Another impressive packaging news here. Ever thought of a green pack as your food packaging? Something like this:
On these pics you can see a banana leaf used as a take-away pack. The leaf is, on one hand, flexible and can take shapes, roll, bend and stuff. On the other hand, the leaves last long [...]
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No Comments » I have recently come across a very nice idea of making such a dull and unimportant thing as disposable cups much more fun. At that moment I appreciated the idea but left it out of the blog. Something has made me come back to it, though, so here the idea is: A cup acquires a [...]
If I ask you to list the Russian words that you know, where do you start? Babushka, matreshka, balalayka, ikra… That seems it. McDonalds have played this well in Canada during the Olympics. For the Russian delegation that had settled near the restaurant, they’ve prepared something that one would call a McMatreshka.
The idea is that [...]
Zalim Posted in Advertising, Culture, Design, Marketing Tags: Advertising, coupon, Design, Marketing, matreshka, mcdonalds, olympic games, packaging, russia 2 Comments » I posted a couple of news whith interesting design for bottled water, one of which was missing some volume to share with dry lands, while another one’s (Water For Water) profit was aimed at implementing various water projects in developing countries.
Now, there’s another interesting design from Karim Rashid.
PSFK reports about Water Bobble:
Water Bobble, an inexpensive [...]
Zalim Posted in Design, Innovations Tags: bottle, bottled water, Design, Innovations, packaging, water No Comments » I already talked about how I love the efforts of Coca-Cola marketing people.
Cool device from Japan. Coke vending machine is actually a robot, says Stan Lee at Brand DNA.
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Zalim Posted in Design, Innovations, Marketing Tags: coca-cola, coke, Design, Marketing, vending No Comments » The story comes from Gizmodo.
BestBuy have installed a billboard on the Times Square advertising the E-cycling program. The program says that you can bring the hardware that you were going to throw away and have it recycled by paying $10. But you are not losing that money – it is transferred to you BestBuy gift [...]
Zalim Posted in Advertising, Design, Marketing Tags: Advertising, BestBuy, billboard, Design, recycling No Comments » Brand DNA posted a piece on this creative device. Very smart idea: A USB drive that scents the air with a Jean Paul Gaultier fragrance as you work. The device is a free gift that comes together with purchased item. Nice move for sellers of perfumes, coffee, chocolate and the like.
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Zalim Posted in Design, Innovations Tags: chocolate. design, Coffee, Innovations, perfume, usb No Comments » The long story of hopes and speculations was ended yesterday, with announcement of Apples new device – the iPad, which I would call a hybrid of iPhone and a notebook. Much was talked over this outing, much was discussed about what it would be like and what its name would be, and which products it [...]
Zalim Posted in Design, Innovations, Telecom Tags: apple, Innovations, ipad, steve jobs No Comments » Just recently I entered a post about a bottled water design project in Australia that was aimed at aiding underdeveloped areas. And here is another very similar one, from designer Je Sumg Park:
Approximately 50ml out of every 500ml bottle. The rest is collected and sent to countries that have the little-helped but terrible problem of [...]
Here below is a very cute idea from the designer Soon Mo Kang. The so called Hanger Tea is shaped as a t-shirt on a hanger which is hooked on the cup rim.
There are questions as to the feasibility of the project: is it possible to ship the bags undamaged? is there a special equiopment [...]
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