Thursday the 8th of April, my latest (impulse) buy arrived! I even had to answer the door in my dressing gown – poor postman haha
The Helvetica Tshirt from American Apparel Online, Nn.
It was such a beautiful day so I rolled the sleeves up and went outside to enjoy some rays…
I’m too scared to cut it up just yet – going to practice on a cheap tshirt first to get the right shape 
Watch this font, I mean space
Filed under Cool Stuff, Fashion, Graphic Design, Me, Typography
I am still armed with enough packaging goodies to post, only a month after the last packaging special!
So, let’s start with something striking…
You can’t deny that black and white is just striking! Blink sparkling wine bottle is striking, elegant and fashion conscious – stripes are supposedly slimming AND Nautical is IN at the moment Annnnnnd my favourite colour is purple
Here are 4 words I never thought I would see in the same sentence: Pentagram for Budgens/Londis
WHAT?!!??? Pentagram + Cornershop(Londis)/supermarket(Budgens) vodka = Disbelief
I mean, don’t get me wrong, I love the work… it’s simple but illustratively beautiful… but its for Londis/Budgens!? Fairplay to them for trying to make their cheap alcohol look expensive, but as the saying goes… looks can be deceiving!
And next… something a bit more spicey for your palate:
by student Genevieve Cote. I expressed my liking for triangular textures in the last packaging post (the flower packaging) and still feel the same… which is why I love these! Why have a boring square box when you can have a cute triangular one!? They fit together too
Ok, before you scroll down for this next one… first look at it from far away and then close up – ok?
This can design by Ramm is clever! First thoughts? It’s a woman’s crotch - dislike!
But then I looked at the details… the paved road, the men in walking to their jobs, the lights in the buildings, the smoke coming from the chimney, the misleading first impressions – I really like this because it makes you look twice, there’s no denying that!
Lintar is oil… ordinary, yes. But I like the use of 1 fluid line which reminds me of oil leaking. I also like the colours – the creamy greeny colour is calming? It just ooooooozes niceness?
And lastly, something that made me smile – another clever one!
What do you think of if I say DIY tools? Orange and black? Yellow and Black? Elephants, Goats, Crocodiles? No, I didn’t think so! But look at these…
‘Knack’ is the work of Marc Monguilod… another student – I’m glad that students are getting publicity and J’adore it
There are more in the series but these were my faves. View the rest here
Let me know if you smiled at this too – just comment with – do it!!
Filed under Graphic Design, J'adore, Packaging, Typography
10 days ago I said this:
‘And I am promising myself that this time will be different to all the other holidays! Usually I just laze about, and get out of practice with work and then try and cram everything I need to do into the weekend before I go back BUT you wait… I will be posting all of this week with project developments etc even though I have no Photoshop or Illustrator *sob*’
And here I am. It has been a week since my last post – once again my internet/blog/I don’t know why it happens but I wish it would stop it messed up. Have I been doing work? Hmnn yeah
Have I been wasting a lot of time refreshing pages on my blog in hope that it would magically fix itself? Hmnn yeah. You can’t blame a girl for trying!
I have been bored!
So, you missed out on my Helvetica T-shirt and a photoshoot… which I will blog about next!
But, in short, and I think I speak for a lot of young people across the country when I say… I hate Half Term.
