MotoMaster Snowmobile Oil Can
Design:
Client: Canadian Tire Corp.
Date: 1985
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Packaging
Iceberg Vodka (packaging and beverage)
Design:
Client: Newfoundland and Labrador Liquor Corporation
Date: 1998
Not big on the packaging of this one, the overall impact is underwhelming and lacks the sophistication that the top alcohol makers are using. This market is full of wonderful packaging design, and hopefully the Iceberg brand will choose to do a re-brand soon. The bottle and label design aside, the contents (some would say the most important part) won the 2006-2007 Golden Icon Award for Best Vodka and in 1998, and the Beverage Tasting Institute gave them a score of 94 out of 100, ranking it second behind the acclaimed Grey Goose in a blind taste test.
-Todd Falkowsky
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“It’s Always Better With Butter” Crate
Design:
Client:
Date: Early 1920’s
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St Lawrence Grease Packaging
Design:
Client: St Lawrence Oil Co. Canada
Date: 1950
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Happy Planet Packaging
Design: Kaldor Design Group
Client: Happy Planet
Date:
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Holiday Gift – Wine Bags
Design: Paprika, Montreal, QC
Production: Transcontinental Litho Acme
Date: 2009
We’ve featured Paprika’s highly inventive holiday gifts before. Each year, the Montreal creative agency teams up with printers Transcontinental Litho Acme, to create something special for their clients, suppliers and other lucky folks (including us!).
This year’s design was a set of wine gift bags, which seems very appropriate for the gift-giving season. Each of the bags is completely unique, but creative treatment of the handles seems to be a unifying theme. Different handle configurations, lengths and colours are combined with hand drawn illustrations to produce playful compositions and visual puns (I’ve posted only a few examples here). The whole series is loaded with little details that remind us how much thought and fun went into its creation – some bags feature custom punching and hidden graphics, while the box itself has four different die-cut windows and is decorated on the interior with concept sketches of all the designs (including many that either weren’t produced or just weren’t in our set) – truly a pleasure to unwrap.
How can we get ourselves on the list for next year?
-Michael Erdmann
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Fresh Salmon Cans
Design:
Client: Loggie and Anderson, Miramichi NB
Date: Early 1900’s
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Stelco Electrod Box
Design:
Client:
Date: 1941
“This box carried welding rods for Stelco ‘The Steel Company of Canada’ in 1941. Fully loaded the box weighed 50 lbs. Made and travelled in Canada ‘From Ore to Finished Article’ as the box states.” (Hindsvik Vintage)
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Themes From Great Motion Pictures
Design: Ross Mendes
Client: Solitaire Records, Toronto, ON
Date: 1950’s
Photo: Allan Collier Collection
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