Summer Package Designs

Summer designs aim to boost soda, beer and tissue sales 
By Bruce Horovitz, USA TODAY

These Kleenex boxes are designed to look like waffle ice-cream cones. Kleenex.

Folks who sip a Coke, munch a Chips Ahoy or sneeze into a Kleenex this summer can't avoid noticing summer-theme package designs.

It's about sales. Marketers know shoppers can be swayed to buy a product not just because of what's inside the box or bottle, but what's on the outside. That's why package design has become a $1 trillion industry. Even a fraction of a percentage of increased sales can separate a successful selling season from a lousy one. So consumer product giants are adding a splash of summer to packaging.

"People look at brands and see a sea of sameness," says JoAnn Hines, a package design consultant. "But a unique shape, design or color that says summer can take them out of the me-too category."

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Feel Good Bear

Feel Good Bear, wdsiemerii

I loved the Care Bears when I was little. I really did, but this piece isn't about my sensitive cartoon watching tastes.

The Road Runner promotes Time Warner Cable High-Speed Internet. The Pink Panther sells attic insulation. So on, so on...

Now comes Feel Good Bear promoting clinics for medicinal marijuana. Care Bear Stare...

Blogger Outage

After blogger going out this should be google's splash. wdsiemerii

Google's Blogger outage makes the case against a cloud-only strategy

The same week that Google made its strongest pitch ever for putting your entire business online, one of its flagship services has failed spectacularly.

Earlier this week, Google rolled out a maintenance release for its Blogger service. Something went terribly wrong, and its Blogger customers have been locked out of their accounts for more than a day. Google’s engineers have been frantically working to restore service ever since, although they haven’t shared any details about the problem.

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NOTE: I have lost all the content I posted yesterday. My family relies on the money this site generates... mwahahahaha

Blogger begins restoring posts as outage continues By Hayley Tsukayama

Sunset Keychain Souvenir

Souvenir Designs We've Seen (a lot) Series
Sunset Keychain Souvenir

You know this image/keychain.

Silhouette of the palm trees on the beach with a warm or cool sun/sunset (yellow/orange or purple/blue). Just put your destination on it and call it your own.

I made it awesome.

Happy 5th of May (Cincy de Mayo)

Design tastes so good.