Archive for May, 2008
Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Installation Art
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Sarah has been making some really interesting installation art lately:
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Ideal Bite
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Ideal Bite offers bite-sized ideas for light green living. They send me a short email everyday with interesting facts about all things green. Pretty sweet and worth checking out!
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Redesign My Breakfast
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While shopping at Target last night I discovered some new and classic designy goodness:
And then I saw the Cheerios box, not sure if this is new…but there was some sort of gold foil stamp on the box which was kind of cool.
6 Comments » - Posted in Graphic Design, Package Design, design by Niki Brown
Monday, May 12th, 2008
Run Forest, Run!
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I’ve been training in preparation for the Dam to Dam 20k (12.4 miles) that takes place on May 31st. Sometimes I think I’m stupid for wanting to do this, but sometimes I get so freaking excited.
I was a runner in highschool (track, cross country) and I sort of miss [...]
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
Cider
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Now this is my kind of clever packaging
Cider (from Swedish brewery, Krönleins Bryggeri AB) features a smart, sideways logo. Nice use of typography—(rather than punctuation)—to create an emoticon effect.
Naming and design, by Stockholm-based Amore.
via box vox
2 Comments » - Posted in Graphic Design, Package Design, Web 2.OH, design, type by Niki Brown
Sunday, May 11th, 2008
Timbuk2 Slant Bag Review
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I had a couple people ask me to write a review on my new slant bag. I’ve been using it for a few weeks and I have to say that I love it! I usually don’t carry around much (cell phone, wallet, keys, mokeskine notebook, pens, pencils, map, etc)with me [...]
