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Tison Incense

 

When you can visually explain a product's purpose without words, you've got a solid concept for packaging. The burned-looking edges of Tison incense packaging clearly explain the product's function - to burn as incense. I discovered this concept for Tison incense from the portfolio of Quebec student, Louis Beaudoin. He is a recent graduate of UQAM (Université du Québec à Montréal). Incidentally, the students at UQAM are putting out some pretty solid work in packaging. Sylvain Allard, who is professor of graphic design at UQAM, runs a great blog that often features his own student's work in packaging. Worth a look: packaging | UQAM

 

Bold City Brewery

 

 

 

My love for food often leads me to Serious Eats. Today I was happily surprised to see a fun beer label design. Jacksonville, Florida-based Bold City Brewery has labels that keep their Florida location on the mind. Designed by The Robin Shepherd Group.

Portland General Store

I like to check out Etsy from time to time - they have the best handmade items. Thousands of sellers have shops that feature everything from handmade jewelry to organic body care products. Packaging is usually not a strong point for many Etsy sellers - many are just do-it-yourself folk without much branding experience.

So, when I came across Portland General Store's packaging, it was a pleasant surprise. Lisa Brodar makes a wide range of body care products ranging from skin creams to fragrances for men and women. She designed the labels herself, which is pretty impressive considering she can create the product and the look for it, too.

I've selected some of my favorites from her etsy store for men and women. Hope you like these as much as I do! I now have to go find something to sample from her shop...

Green & Spring

A new luxury brand designed by Pearlfisher, so of course it's lovely:

"The brief was to work with A Curious Group of Hotels (which includes Cowley Manor and its C.Side spa in the Cotswolds, L’Hotel and Le Restaurant on the Left Bank in Paris, and The Corner Club, a private members’ club in the centre of Oxford) to launch a new retail beauty range.
  
The GREEN & SPRING collection is a new, natural bath and body range of handmade products inspired by the idyllic English countryside and above all the spectacular C.Side spa and Cowley Manor estate in Gloucestershire.   
The design needed to work within this framework to capture the magic and uniqueness of the product and focuses on the countryside and namely the birds that can be spotted within the British Isles.
 
Each product, within the three ranges, is characterised by an individual British bird and segmented by individual colour palettes that are directly linked to the emotions associated with them. The 'Indulging' products are inspired by warming  hues of reds, pinks and oranges, the 'Relaxing' products focus on softer and more romantic shades such as purples and greys with the 'Revitalising' range engaging the senses with zesty yellows and greens.    
 
The front of pack copy forms part of the design story and highlights the key ingredients and their benefits for each product, bringing a ‘poetic clarity’ to the overall visual world of GREEN & SPRING.  
 
Jessica Frankopan, Owner of A Curious Group of Hotels, commented, “We were really excited to work with Pearlfisher and they totally delivered on our brief in an original and innovative way. We are delighted with the end result and think that our GREEN & SPRING products look fantastic.”

The bath and body range of GREEN & SPRING launched in June 2009 exclusively with Liberty and online at www.greenandspring.com."     

Daylesford and Hepburn Mineral Springs Co.

Daylesford and Hepburn Mineral Springs Co. is a Melbourne-based company:

"We Are the bottlers and distributors of mineral water from the mineral springs capital of Australia. Fed up with seeing imported water on the tables of  local cafes and restaurants, and water from our area being trucked out and being bottled in Melbourne and beyond with no benefit for our local community, we decided to do something about it....

Our products are natural, beautiful, and local. All of our production takes place in the “Spa Country” and all of our packaging is made from within 100 kilometres of the spring. Where ever possible we use recycled materials. We  only bottle in glass and are always investigating more efficient and environmentally friendly packaging techniques.

 We employ local people to value add a local resource for the benefit of the local community. Our broader aim is to offer Melburnians, Victorians, and Australians the opportunity to choose between a beautiful local product and imported ones (from up to 16000 kilometres away) that are triumphs of lifestyle marketing spin. Now more than ever the decision to purchase locally produced food, that is created, grown or manufactured by locally owned businesses instead of imported foods or foods manufactured by multi- national companies is an immensely important one."

The most recent additions are Lemon, Orange & Passionfruit, Pink Grapefruit, Blood Orange, Apple. They contain no cane sugar, no sodium benzoate (preservative 211) no artificial colours or flavors.

See more after the jump.

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byAMT Studio Jewelry Packaging

 

byAMT Studio is a product design studio based in Brooklyn, NY. Alissia (who is the designer behind byAMT) sent me these great photos of the packaging she designed for her awesome rings. (We 'met' on twitter!)

In her words: "The white packaging is made from museum board, letter pressed, glued together (layers of the museum board), die cut and last but not least, edged with either white or gold "bands" like a book. They're all kept together with a set of rubber bands.

The black packaging is also museum board, not glued just kept in loose layers, so depending on the thickness of the ring there are more or less layers of the museum board. Each piece is laser cut and the text and ring shape are laser etched. Again these are kept together with rubber bands."

What I liked so much about this packaging is that the artist designed it herself - the structure/shape really ties into the core design of her jewelry concept. The rings are like flat silhouette 'cutouts' that are cast from precious metals (gold, silver or platinum). Their flat nature make them more suited for packing sideways, rather than the traditional 'face up' orientation of ordinary ring boxes.

 

Bellatazza Cafe TO-GO Cups

More work from Buzzsaw Studios for Oregon based Bellatazza. "TO-GO cups for most cafes are just that, a simple TO-GO cup that is poorly desigend or plain with a rubber stamped name or logo. Bellatazza from day one more than 5 years ago has been using the TO-GO cup as a conversation piece. Every 3 months or so Buzzsaw Studios will design a new cup to replace the current one as they run out. Each design is themed with current events or a cause that the Owner is involved with. Patrons to the cafe have come to expect new cup art on a regular basis. economical form of branding, Bellatazza has received much more mileage than an traditional form of advertising or marketing. People don't expect to be drinking from a piece of art when they get their coffee beverage TO-GO."

Details after the jump

Ikea Family Body Care Packaging

I really liked this package design for Ikea shower creme and body lotion. The most interesting detail is the expression of the product name in no less than 16 languages on the front of the package. It makes it into a design element that enhances the look, rather than the usually hard-to-fit-in multilingual packaging copy you see on some products. Another nice touch is the hole near the top for hanging in the shower.