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Final Project: Beverages

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1 Commentby   |  12.10.10  |  student work

Team 1: Becca, Aaron, James, Corey, Caitlyn

Team 2: Rob, Andy, Matt, Scott, Blake

Team 3: Tanner, Britni, Con, Becky, Katherine

Team 4: Bryan, Erika, Jessica, Bonni, Richard

PANTONE Paints

1 Commentby   |  11.01.10  |  student work

Con He

Rob Eagle

Caytlin Crooms

Tanner Freeman

Scott Mise

Corey Hale

Matt Tate

Erika Ito

Britni Golden

UglyMug

0 Commentsby   |  10.19.10  |  student work

Erika Ito

Corey Hale

Con He

Caitlyn Crooms

Blake Arena

Exhibition

1 Commentby   |  10.01.10  |  packaging design

Here’s an interesting idea: an exhibition based on (Japanese-only) packaging design. It’s not always that we see a display of works like this — or how different is that from walking down in an aisle at the grocery store?

http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/exhibit-suupaa-pop#2

Fresh off the… grill

4 Commentsby   |  09.24.10  |  student work

Persuasive Graphic students worked and redesigned Abilene’s own World Famous — Harold’s BBQ. They investigated and considered packaging design as brand identity.

Bryan Couchman

Becky Durham

Bonni Wattigney

Blake Arena

Jessica Floe

Rob Eagle

Blog by AdamsMorioka

0 Commentsby   |  09.20.10  |  graphic design

A great blog for designers, by AdamsMorioka. I had a chance to meet Sean Adams in Hunt, TX during an AIGA Design Ranch with him. Click on image to visit it.

Wood type

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0 Commentsby   |  09.10.10  |  graphic design

Follow this link (and the post) on wood type by Hoefler & Frere-Jones about the history of wood type in America. The Museum of Wood Type has excellent resources on vintage typography/letterpress printing:

The 4th dimension of packageing design

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0 Commentsby   |  08.31.10  |  packaging design

Very short yet intriguing article by Richard Shear. I think you should take a moment and read what he has to say about the new wave of packaging design(ers).

Design with color

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1 Commentby   |  08.27.10  |  graphic design

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Explore, create and share color themes

Discover Adobe® Kuler™ — the web-hosted application for generating color themes that can inspire any project. No matter what you’re creating, with Kuler you can experiment quickly with color variations and browse thousands of themes from the Kuler community.

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Color lovers, we love you!

COLOURlovers™ is a resource that monitors and influences color trends. COLOURlovers gives the people who use color – whether for ad campaigns, product design, or in architectural specification – a place to check out a world of color, compare color palettes, submit news and comments, and read color related articles and interviews.

Turner-Duckworth

1 Commentby   |  08.27.10  |  packaging design

One of my favorite branding/packaging design firms!

http://www.turnerduckworth.com/

Nil Santana's Comment Archive

  1. Nil Santana on Decoder
    4:42 pm, 08.31.10

    Thanks for the post Caitlyn! Yes, TheDecoderRing is a great place for design inspiration, excellent stuff, and the designers there are really great guys as well. I’ve met both Christian and Jeff when I attended an AIGA Design Ranch a few years ago. :)

  2. Nil Santana on Fresh off the... grill
    1:16 pm, 09.25.10

    coming soon Corey… I finished with those pics around 6:30 last night — that’s FRIDAY night. :)

  3. Nil Santana on Coffee Packages
    12:39 pm, 09.24.10

    You’re right, Con — but shouldn’t “7” be the lightest one then? …oooops :P