One of my favorites.
Bill Waterson is one of my idols. I only ever read his Calvin & Hobbes and Gary Larson’s Far Side growing up. Other types of comics were too nerdy/sci-fi for me, save the occasional sunday paper.
Still trying to clean out my old hotmail account from 1999 :P found this little guy. It’s funniest if you try to read it out loud.
The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.
As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5-year phase-in plan that would become known as “Euro-English”.
In the first year, “s” will replace the soft “c”. Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy.
The hard “c” will be dropped in favour of “k”. This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome “ph” will be replaced with “f”. This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.
In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.
Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent “e” in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.
By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing “th” with “z” and “w” with “v”.
During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary “o” kan be dropd from vords kontaining “ou” and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.
If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl.
I know there are a BAJILLION sites about packaging out there. These are the ones I frequent. I want to start by saying I am only including sites in this list that are curated blogs, not individual studios. I don’t only look at packaging sites, but I don’t want to overwhelm you so I won’t mention any other categories in this post.
The Lovely Package is very well curated, and nicely categorized. The interface is clean, and most of the work is very good. I like that they show the country of origin. It’s my favorite blog, though I wouldn’t really call it a blog. I enjoy going through this one the most out of all the sites I visit.
The Dieline is not as clean of an interface as Lovely Package, but still shows separate categories. It has a nice mix of student work and actual package products.
Oh Beautiful Beer is exclusively beer. Most of it is in production, but a few of them are student projects.
Packaging of the World starts you off in thumbnail view, not reading like an article as easily as Lovely Package, but it sorts very well based on where the product was designed. It’s nicely diverse.
Packaging UQAM is a blog I just discovered recently, but I think the guy does a good job of picking things that nicely represent the best of what package design can be. It’s in French but he does his best to write a translation.
So I didn’t bother to read the site. (It’s in French) This guy posted a few different paper sculptures around bottles, so I don’t know if it’s all the same designer or not. Most of them were on this page if you want to take a look. It’s definitely a nice, dynamic take to label design, however unpractical production may be (but let’s not burst anyone’s creativity bubble today okay?)
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