Design Debate

I realised today that we have been designing calendars at Pickle Design for over 10 years now! Our first in 2008 was a simple introduction to the team in the form of a little book of bookmarks. I illustrated something to do with each member, including the postman, printers and freelancers, as a little something to hand-out for our clients.  For 2009 we went a little bigger and a little bolder. Carl had the idea of showing what inspired us as a design team so we illustrated 12 Things We Like as badges. These were mounted on DL uncoated grey card, each with a month printed on.  The badges were great fun to do as well as a challenge, such a tiny format! They included things like 'plenty of colour', 'conversation', and some favourite films such as 'The Third Man' and 'Amelie'.  2010 marked the first of our poster calendars. Here we used a tree changing through the seasons to represent the year. A muted colour palette and simple vector illustr...

Sunwink's new health beverages are as eye-catching as they are healthy. The unique blue bottles are actually very practical. Like beer the drink needs to be kept from sunlight, and this was a great solution.  The health drinks market is pretty crowded but the calming blue of the packaging together with those abstract illustrations make this bottle very pick-up-able. The sparkling herbal tonic is chockablock full of goodness, fitting in at least 1,000 mg of herbs, around 4 to 8 times more than you get in herbal tea.  The styling is also more concept art than soft drink, and in this current cold season I’d be pleased to give them a go!  Originally found at the Dieline .