Andrew Lyons: Strong Packaging Illustrations

Andrew Lyons cre­ated these gor­geous illus­tra­tions for the pack­ag­ing for Strong, a new line of nutri­ent sup­ple­ments. The tex­tures and sub­tle color gra­da­tions in each piece are par­tic­u­larly beautiful.

Andrew was com­mis­sioned by Pearlfisher, who devel­oped the brand, to illus­trate a dif­fer­ent bird for each prod­uct, and each bird was cho­sen to specif­i­cally rep­re­sent the prod­uct attrib­utes. For exam­ple, an owl was illus­trated to rep­re­sent brain food, and a Puffin for Omega 3 oil. Get a closer look at the details right here.
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May 23, 2013 – 8:00 am | By Courtney | Posted in Illustration | Comments (1)

The “Design Is” Newsprint

Chicago-based designer Buddy Boor recently sent over this excel­lent project with a great look and a great mes­sage, the “Design Is” newsprint, an edu­ca­tional news­pa­per for Chicago high school students:

Through the AIGA Chicago Mentor Program, a group of Chicago based design­ers and researchers col­lab­o­rated to design a newsprint to inspire and edu­cate Chicago high schools stu­dents about the power, poten­tial and pos­si­bil­i­ties of design. We designed a newsprint piece where we illus­trated and visu­al­ized 11 words that we felt best com­mu­ni­cated and exem­pli­fied the mean­ing of design. The “Design Is” newsprint was dis­trib­uted at the 2013 Chicago Design Youth Forum hosted by Project Osmosis.

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Design Credits:
Monina Velarde / @moninavelarde
Katy Dondzilla / @katydondz
Buddy Boor
Darren Gennetten
Kelby Hawn / @kelbyhawn
Shannon Delaney
Kaity Li
Diba Salimi
Amanda Amyx / @aymixer

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May 22, 2013 – 11:00 am | By Courtney | Posted in Design | Comments (0)

Vault49: (Sub)Prime Cuts Hand-Painted Saws

I’m lov­ing these gor­geously hand-painted saws that were cre­ated by Vault49, a NYC-based “artis­tic col­lab­o­ra­tion, a play­ground, and a cre­ative incu­ba­tor for inno­v­a­tive design projects.” The saws are part of an artis­tic project called (Sub)prime Cuts:

Vault49 is doing our bit for the Big Bailout. Budgets are being butchered all around the world, and even worse it’s been done in such bad taste. These finely crafted finan­cial tools should trim the fat nicely. Sink your teeth into these viciously hand-crafted beauties.

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May 22, 2013 – 10:00 am | By Courtney | Posted in Art | Tagged | Comments (1)