I'm a Chicago designer who graduated from Columbia College May 2010. I believe inspiration comes from unexpected places, and therefore it is necessary to look beyond the familiar to bring new ideas to light. This Tumblr allows me to record my discoveries in hopes of providing some nugget of truth or inspiration to the next fellow.
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Great collection of vintage packaging design, very inspiring as the week’s end draws near.
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Great cover of a great song. Dig those shades man.
The Spectacled Eider—An Illustration
(Source: Wikipedia)
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Another shot of the Wandawega Syrup from my earlier post. This one shows more of the total packaging and the label I designed.
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Rip it up.
So we beat on,
boats agaisnt the current,
borne back ceaselessly
into the past.
Levi Stubbs has one the greatest voices of all time.
Plus these dudes can dance.
I recently collaborate with my colleague Tereasa Surrat on a very special holiday gift for friends and clients. The gift is a limited-run maple syrup that looks like it was smuggled from prohibition era America. Inspired heavily by bootleg whiskey labels from the 20s and 30s, I created the Wandawega logo and hang tags for the bottle, which was then wrapped in newspaper from the 20s (found on ebay) tied with butcher string and laid inside a custom built wooden crate. Everything came together beautifully and looking at the resulting bottle you can almost picture them being snuck across state lines in the back of an old Ford Model T truck.
Check out Tereasa’s blog for lots of photos:
Post One - Post Two - Post Three
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