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packaging as content
- Added on: Jan 8th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: box vox
- Listed in: Graphic Design
- Tags: Packaging package design packaging design retail package product package packaging designer
Recent Posts
Cigar Band as Ring
An old, black & white TV commercial for Robt. Burns Cigars shows how a cigar band can be worn as a ring. Other cigar companies have also compared their cigar band packaging to rings. White Owl, for example used to use it in their Christmas campai...
Some Selected Works by Gabriel Orozco
OK, I admit it. It isn’t hard to find packaging-related artwork in the oeuvre of just about any contemporary artist you could name. Like shooting fish in a barrel, really. Better known for works like “La DS” —(where he cut a silver Citroën d...
Tin Can Telephones
The tin can telephone or “string phone,” though not the beloved childhood toy it once was, still lives on as symbolic shorthand for “communication” on stock photo sites and in the occasional television ad. This campaign for Progresso ...
FBI Jr. Spy Toy Packaging
In our previous post, we focused on package-shaped cameras, one of which was a toy spy-camera in the shape of a Resse’s Peanut Butter Cap package. Further research turned up this collection of other “FBI Jr.” brand toys on Sam’s Toybox. Turn...
Packaging Cameras
Top row, left: Velveeta box camera from Allee Willis’s Blog; on right: Coke Can cameras from eBay; 2nd row, left: film canister camera via I New Idea; 3rd row, right: Fanta can camera from CircusCat’s photostream; center: King’s Cigarette bo...
The Front Line
From Readers Digest (“in Cooperation with Super Market Institute”) this 1965 training film for grocery store “checkers” uses a cute war metaphor for the grocery business:“Some people call this a war. War or not, one thing is for sure, a dai...
