What's Up With That?

Today's morning trip to Starbucks was eventful. At first I found this really cool cd packaging that I really liked but alas, I lacked the funds. Then I discovered these tiny little newspapers called Good that Starbucks gives away for free and each week they discuss some different issue. This week was Gas Prices. I thought the tiny newspaper idea was awesome. I showed it to my coworker and he showed me last week's issue, Immigration. I was a bit disturbed by the illustration though. Notice on the Mexican border they show army men with rifles, barbed wire and attack dogs. The Canadian border has playful puppies anad they even have toys to entertain them while "guarding" the border. So it's got me asking, Hey Starbucks, whats up with that?

Adina Organics

Tasty beverages, oh joy! I recently bought myself an Adina Organics Lavender Lemonade at Cost Plus and it was pretty tasty if I do say so myself. At first I was just attracted to the hand painted style of the packaging. but was pleasantly surprised at how good it was and by the good it does. Adina works with small farmers, co-ops and collectives to encourage fair trade and sustainable, organic practices.

Printing Ersatz

This is via the dailyheller. The piece you see above is a sample of ersatz created by Germany and Austria after WWI. After the war these countries experienced severe financial struggles. Cities began printing and distributing their own bartering money called ersatz. It helped a lot of designers at the time get noticed and it's really interesting to see these pieces now in our own time of financial struggle.

Hello Monday

This weekend was a busy one, lots of preparing for this week. One of my projects was designing some engagement announcements for sister. She's getting married soon, er...soonish in 2010 actually. But the wedding is going to be abroad, hence the early preparation. Here are some snippets of the engagement announcements I've designed for them. It'll be a beach wedding with bright tropical colors, love the hot pink and orange! You wouldn't think the combination would work but it really does. I've also made the whimsical little illustrations of the couple which really resemble them pretty well. I'm pretty happy with the result; we'll be printing on linen paper and enclosing them in mango hued envelopes. I'll post pictures of the finished product soon!

Purell Ads

I came across these little lovelies via Design You Trust. Such cool ads, I love these. Done for Purell by JWT out of Sydney, Australia. Fantastic!