DANG!

Recently I've become obsessed with this Rot Beer. It's just call Dang! and jut he name alone was enough to get me, but I found the graphics to be awesome to. This is a scan of the 6 pack holder, and is pretty complex compared to the bottle itself. The bottle has no texture to it, and is all flat colors (no shadows). It looks like one of the simplest, while still being retro, packages I've ever seen. I thought it was pretty awesome myself, but also wanted to showcase it since it's the best tasting root beer I've ever had!

Interesting Sticker

This is a sticker I have for Oury Grips (for bicycles). It's a somewhat holographic sticker with a photo and text on it. I think it is a very interesting idea, and I would love the change someday to design something like this myself, but I think the execution of this sticker is pretty bad. All you can really see in the sticker is a grip towards the bottom, and the text towards the top. The rest of the stickers is wasted space to me. This sticker is also really small and even the text is nearly impossible to read. I love the idea, but it's not as god as I was hoping. However, I think it is a very unique idea!

Type breaking

I know we had talked about how it is not good to break type onto multple lines, and I think most would agree that it's not good to break the type onto different lines when some lines share multiple words. That's the case here. This is a patch I have for the band So Long Forgotten. These patches were designed to have quite the DIY (do it yourself) feel to them, and be visually entertaining to look at. I think they created something that has a great look to it, but isn't very legible when it comes to the type. I also think though that when it comes to bands legibility isn't the most needed aspect. If someone knows this band they will understand the type of it, and it will make sense. If they don't know the band it probably won't, but that goes back to the Psychedelic days of keeping the "square" people out. Although I don't think the term square is the proper term for this.

Bottles

So recently I started to notice that different drinks will always be packaged differently. Sodas, when packaged in glass are always tall bottles with metal bottle cap. When they're packaged in plastic they're very similar in design, but with a plastic screw on cap. These bottles could pretty much be okay for all other types of drinks, but most won't use them. Take this Odwalla for instance, It's made out of a recycled plastic bottle that is rectangular and somewhat opaque in comparison to soda bottles. Other drinks similar to Odwalla are packaged the same. This package choice might be up to an industrial designed sometimes, but I know that some graphic designers get to make choices like this, especially when the product has a more environmental stance. I just thought it was very interesting how neither of these bottle designs, as far as shape goes, has a benefit over the other, but it's something that drink companies don't vary on at all. I think if a soda company were to create a drink in the Odwalla container they could create something big, but who knows until it happens.

Band logos

After looking at the Psychedelic posters, and how illegible their type was it made me think about modern bands. I know I had mentioned in class that some death metal bands these days are even more outrageous than the bands from the Psychedelic times. This is the best example I can think of. It's for the band Waking the Cadaver, and this is the logo that they use for everything including shirts and posters. Imagine a poster with 10 logos like this on it, and no legible type that says the bands' names on it. I think this is about as far as you can go to make sure that only the "in" people know about something. I posted the logo two times so you can see it with the text in red, and then the logo how it is made to be. I hope you enjoy it, and learn that some people push the limits more than we might ever realize.