Design Archives Part 1

One of my main goals when first creating this blog was to use it as a way to keep current with (and creating) good graphic design. So far, I haven't really featured much of it, so I've decided that once a week I will do an entry called Design Archives. Each of these entries will include pictures I pull from my folder of "inspiration", which simply is a folder on my laptop full of pictures of what I think is good graphic design. I will also include some sort of commentary on why/what makes is good graphic design.

I haven't been very good at sourcing where my images come from (most of these, in fact I think all of them, come from The DieLine) I need to get better at this, it's VERY important to give credit where credit is due.

• Paulette: If I knew where I could buy these delish looking cookies, I'd be all over it. It's so obvious, it's almost clever, that the double T's should become a cookie...that idea is carried through each letter as the stroke all have the characteristics of the cookie. The varying opacity of the background illustrations add subtle interest to what could have easily become over done or...boring
• Crab Meat Packaging: The tag line "Seafood & Eat It" is a GREAT play on the well "see-food diet" It made me smile and laugh and that's good enough for me!
• Crazy Foam: What little kid wouldn't want to take a bath if they got to use Crazy Foam? Each bottle becomes a character and could easily keep a child entertained in the tub. Form and function, I give it an A+!
• Treo: I'm not even sure anymore what this is, but I love, love, love the typography and color scheme. Lately I've really been digging slab serif typefaces, so it didn't surprise me when I pulled this image for my first Design Archive post.
• Chocolate Bar Packaging: I love that this packaging takes a totally different approach than the normal "sensual, expensive, silky" images of chocolate packaging and advertising. I admire how detailed the illustrations of the Cacao Plant, from which chocolate comes from. And again I love the typography. It's simple and the percentage of cacao was a lovely idea.