Custom Liquor Bottle Labels by Barbour Design
In an effort to showcase potential ESPN partnerships, the Barbour team recently designed these custom labels as a gift to marketing executives. They mimic the actual packaging, but with ESPN branding. A really fun project that was well received.
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Breathtaking Blooms
The creative genius of the Dutch is no more apparent than the annual Bloemencorso, a flower parade in the small city of Zundert, the birthplace of Vincent van Gogh that’s just northeast of Belgium. The fact that each float is made of natural flowers only adds to the allure of these mobile sculptures… many of…
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Unwrap Your Voice
Paris-based illustrator/design Julien Canavezes worked with German ad agency Jung von Matt on this fantastic campaign for Ricola. This special release of the popular Swiss brand of cough drops, The Ricola Music Edition, turns the drops into the heads of suffering singers. Each throat appears to be constricted, but when you unwrap the cough drop,…
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ESPN 2013 Planning Guide by Barbour Design
Barbour Design recently designed a media kit for ESPN, their annual Planning Guide. This year, the design was driven by some great stadium photography, paired with dark hues and contrasting vibrant accents. All materials were printed on a silk stock with dull varnish, plus a spot gloss UV for some punch.
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Branding the Presidents of the United States
Detroit-based, College for Creative Studies senior Meg Jannott began a creative journey about 8 months ago to brand the U.S. presidents. With election season coming to a close, it’s more clear than ever that modern elections are about branding… an ad blitz if you will, just like you’d see for any given product or Hollywood…
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Crayon Commission
Nashville-based sculpture Herb Williams never put down his crayons. His work in this unique medium (crayon sculptures) is awe-inspiring (previous post here). This commissioned piece, composed of about 25,000 crayons, took about two months to complete. In Williams’ own words, “The real fun of the portrait is in adding colors that aren’t really there to…
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Striking Superman Sculpture
It’s a painting, it’s a sculpture, it’s Superman! Metropolis can use Superman right about now, what with all that has been going on. Little is known about this artwork (other than the artist going by the moniker “Samuel”), but it’s been floating around the web for a little while now, and we just love it.…
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Marvelous Monster Portraits
We love the work of UK designer/illustrator Richard Davies (see some outstanding portraits here). In honor of Halloween, check out Davie’s awesome interpretations of some horror film icons. The details and textures in his work are incomparable. Via turksworks.co.uk
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Eye Like It
Irish artist Eoin O’Connor (best known as simply Eoin) has a few passions that inspire his art. Surf culture references dominate his large scale work, but he has recently also been experimenting with these visually stunning eyes. Eoin describes his ongoing quest to establish his own unique style: “I mainly paint ocean inspired scenes in…
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