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December 17th, 2009

Annual reports are yum

I just wanted to share this little gem which shows what amazing things can be achieved when you have a creative agency and an open-minded client. Croatian creative agency Bruketa & Zinić have designed an annual report for food company Podravka, the biggest food company in South-East Europe, that has to be baked in an [...]

Filed under: Branding, Finance, Materials in design, Technology, marketing, packaging | Comment (0)
December 9th, 2009

B_E_E Clever

I spied this clever marketing on a series of postcards in an eco store in Bellingen, NSW.

B_E_E – ‘Beauty Engineered for Ever’ is a range of cleaning products from New Zealand and these postcards perfectly embodies their drive to be “designed for pleasure, function and the environment”. I just love the way they have interacted [...]

Filed under: Advertising, Branding, Business, Materials in design, marketing, packaging, typography | Comment (0)
October 12th, 2009

Lola Marc Jacobs

I went on a mission over the weekend to find a new perfume. I have used the same one for some time now and the bottle is nearing empty.
I searched high and low in my quest to find the ultimate perfume, before I stumbled across the most creative perfume bottle and lid I have ever [...]

Filed under: Advertising, Branding, Business, Events, Uncategorized, packaging | Comment (1)
October 2nd, 2009

iSnack 2.0

The result of the Vegemite ‘name me’ competition is out and it is officially and unanimously hated by its Australian customers. Out of the 35,074 suggestions made, apparently ‘iSnack 2.0’ was the best. Dean Robbins, the graphic and web designer who came up with the name, says he was inspired by his love of technology and vegemite. [...]

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September 7th, 2009

Tricky Toblerone!

It turns out that Toblerone bars are clever as well as yummy! I don’t know if it’s just me, but I have never noticed the hidden message in the logo. I have always presumed that the symbol quite simply represented Matterhorn mountain in the Swiss Alps, but recently, as I chomped away, I happened to [...]

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