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.

Smoking is Cool.

The new packaging design for Vogue cigarettes is lovely.
Obviously inspired by swirling cigarette smoke, the new packaging, designed by Slava Fedutik, is modern and colourful and really uses the packaging the way it should be used. Because it is illegal to advertise cigarettes and stores are not allowed to display them it seems that cigarette companies need to work harder at making their packet visible when in use and making it something that is desirable to carry, a fashion accessory of sorts. Vogue has always used fashion in their branding, from the minimalist all white coloring of the cigarettes to their long narrow shape and slim packet.


The packaging and design of the cigarettes makes you feel as though you will be oh so chic and sexy when smoking them, like the image below.


In reality you probably won't unless you're a gorgeous, slim, French woman. You'll probably just end up with mouth cancer, which is not such a sexy look. But who wants to dwell on that?

There is a blog devoted to images of people looking ridiculously cool whilst smoking, Le Smoking. Beautiful photos.

The Cure for Ugly Branding

Have you ever wanted your medication and remedies in a stylish little box covered in minimalist yet brilliant branding? No? Well you can get it now anyway.
Help has designed some fantastic packaging to go around some supposedly fantastic remedies (I've not tried them so I really can't comment).

The idea?
From the website, 'Help Remedies was created to make solving simple health issues simple. We find the best solution there is, and take away everything else. By stripping away some of the complexity and fear mongering of the health industry, we hope to make medicine friendlier and more accessible, and in doing so empower people to make their own health decisions.'

And the packaging doesn't just look good. It's environmentally friendly, mostly made out of corn in fact.

Help's website is great too, it is informative and easy to read and actually quite funny (think Nudie juice or Vitamin Water), it even has a section for when you're bored where you can create and buy your own help t-shirt, solve other people's problems and let Help solve your random, non-medical problems.
You can buy packs online for US$4or six packs fr US$20. That said, the shipping is US$14.55 if you live in Australia, making the whole thing not so worth while. Hopefully Help products will be available here soon.