Love is sometimes strange, I’m sure we all know that by now but what is StrangeLove? Well my friends, let me first set the scene. Marx Designwere tasked with packaging StrangeLove into a gift piece that cafe owners would want to display on their counter. The problem being, StrangeLove is in fact an energy drink. And we all know what that conjures up in a designers mind, 2 for $5 star bursts, bright shouty colours and vomit […]
Lovely trinkets from Melbourne gem The Company You Keep. Handsomely said from the horses’ mouth “from development and application to execution, we work with our clients to ensure their brand’s resonance and continued success, because you are the company you keep”. Nice, see what they did there? Beautifully balanced layouts, finely poised typography and a wonderful arrangement of space give their work a lovely pace. Inhale. Exhale. Enjoy. Aaaah. There we go. Check them out n’ give them a […]
It seems Auckland is the place to be for tasty design these days, adding to our recent post on the lovely Hardhat we now have packaging specialists Curious to introduce to you. With a generous handful of international packaging awards under their belts, these guys know their stuff. Recent lovelies include a big old shake up of New Zealand favourite Phoenix Drinks. With the name now well and truly etched in Kiwis’ brains (once you’ve […]
Founded back in 2000, Hardhat Design is NZ and Brit design couple Nik + Jen who run an absolute nugget of a studio and service clients from bases in both London and Auckland. Their work has included brand/identity development, illustration, web & e-commerce development, and design for packaging, print, publication & web. Meeting in London in the late 90’s, and after several years each at various design and advertising agencies working on jobs for large corporate […]
Milk have been buzzing away under the surface for years however recent projects for the likes of 1Above and Health Basics have firmly cemented their position on the Auckland packaging design circuit. Wander through most airports now and you will see a 1Above above stand. The drink brand is a world first, aiming to help you fly and travel better. Milk worked across all facets of the launch including naming. With this little beauty under […]
We started this little blog of ours as simply a bit of a social experiment and a way of cataloguing all the great stuff we unearthed the world over. And there’s a lot of great stuff out there. Every now and then however, you unearth a little gem. Without naming names we think there’s already quite a few graphical trinkets within these four virtual walls, but recently we fell upon these beguiling buccaneers, namely IWANT. Plying […]
Huge fan. Huge. Of Texas’ finest Helms Workshop. Huge, for emphasis. True craftsmen of the all-Americana typographic cunning, an art that I’ve always found absorbing. Back to Helms, naturally an award-winning creative firm with a broad range of clients but for me, it’s their packaging work that’s particularly right on point. Helms “combine smart, strategic thinking with wild-eyed creativity in a highly collaborative environment, producing powerful ideas and unexpected solutions that bring big results to businesses […]
Glorious work from Rotterdam based Studio Dumbar who’s work, incredibly includes the visual identity of the Dutch police, back in the early 90’s. Their recently relaunched site houses a body of work that amounts to a menagerie of amazing aesthetics each as inspiring and challenging as the last. As well as having Dutch roots, you can more recently find their offices in Shanghai and Seoul with the studio having originally being founded back in 1977. Tw. @studiodumbar