Oronoco Rum
Posted: March 8th, 2010 | Author: craig | Filed under: Design, Inspiration, Misc. | Tags: Design, Inspiration, packaging, product | No Comments »Love the embossed leather label. This is a well-done product, from top to bottom. Bravo.
Sanjuro/Yojimbo
Posted: February 9th, 2010 | Author: craig | Filed under: Design, Illustration, Inspiration | Tags: Design, illustrator, Inspiration, packaging, product | No Comments »I came across these covers for two of Akira Kurosawa’s best flicks the other day while looking for another one of his films on Netflix. Love them.
Walden Poster
Posted: December 15th, 2009 | Author: craig | Filed under: Design, Illustration | Tags: Design, Illustration, Inspiration, poster, product | No Comments »
This wonderful poster is for sale over on Society6 for $50. Worth every penny. (via Kitsune Noir)
Cravendale Milk by Sanna Annukka
Posted: December 7th, 2009 | Author: craig | Filed under: Design, Illustration, Inspiration | Tags: Design, Illustration, Inspiration, packaging, product | No Comments »Love these cartons by Sanna Annukka for Cravendale Milk.
Where Print & Interactive Collide
Posted: November 20th, 2009 | Author: craig | Filed under: Design, Inspiration, Musings | Tags: Design, Inspiration, web | 1 Comment »Patagonia decided to scrap their printed catalog and instead debuted an entirely online catalog yesterday. They’re certainly not the first company to do this. But it re-ignited a conversation I’ve been running in my head about the possibilities that interactivity bring to works that would traditionally be print-only. From the Kindle to the iPod to traditional browsers, the way that we tell a story or sell a product should never be the same.
Halloween Cans for Jones Soda
Posted: October 30th, 2009 | Author: craig | Filed under: Design, Illustration, Inspiration | Tags: holiday, Illustration, Inspiration, product | 2 Comments »
Love these cans by SuperBig Creative for Jones Soda (via the Dieline). Happy Halloween!
Update 10/31/09: I’m drinking the Candy Corn flavor right now, and it’s pretty delicious. Just thought you should know. DesignBrawl approved.
Adobe Illustrator: Fading Out Shadows
Posted: October 23rd, 2009 | Author: craig | Filed under: Design, Illustration, Tutorial | Tags: adobe, Design, howto, Illustration, illustrator | 2 Comments »Here’s a quick tutorial where I run through using the opacity mask in Illustrator to create transparent shadows that fade out to nothing. I can remember when I first started drawing in Illustrator it took longer than I care to admit before I realized that a gradient didn’t have to have two colors (ok, it does but it doesn’t have to appear that way).
Martin Ansin’s Phantom of the Opera
Posted: October 19th, 2009 | Author: craig | Filed under: Design, Illustration, Inspiration | Tags: Illustration, illustrator, Inspiration, poster | No Comments »Here’s a beautifully rendered poster for the Phantom of the Opera at the Alamo Drafthouse by Martin Ansin.
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The Orange Chair
Posted: October 2nd, 2009 | Author: craig | Filed under: Design, Freebie, Illustration | Tags: adobe, Design, Freebie, Illustration, illustrator | No Comments »I’m not sure what I was planning to do with this drawing. I’m pretty sure I was just drawing it for a screencast that I ended up not using. Anyway, I’m giving away the .ai file in the hopes that somebody has a use for it.
Here’s a link to the .ai file.
The Animals by Nacho Gil
Posted: September 30th, 2009 | Author: craig | Filed under: Design, Illustration, Inspiration | Tags: Illustration, Inspiration, poster | No Comments »I absolutely love these crystallized illustrations of wild animals by Nacho Gil.
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