The NNew Can designed by Jiwoon Park and Kwenyoung Choi. The consumer is motivated to crush the can as it looks fun to do, and it definitely helps with saving space in the recycling bin!

I love these! So often dairy producers will shy away from showing where their product comes from (ie cows), but this Romanian company goes right ahead and warps their milk in a cow-hide! Love the honesty and freshness in this packaging.

Here are a beautifully Designed set of herbal water labels by McLean design in the USA. I love their simplicity with strong variant colour-coding, while the wodden background and the photography give it a very natural feel. It’s nice to see some very easy to read type running vertically on these labels as this is something clients will often shy away from.

This is one of ours We’ve been rebranding the whole Hubbards range for the last year and are very proud to be able to show what we have come up with.

This is Hubbard’s core range of Mueslis. many thanks to Daron Parton and Watermark for the beautiful illustration.

A beautiful example of proprietary bottle design. This premium sake appears in packaging modeled on bamboo.

Design by: ChappsMalina

Here is a very cute take on honey with the ‘g’ of ‘honig’ transformed into a lovely little honeybee icon. Black and gold are rich, premium colour choices that complement the colour of the product beautifully.

Designer: unknown

Here is Cashew our office lizard checking out our plastic recyling box

A new, free, downloadable font designed to reduce ink-usage in offices. The Ecofont is based on the Vera Sans, an Open Source letter, and is available for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux. It reduces ink requirements by strategically placed holes which make it best used at around 10pt for standard office requirements such as Word Processing, email etc. and works best in OpenOffice, AppleWorks and MS Office 2007

“After Dutch holey cheese, there now is a Dutch font with holes as well.”

Appealing ideas are often simple: how much of a letter can be removed while maintaining readability? After extensive testing with all kinds of shapes, the best results were achieved using small circles. After lots of late hours (and coffee) this resulted in a font that uses up to 20% less ink.”

http://www.ecofont.eu/look_at_ecofont_en.html

This business card is a lovely example of blind embossing – the process by which the embossing itself create the word of shape with no ink usage. There is a beautiful and elegant simplicity to this card with the embossing creating the logo on the front face of the card but still working as a graphic element on the reverse (something you always have to take into account when embossing).

Designer: unknown

Don’t you just love an innovative dieline? This apple-shaped box is a masterpiece of folding and just begs the viewer to pick the apple up, hold it and examine it. I’d very much like to see what the dieline looks like when flat, but in true eco-concious fashion it seems to require no gluing as the box is held in shape by the stalk.

I can’t remember where I found this image or who created the design and dieline – so if anyone knows please post credits!