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Young children famously prefer the packaging over the toys that they contain. Latvia’s Brum Brum wooden bicycle for kids seems...
With the contact details on the average business card running five lines deep these days, there’s something almost soothing about this card designed...
Sometimes you want your ice cream now, and other times you want to take it home to savor or...
Sometimes it seems like the workaday designer doesn’t labor under a glass ceiling so much as a gold foil one. How...
Amidst illustrations, scrap fabrics and inspiration boards at LA’s prestigious Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, two designers discovered...
Get ready to be inspired as special guest PRO Trish Witkowski (Foldfactory.com) shows you five killer marketing pieces that...
If there’s any design assignment more thankless than creating an annual report, we haven’t come across it. Often you are...
We know better, we know better, we know better: If we’re going to browse through wine labels, chances are we’re...
Just as the devil always has the best tunes, the political left often can be relied on to have the best design....
After six seasons of “Portlandia” we feel as if we know what to expect from Portland: enthusiasm for all...
Something magical happens when a design studio crafts something for itself without the usual back-and-forth with (let’s face it)...
Last year, Ennis Perry Creative was charged with creating the packaging for One Seed, an Australian boutique organic perfumery....
Even technology behemoths like Google appreciate that few things beat print design when it comes to getting a hard-to-understand point...
Letterpress, foil stamping – I love special effects. Who doesn’t? Especially when the type is pressed deep into the...
The gift served to showcase Just Design’s unusual take on the ordinary, skill with packaging, and unbounded creativity....
Music and fine wine being two of life’s sensual pleasures, it’s only natural that the two be combined from...
British book imprint Ladybird has announced the addition of nine new titles to its cheeky “Ladybird Books for Grown-ups” series,...
If you’re in need of some inspiration for your next luxury packaging project, you’re going to want to get your...
Here are a few cool ways to get that embossing feel—especially for short-run or variable-data projects—and how they...
At last year’s Adobe MAX conference, the first indication that designer and Field Notes co-founder Aaron Draplin was in...
We have a friend who’s been having a devil of a time lately trying to work out what her new...
Welcome to our first PaperSpecs Unboxing event! When we contacted the producers of that amazing sculptured-emboss horse head business...
This was an amazing collaborative project, and working with the great team of people from various parts of the...
The adult coloring book craze inspired H.O.T. Graphic Services’ 40th anniversary commemorative calendar. It was a way for the...
Considering all the advances in printing and finishing techniques over the years, it’s amazing just how few inspiring notebooks there...
When you would easily buy something strictly for the lovely packaging, you know you’re looking at a fantastic example of packaging...
Despite producing stunning work, digital presses remain, in many people’s minds, little more than their own office laser printer...
Occasionally I like to surrender the PRO Tip stage to fascinating designers to discover what it is that inspires...
Cracker Jack may have recently discontinued its practice of including toy prizes with its packages but the tradition is alive...