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Christy Lebor
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Here’s Why One Man’s Trash Is Another Man’s Wine Rack.

When is a package not a package, but a product? Answer: When it doubles as a wine rack. The goal of any package designer is to get a package design displayed at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Ha, ha! Just kidding. (Not really) The goal of any good package designer is to create a package…

Design

Why Your Packaging Shouldn’t Be Lost in Translation.

Remember the movie “Lost in Translation,” where Bill Murray wandered around Tokyo for what felt like roughly five years? The trailers for that film promised a kind of May-December romantic comedy, and what moviegoers actually got was introspection nearly to the point of colonoscopy. You don’t want your package design to make the same mistake….

Design, More

How To Future Proof Your Website.

It is practically impossible to predict the future. The only things of which we can be certain are that nothing will be anywhere near as cool as we expect it to be (no colonies on Mars? WTF?) and your website will look as dated in six months as a pair of rabbit ears sitting on…

Design

Budweiser Really Is King (Miller Fans Can Now Go Home)

We realize that we’re probably supposed to be excited to the point of spontaneous human combustion by the new bowtie-shaped Budweiser can. It’s a marketing coup and innovative packaging design; it’s been engineered to death, unlike any beer can that has ever existed. It also holds one less ounce of beer than the traditional can….

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