Lovers

Check out my other blog, This is For Lovers, which is filled with the work I have done in art and in the last 2 years of RMIT Visual Merchandising.
I finish next week!!

Rest In Peace

In loving memory of my, now, long lost appendix, which departed my body on Wednesday 6th October 2010 after rupturing itself silly.

A super cool magazine called Appendix, which is available for download from their site. Their site also has a blog full of art, fashion and design goodness, as well as a shop full of hand chosen, vintage garments.

A sample of the kind of thing Appendix offers:

Milk cartons by Dutch artist, Matrijs van Merg.

Nice Jugs.

Some lovely bottle design and packaging.

Bottle design for Hwila mineral water of Sweden by Neumeister. Neumeister have tonnes of lovely work on their site. I think these bottles really reflect their contents, they look clean and refreshing.


Concept design for Forgeron Beer Designed by Dmitri Kuznetsov and visualized by Pavel Gubin and Naming by Ilya Milovanov for the Trudot community. The bottle top resembles the froth on top of a jug, a nice touch.


Knuthenlund is a Danish company that produce organic farmed products such as cheese and milk and have recently developed organic milk, the bottle design is reminiscent of old style glass bottles but with a beautifully delicate print on the front. I think it suits the brand perfectly.


Concept design for organic honey by Marcel Buerkle. I love how it strays away from taditional honey packaging shapes and avoids use of the obvious color - yellow and goes for a very subtle gold on white. It's so beautiful it looks like a skin/hair care product.


Crystal Head Vodka is a company founded by actor Dan Aykroyd and artist John Alexander. The name and bottle shape is based on the 13 Crystal skulls which have been found all around the world and all the myths and theories behind where they originate from and their alleged powers. A very cool concept. I especially like the wooden lid on the bottle.

Inspiration?

Lacking inspiration?
Maybe you need the inspiration pad by graphic design group TM...

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Tasteful Australiana.

Tasteful Australiana is so rare, it's hard to escape from all the koala fridge magnets, wooden Australia shaped cribbage boards and tacky Parliment House shot glasses, but Australian husband and wife design team Poulier & Poulier have come up with something a little better.

These charming Captain Cook and Sir Joseph Banks silhouette prints come in cards (shown below), tea towels and tote bags and they're all designed, printed and produced in Australia.

Available at http://poulierandpoulier.com.au/

Oh, Ikea.

Pet hate: 'art' from department stores that is mass produced and generally heinous.

Exception: Olunda by Ikea.

I find myself not hating it, but actually kind of wanting it, despite the fact there are probably several million of them floating about.

Though a much more appealing idea is making something similar myself and it being totally one of a kind.

http://www.ikea.com/au/en/catalog/products/60168181