designandconsumerstudies

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

i have found some logo designs ideas from a web page
theyre good reference considering we r doing a lot of branding and identity at the moment

Wednesday, July 4, 2007

fetish clothing

Malcolm McLaren was known for being the manager for punk band The Sex Pistols.Vivienne Westwood was a fashion designer. Together they opened a shop, Let It Rock (also known as Sex, Too Fast To Live Too Young To Die, Seditionaries) where Westwood began to sell her outrageous designs. During this period, Westwood, McLaren, and artist Jamie Reid were influenced by the Situationists. She still owns the shop, which is at 430 King's Road, and sells her Anglomania label from there. The shop is now known as World's End.
The punk style began to gain notoriety when the Sex Pistols wore clothes from Westwood and McLaren's shop at their first gig. The "punk style" included BDSM fashion, bondage gear, safety pins (taking inspiration from Richard Hell, a personality in the early New York punk rock scene), razor blades, bicycle or lavatory chains on clothing and spiked dog collars that were used as jewellery, as well as outrageous make-up and hair. Vivienne Westwood marriage to Malcolm McLaren produced a son named Joseph.

Tuesday, July 3, 2007

heres some campaigns for mens colognes i found done by a packaging and product design company called curventa
the address is
http://www.curventadesignworks.com/what4.php
I like the clean simple visual effects of the packagings

Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Look at these....yum!

Ferrero Rocher

One of the more familiar candies that’s marketed for Valentine’s Day would be the Ferrero Rocher. They’re pretty candies all year round but during the season for lovers they’re placed in clear plastic heart-shaped domes of varying sizes.

Ferrero is an Italian company that makes all sorts of hazelnut confections, some under the Ferrero name and others under the Kinder name. Their best known, perhaps, is Nutella, but they also make the Kinder Eggs, Tronky, Pocket Coffee, Kinder Bueno, Kinder Happy Hippos and Tic Tacs. The Ferrero Rocher wasn’t introduced until 1982 and didn’t make it to the US until 1985 but it has quickly filled a niche in the confectionery market as an upscale chocolate available at drug stores and grocers in more than 100 countries.
But what is a Ferrero Rocher? At its center is a whole hazelnut, surrounded by a chocolate hazelnut paste filling which is inside a light chocolate wafer sphere covered in more chocolate and crushed nuts.
These were nice and fresh and had a wonderful sweet chocolatey aroma mixed with the smell of hazelnuts. They’re a bit big, but can fit in your mouth as one bite, though I usually do it in two (to see if I get the whole hazenut in the first or the second). They’re very nutty which helps to keep them from being too sweet. They’re much better, as far as I’m concerned, than Tronky, Happy Hippos or Kinder Bueno. I think it’s that the hazelnuts are so strongly featured. The packaging is also quite smart and classic. If you see them on sale after Valentine’s, this is an excellent product to pick up.

lost blog contributions

Stacy,
For some reason my ten contributions re-cotton ball packaging to this blog are now in cyberspace, along with everybody else's. You can see them flashing past but can't read them. ???
Sandi h

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Sunday, June 24, 2007

package not found

My packaging is for my big sister for her company called Feitico Jewlery & Lingerie made with love in Byron Bay

this is a lingerie company ,some similar sites on i had explored and this one from pacificfair has the sort of target that she does she might sell in even some-time:)

www.callanlifestyle.com.au