Oronoco Rum

Love the embossed leather label. This is a well-done product, from top to bottom. Bravo.

via the Dieline.

A Fig

“I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity.”

~Oliver Wendell Holmes

Olga Feldman

Super.

Sanjuro/Yojimbo

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.

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Two Thousand Ten

Aina is the Hawaiian word for land and for me 2010 is a year of reconnecting to the earth. In 2009, we experienced a year filled with financial problems, political tensions and fear in the media… As a forest sometimes burns, new life regrows in its place. While we may have had a year of burning I feel like the soil we have to grow out of is fertile and full of growth.

-Mark Boulton

At least I think Mark Boulton wrote that on Colourlovers. I can’t seem to find it  now, but I scribbled it on some paper and I like it more and more each day. I believe the quote was in reference to the color he chose as the color of 2010. Apparently, Pantone decided it’s turquoise.

Walden Poster

This wonderful poster is for sale over on Society6 for $50. Worth every penny. (via Kitsune Noir)

Cravendale Milk by Sanna Annukka

Love these cartons by Sanna Annukka for Cravendale Milk.

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Where Print & Interactive Collide

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.

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Pale Horse Design

Chris Parks, aka Pale Horse Design, does some amazing work.

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Adobe Illustrator: Fading Out Shadows

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).