Where there is smoke, there is fire

Designed by Cuby Gerards and Karin Langeveld of Trapped in Suburbia, based in The Netherlands.

"Where there is smoke, there is fire" is a publication about the old Caballero Cigarette factory, which has been transformed into a creative work area. Where once cigarettes where made, now creatives projects are made by architects, photographers, industrials designers, graphic designers, web designers etc.
The back of the cover and the typography on the front is silkscreen printed with matchbox structure, so you can light a match with the book. In the book we've used several different papers that represent the different textures in the building.

H&M

Designed by BVD.

Roger Linders

Snack sauces for kids.

Packaging design for a home brand of coffee.

Ready-to-use meat and sauce for the microwave

Designed by Roger Linders,a Dutch freelance designer with experience over 15 years of experience based in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Babicka Vodka

Thanks to Arran Russell of Babicka for sending in his beautiful vodka bottle. It contains the Original Wormwood Vodka, a 500 year-old Czech witches brew, which Babicka revived.

The sleek design of the Babicka bottle is a contemporary interpretation on the medicine bottles of old. Harking back to the babickas with their bottled tonics and tinctures, our design features a wooden stopper and simple 'handwritten' black on white labeling.

The overall design of the bottle is long and lean. Clean lines and cool frosted glass echo the purity and smoothness of the vodka showcased within. A green 'thujone-ometer' down one side of the neck marks the amount of thujone allowed by law in each bottle.

The Babicka bottle with its long, narrow neck is perfectly weighted for even pouring, making it a favourite of discerning bar staff.

Nap+

Designed by our friend, Kris Tsao. Nap+ is a promotional napping kit designed for a nap service company in New York. Targets to 28-35 yo mid-income male.

Kris started his design career as a freelancer designing for art & culture organizations and restaurants. He is currently a designer at KCSA Strategic Communications, a New York based creative agency that specializes in branding and integrated marketing. Before joining KCSA, he interned at Ceft and Company New York and BFG Communications in 2007 and gained experiences on consumer product and life style branding. The clients he has worked on includes Wendy's Arby's Group, Hess Energy, T.G.I. Friday's, Bailly’s, ING and many other national corporations.

SAKÉ

Designed by B&T Design.

NUGALI

Designed by Jefferson Reuter Quint based in Joinville, Brazil.

Gotta Moo (Student Work)

Designed by Narani Kannan, she is a recent graduate from Ontario College of Art & Design with a B.DES in Graphic Design. Gotta Moo’s package focuses on the most eco-friendly method for milk packaging. This greener milk packaging solution will be made out of Sugarcane Bagasse molded pulp paper, coated inside with sugarcane lignin and printed with vegetable based inks, all based on food safe materials. Bagasse is an annually renewable plant resource and is compostable and recyclable. This can replace plastic and plastic coated packaging, which is currently used in the food/beverage industry today. This packaging solution does not rely on oil extraction and it also minimizes green house gas emissions. This new molded pulp milk packaging solution could be an eco-friendly vision of the future.

This is only a hypothetical research & design final-year school project

How will this new milk packaging solution benefit us and the planet?

Bagasse is normally seen as a waste product and incinerated, thus creating air pollution. Making a milk package out of residual sugarcane fiber actually decreases air pollution, adds value to the package, it is environmentaly friendly and is a non-invasive resource. The use of bagasse, a renewable resource, helps prevent the destruction of 30,000 acres of forest land every year. This greener solution can replace plastic bottles and virgin tree based, paper laminated cartons, replacing it with a new alternative sugarcane lignin coating.

This material can stand temperatures up to 190 degrees Fahrenheit, is microwavable and freezer safe and extremely hygenic, having been sterilized and sanitized and exposed to high temperatues during the molding process. Sugarcane Bagasse is one of the most plentiful by products of the sugar production process, and for every ton of refined sugar produced, there are two tons of bagasse produced as well. Bagasse is extremely light weight and has excellent performance characteristics.

Bagasse is in itself an agricultural waste, it is represented as 100% recycled material. There is an abundant supply of bagasse in the world. What better way is there to make a milk paper carton than using abundant, sustainable, clean material made from agricultural waste!

When designing my package I wanted to have maximum shelf impact. I wanted to attract and target consumers as they walk down an aisle full of milk packages to motivate them and pick up Gotta Moo’s package. My goal was to incorporate fresh bold and lucid colors and also maintain the current color palette for milk flavors. Each carton has large readable text with fun, tasty and mouth-watering words, which describes milk as an enjoyable nutritious beverage, but also educates consumers about its package and how it benefits their health and the environment.

Absinthe by Couvet

Designed by Alexis Champa.
Absinthe, in terms of history and experience, is a pretty nifty beverage. The goal was to create a brand that compares to the experience and easily appeals to the people and market who are currently buying it. It comes in three grades which reflect the percent of alcohol.

Flowessence (Student Work)

Rômulo Castilho designed this beautiful perfume for his academic project.

Ephit Vodka Bottles

Designed by Mallory Roynon, recently graduated in May 2009 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design.

"I created the logo/identity for this brand of vodka (Ephit) as well as the packaging. Each flavor is a different story created by myself and those close to me. The front label is a story that one might say "ephit" to, but the back is a story of the same situation if done differently; hence the mixed solution on the back label.

This project was done in a graphic design theory class. The project was to create something based off of the film, "Run Lola Run." My idea was bad things happen, but how can they be turned around and done differently. What would the outcomes be? What would solve the problem? The class answer to my questions was alcohol. Hence my solution to the film and the questions I asked."

L’Or de Jean Martell Cognac

Thanks to Dragon Rouge for updating us about their latest work - ‘ultra-premium’ cognac: L’Or de Jean Martell.

Taken from the press release :

Already one of the world’s leading brands of cognac and enjoying growing success in Asia, Martell is actively pursuing its strategy of expanding its presence in the world of luxury goods. For this reason, the company has decided to launch an ultra-premium product designed to embody the very essence of Martell cognacs and express the spirit of the brand among a target of exclusive connoisseurs.
L’Or de Martell will be competing against the most luxurious cognacs to become Martell’s sublime ‘more than perfect’ product.

To give full expression to the brand’s noble pedigree, Martell entrusted Dragon Rouge with the privilege of creating not only a packaging design for this ultra-premium product but also a narrative about the brand, which has been a loyal partner of the agency for many years, having already entrusted Dragon Rouge with the task of creating the new, highly successful market positioning for its XO product.
Three major challenges guided the creative research carried out by Dragon Rouge:
- Adopt the codes used by ultra-premium cognacs,
- Address extremely demanding consumers who share different cultural backgrounds (Russia, USA, China) yet who all delight in showing off their status and distinction.
- Lastly, remain consistent with the values defended by Martell and expressed in the other products in the range.

Based on a unique product that is exceptional in all respects and epitomizes the quintessence of the know-how acquired and developed by the brand for more than 250 years, the agency decided to make L’Or de Martell the fulfillment of the inventive and determined quest of Jean Martell to create his magnus opus.
For Dragon Rouge, this cognac draws its inspiration from a golden age in which exceptional know-how is wedded with ornamental elegance to give visible expression to perfect harmony. The agency proceeded to work around the concept of the Golden Number, leading the designers to imagine a bottle fashioned from pure crystal in which the precious liquid is concentrated in a single droplet suspended from an arch decorated by “Martell” arabesques in gold. The stopper, which also bears graphic elements comprising the Martell name, completes this ensemble with its semi-circular shape that both complements and enhances the balance of the object’s extremely voluptuous curves.
This bottle is the epitome of a creative and technical feat, the fruit of close collaboration with the Cristallerie de Sèvres glassworks.
And to crown it all, the bottle is presented in a casket that expresses the true sophistication of the brand (mole coloured textile with a metallic finish, decorated with the identity of L’Or de Martell).

With L’Or de Martell, Dragon Rouge combines its expertise in product innovation with its mastery of the very special codes prevailing in the world of high luxury.
Launched first of all in the United States and now available in Asia, this ultra-precious cognac has already enjoyed outstanding success all over the world.

Arthur Schreiber

Stunning design by Arthur Schreiber, a designer from Moscow.

"I especially love to do packaging for alcoholic and other beverages. All my work and free time i give to vodka' s and other drinks design (very interesting specialization) . I' m spent more than 10 years by packaging. I like everything creative, interesting and new."

Lola's Kitchen

Designed by Campbell Hay

"Lola’s Kitchen bake yummy cupcakes and bring them round to your house. The obvious popularity of this idea meant Lola’s needed a strong brand identity to help support their growth.
We coined the line ‘Hand Crafted Cupcakes’ to communicate the essence of what they do, and designed them an identity to illustrate the nature of their business across all media, from a sugar coated logo to pastel coloured stationery and packaging, and even – quite literally – the icing on the cake"

via: TheDieline

Vitamin

Robert Ferrell designed this series of Vitamin packages, working on typographic hierarchy and the 3D form.

Qbel

Designed by Louise Fili.
The package for Qbel, a new line of natural chocolates, had to look fun and trigger the taste buds. The lettering and image are influenced by the German “Object Poster” of the 1900s.