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September 7, 2011

Winnowing Down the Winston Logo

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WinstonCropped Not sure what year these cigarette packs are from. The truncated typography struck me as a similar package design idea to the recent Turner Duckworth soda can with cropped Diet Coke logo that we were discussing a couple of weeks ago.

Probably not accidental that the portion of the Winston logo that shows here, also happens to spell the word “win.” All of these cigarette packs seem to also come in an italicized version. I have no idea what, if anything, the italic version of this logo might indicate about the product. Other than suggesting Winston’s “winning” forward momentum.

Photos above are from Cigarettepedia. Photo on right is from Roswell62’s Flickr Photostream.

(Some earlier Winston typography, after the fold…)

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September 6, 2011

Banks Beer Cigarette Pack Radio

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One of these Things is Not Like the Others

This collection of cigarette pack radios includes a changling. Although the all of the radios above appears to be flip-top crush-proof cigarette boxes, “Banks” is actually a beer brand. (via: AntiqueRadios.com forums)

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(Banks Beer bottles, etc., after the fold..)

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September 2, 2011

Winston Cigarette Pack Radio

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In 2009 we did a round up of package shaped transistor radios, which incuded a Marlboro Cigarettes radio. Here now is another vintage, cigaratte-pack-shaped, transistor radio. This time the brand is Winton. (via: Hakes.)

Cigarette radios, generally came packaged in a slightly larger “crush proof box” … a fake pack of cigarettes containing a fake pack of cigarettes.

Randy Ludacer
Beach Packaging Design

September 1, 2011

2 Lemon Spray Cans

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Two lemon-scented air freshener spray cans:

StrawberrySpray 1. Conceptual package design for “True” air fresheners (by Berik Yergaliyev at Good!) relies on a soft rubber spray can cap enabling the user to spray the product as if by squeezing the fruit. (See: Packaging & Plastic Fruit)

Lemon is just one of three proposed scents. (Somehow the ice cream cone seems like the outlier in this envisioned product line… See: One of These Things Is Not Like the Others.)

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2. Kuumba’s “Clot” brand lemon tea air freshener spray comes in a spray-paint-style can whose graphics reference Krylon spray paint’s overlapping colored circles/balls. (Although real lemons mainly come in yellow.) Here, the colored circle/balls are given fruit skin texture highlights and lemon leaves.

The “Clot” brand, I suppose, alludes to clogging of spray paint nozzles, but it also reminds me of “lemon curd” for some reason.

(via: Ape to Man)

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Randy Ludacer
Beach Packaging Design

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