful apothecary-style packaging design for Noble Handcrafted Tonics, created by Heather Nguyen. Distributed by Mikuni Wild Harvest in the USA and Canada, Noble is an exclusive range of vinegars and maple syrups which are apparently being used in high end restaurants and favoured by innovative chefs. There are currently five products in the range and each one has been carefully crafted, containing exquisite sounding ingredients or production methods such as ‘Tahitian Vanilla’ and ‘Egyptian Chamomile Blossom’, or ‘aged in Bourbon oak barrels from the Tuthilltown Distillery in New York State’. More pics and details on If It’s Hip, It’s Here.
This is a brilliant if slightly scary design for a deckchair, created by Bernhard Burkard, which relies on friction and the force of gravity to keep the sitter upright. I still want to try it out, even though it’s a sort of unnerving version of a relaxing chair. Found via Dornob.
Maybe we stumbled across this a bit late, as this was part of Guus Baggermans’ graduation project in 2009. But great ideas last, so I think this is still worth sharing. This Friendly Vending machine adds an emotional connection to a simple purchase, as well as adding a playful element for the consumer. I love the way the cans come to life, and seem to be looking at the buyer, as if to say ‘who, me?’. Thanks to Chris for pointing out this one.
Friendly Vending V2 from Guus Baggermans on Vimeo.
This is a brilliant find from Zayne – The Colour Of is a site which allows you to enter any search terms and it generates a colour based on a number of images within its archive. So it was interesting that the site’s idea of ‘Summer’ was this:
When actually here in London for the past week it has felt more like this:
She did confess that it may have appealed as a result of her current mother hen state, but thanks to Claire, who kindly sent this in in spite of being off on maternity leave with Baby Robertshaw No. 2. This new packaging for Falcon Enamelware, created as a collaboration between Morse Studio and Kiwi&Pom has a lovely simple and nostalgic idea behind it, and the illustrations and the look and feel of the photography shot from above links the idea together rather nicely. Found via Creative Review Blog.
