Student Eli Horn of Arecraft Design has came up with this rather nice looking wooden cigar box concept. And it has won the Applied Arts award for branding recently!
For decades the Japanese have enjoyed the ready-to-drink Ice-Tea, based on the Green Tea leaf which is considered to be a natural way to keep you body and spirit healthy and energetic. In Europe, anti-oxidant rich fruits and vegetables have become increasingly popular and are considered a natural part of a healthy diet. In 2007 a group of Japanese Tea experts met with a European team of drinks´ specialists to create Yoshi Go. The brand identity was developed by Love for art and Business, LA+B of Stockholm Sweden. (AD Sarah Sheppard, PM Frida Berggren, D Magdalena Adaktusson, CD Jonas Lundin)
Chinese book packaging design for ChengDu "Zhong Mo Tang", 成都重墨堂作品, by China's lifestlye photographer, lili chou with a superb usage of textures and typography.
Aspiring design Junfei, who also designed the Nestle ice cream bobblers, had recently came up with a range of interesting packaging called Stitch Em On. This is a package of buttons which encourage people to craft button art on their t-shirts or other medium. The packaging comes with 3 different length of needles, 2 variety colors, 2 color thread, and a booklet or guide which suggest design for the button crafting and teaches how to sew the buttons.
Packaging is one of the most common example of graphic design and the history of packaging design goes right back to the early 19th century where iron and tin plated steel were used to make cans and then paperboard cartons and corrugated fiberboard boxes were first introduced in the late 19th century.
The pictures above shows some of the packaging from the 1950s. You'll be surprised to see some of brands actually maintained their design through the years, so that even after 50 years, you will still go like yep, thats Wrigley's chewing gums in that picture!
These are the newly redesigned tea packaging. China Homeland of Tea has been around me for years and their packaging has really evolved all these years, it is really a waste to throw away those old packagings back then.
Dizen is a design and communication studio based in Mendoza, Argentina.It work in areas such as Branding, Packaging and Multimedia, but I must say it really specializes in Wine Packaging Design. Their subtle approach to the wine packaging are simple yet elegant. Enjoy the pics! Thank you Ignacio for the email!