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Inspiring Wine Packaging Collection

noreply@blogger.com (Gabriel Bat) — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:13:00 +0000

A nice video with lots of nice wine packaging from blogs. Inspiring collection, enjoy!

About the author:
Gabriel Bat has background in advertising and now works with communication design at Verdi design (www.verdi.com.br) in Porto Alegre - Brazil. Follow me on Twitter – twitter.com/gabrielbat

Illustration on Photography by Ben Heine

noreply@blogger.com (Ivan Sanford) — Thu, 20 May 2010 16:09:00 +0000

Ben Heine has a nice collection of drawings mixed with photography. Check it out.

Cool Video of the Week #1

noreply@blogger.com (Ivan Sanford) — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 09:19:00 +0000

Presto

Hello everyone! GrayRooster is back to activity! Better, stronger and with a new look! We'll post more frequently since now. With lots of cool stuffs for all of you! Starting with this new post where we'll show you a cool video per week. And the first run is the Pixar's animation: "Presto".

I recently watched the movie WALL-E from Walt Disney and Pixar, and in the bonus section has this short film "Presto". The movie is about a magician and his hungry rabbit, Alec Azam. Doug Sweetland made his directorial debut with the film, and also the two main characters voices.
I found it very funny, well done and the graphic design of credits with the old look are awesome! Hope you enjoy, so here it goes:

About the author: Ivan Sanford is a Graphic Designer from Porto Alegre, Brazil. Lately works as freelancer and blogger of GrayRooster and Planet Remover.
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Best Design Inspiration Sites Ever

noreply@blogger.com (Gabriel Bat) — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:23:00 +0000

If I had to choose only one site for inspiration in different design areas. These would be it. From what I could find till now, these ones are the most interesting and frequently updated blogs. Enjoy!

Logos
Logopond
http://logopond.com/

Print – Editorial
Graphic Exchange
http://www.graphic-exchange.com/home.html

Web & Tutorials
Abduzeedo
http://abduzeedo.com/

Sustainability
Inhabitat
http://www.inhabitat.com/

Package
The Die Line
http://www.thedieline.com/

Product
Core77
http://www.core77.com/

Cool hunting
NotCot
http://www.notcot.org/

Pattern
Print & Pattern
http://printpattern.blogspot.com/

About the author:
Gabriel Bat has background in advertising and now working just with communication design at Verdi design (www.verdi.com.br) in Porto Alegre - Brazil. Follow me on Twitter – twitter.com/gabrielbat

N’ice Cream – Package Review

noreply@blogger.com (Gabriel Bat) — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:10:00 +0000

Here is a collection and analisys (my own) of a research on ice cream packaging. I’m grouping the packaging depending on it’s style for us to see a big picture of where can we designers get doing ice cream packaging projects.

These images were found on these great packaging sites:http://lovelypackage.com/
http://dzinebites.blogspot.com/
http://www.packagingoftheworld.com/
http://packagingworld.blogspot.com/
http://popsop.com/
http://www.thedieline.com/blog/

So, here are the groups i’ve made analysing the images:

Tradicional Ice Cream

No big deal on the layout, well finished, good photos, in general the ice cream we see around.

Unusual Ice Cream

Some stylish packaging with some themes and creativity added. Significancy games and references from other areas have a nice result in these ones…

Funny Ice Cream

Lots of colors, handmade typography, funny elements and gimmiks. (cows seem to be trendy in here)

Luxury Ice Cream

It looks a lot like jewerly, feels like your not fining it easily. Golden snd black are specialy noticed, so as clean and organized layouts and no ice cream photos.

Premium Tradicional Ice Cream

For me, these ones are the coolest, rich, full of ‘apetit appeal’, clean, great product and flavor photos. In my opinion, the most objective selling trhough packaging.

Modern Clean Ice Cream

These last ones are a great inspiration, very modern with some nice illustrations. White, clean and trendy. Here are some student projects too (non commercial).

I hope everybody enjoy the inspiration. Again, these images are from the sites above! Have a n’ice cream!

About the autor:
Gabriel Bat has background in advertising and now workin just with communication design at Verdi design (www.verdi.com.br) in Porto Alegre - Brazil. Follow me on Twitter – twitter.com/gabrielbat

Brazilian Stadiums for 2014 World Cup

noreply@blogger.com (Gabriel Bat) — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:05:00 +0000

Brazil is designing some nice stadiums for the 2014 world cup. these are some of the projects that are intended to be ready for the event.

City: Manaus

City: São Paulo

City: Fortaleza

City: Porto Alegre

City: Brasília

City: Rio de Janeiro

City: Cuiabá
City: Belo Horizonte
City: Natal

City: Salvador

City: Curitiba

City: Recife

Not Just Honey - Package Review

noreply@blogger.com (Gabriel Bat) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:29:00 +0000

Some really cool packaging for this ordinary (not anymore) product.

I'm commenting some pictures I've collected from nice packaging sites (listed below) just to have a panoramic view of the trends on packaging for this sweet category.

Using Beehive forms and colors - Bees, black & yellow, flowers and hexagons. These elements are the most common to represent the product. Almost all of the packaging pictures we've got here has at least one of these. On the other hand, some very clean projects show much of the product itself inside, what makes it clear for a client that doesn't see any flower, bees or hexagons, what he is about to buy (so very important).

Treated as wine - Honey different flavors depend on the flowers next to the beehives, they can be sweeter, bitter, healthier (depending on the minerals on it), as we see, this 'flavors' are treated in packaging just like a special wine grape variety. That adds a lot of added value on a product that used to be 'just honey'.

Clean labels - Some very clean labels also call attention. Based on esthetics from other categories, like perfumes for example, these packaging give honey a new status. As I said, honey itself is a very good looking product, its variety composed calls attention on an interesting yellow color scheme.

These images were found on these great packaging sites: http://lovelypackage.com/
http://dzinebites.blogspot.com/
http://www.packagingoftheworld.com/
http://packagingworld.blogspot.com/
http://popsop.com/
http://www.thedieline.com/blog/

Brand New Brands

noreply@blogger.com (Gabriel Bat) — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:47:00 +0000

Some rebranding from the last 2 years, nice collection from identityworks.com