Posts in the "Food" Category

Recently we’ve been in contact with several breweries in the triangle area in hopes of getting some design work from them. I’ve been doing some research on bottle design, and here are some of my favorites:

Does anyone else have any favorites?

Kristy is amazing! She was so inspired by my rainbow cake post last week that she made one this weekend.

Apparently I’m fat, because I keep posting about food. But this is amazing:

And there are detailed directions on omnomicon so you can make your very own rainbow cake. If someone ever made this for me, I would love them forever. This is so much cooler than funfetti.

Have you guys been to the cupcake shoppe in Raleigh? If you haven’t, you should check it out, it’s super cute and super tasty. It’s at 104 Glenwood Ave., you can check out their website for more info. Support your local bakery!

As we’ve been pulling together portfolio photos for our new site (i swear it’s coming soon) we’ve realized that you can’t just put any two photos side by side. That stuff takes thought, people!

Tara Donne does a good job of pairing her own photographs, and makes me want to add “food photographer” and “photo styling” to the long list of jobs I think I’d like.

It’s good to see the cries of the public answered.  Tropicana announced today that they are scrapping the newly redesigned Tropicana packaging in favor of their old packaging. The recent design was introduced in early January; so it hasn’t even been two months and they are pulling it. It will be costly in the shortrun, but they’ll will back many of their alienated devotees. I for one hated the new packaging. It looked stale, derivative and generic. Now, if only PepsiCo would consider scrapping another recent redesign, I’d be a happy consumer…

A la an earlier conversation about a poster we’re designing for a relay race that involves eating meals while you race (see our previous post about The Doughman), here is designer Olle Hemmendorff’s interpretation of Nike’s Air Max 90.  Thanks, Nicole!

Mmm…hungry?

Every so often a project will land at our doorstep that requires an investment in some difficult, extra-curricular research.  Which sounds serious, right?  But sometimes it just means that we need to experiment with making typography from pizza dough.  It was a doughy battlefield of awesome.

The project in question is a poster we’re creating for The Doughman, a  “team relay quadrathlon” or, more simply, a triathalon that involves eating while you race.  The race sounds really fun and a little hilarious, which is the same way I think we’d all describe working on the project thus far.

We got a little carried away.  But I mean, if you were at work and you got to play with dough at what is normally your conference table, wouldn’t you?  Thought so.

I’m not sure we’ll use any of this for the actual project but it gave all of us a better idea (or an idea to begin with) of what you can and cannot do with pizza dough in design.  Important, right?

Personally, I can’t wait to see what the final poster design looks like.

Every so often a project will land at our doorstep that requires an investment in some difficult, extra-curricular research.  Which sounds serious, right?  But sometimes it just means that we need to experiment with making typography from pizza dough.  It was a doughy battlefield of awesome.

The project in question is a poster we’re creating for The Doughman, a  “team relay quadrathlon” or, more simply, a triathalon that involves eating while you race.  The race sounds really fun and a little hilarious, which is the same way I think we’d all describe working on the project thus far.

We got a little carried away.  But I mean, if you were at work and you got to play with dough at what is normally your conference table, wouldn’t you?  Thought so.

I’m not sure we’ll use any of this for the actual project but it gave all of us a better idea (or an idea to begin with) of what you can and cannot do with pizza dough in design.  Important, right?

Personally, I can’t wait to see what the final poster design looks like.

My new favorite blog of the day, Voltage, reminded me of this amazing dude – Vince Offer. Further confirming my hopes and dreams that marketing has some sort of effect on everyday life – be it sweet or gross. Every time I see this infomercial for Shamwow I end up saying, “Wow I need that.” Even if I really mean “Wow, I want the thrill of making myself laugh via the memory of spikey hair and greasy accent every time I wipe up pasta sauce from the stovetop.” That shit feels good. Seriously, as Voltage wisely says, Offer knows all the tricks and winks at us with love beneath the hot lights. It makes that whole money grubbing, pan handling, soul selling marketing stuff go down a lot easier. P.S. I need a headset. Let’s dub that “success set,” shall we?