25.1.12
Red Stripe - Make a speaker with Yuri Suzuki
These cool videos are part of the new 'Make with a Red Stripe' project.
11.12.11
Beautiful Beer Stamps
These amazing beer revenue stamps were used by breweries in the US to collect taxes and fees. Breweries purchased the stamps from the government and attached them to taxed items.
The stamps were issued to brewers without gum or perforations. The brewers cut the stamps apart, cancelled them, and pasted them over the bung of the beer barrel. Tapping the barrel destroyed the stamp.
Some examples were cut to circular rather than square shape. To facilitate the stamp’s destruction when the keg was tapped, the stamps had a pattern of thirty-one small holes punched in them before issue.
The detail of each stamp is the work of a true craftsman and even more impressive when you discover that each stamp is completely unique and apart from from a few small details none of the design elements were repeated. Impressive stuff indeed.
Discover more about these amazing pieces of design and the history of beer stamps at, Smithsonian National Postal Museum and the source of this post www.annyas.com
A Harvey Nichols Christmas 2011 - Ever faced the Walk of Shame?
Interesting approach to Christmas from Harvey Nic's. What would the guys version be?
4.12.11
Calendar Of Silly Holidays - Dirty Bandits
It's the fifth year in a row that Annica has produced her quirky calendar featuring the most absurd non-denominational holidays she can possibly find and we are just sorry we didn't find her sooner. Annica uses these strange sometimes daft holidays as inspiration and then hand draws type and illustrations for each month. This year includes such new favorites as No Pants Day and Take Your Houseplants for a Walk Day. We hope you'll all be taking part in those! Past calendars have featured some crackers too including our personal favourite, Stupid Question Day.
You can buy The Calendar of Silly Holidays and other great work via Annica's etsy shop, what are you waiting for, this is the perfect gift.
Annica is crazy about type and this shines through in her other work, check out her brilliant Pick Up Lines series of screen prints and her hand painted signage. Beautiful work I'm sure you'll all agree. For more beautiful typography visit www.dirtybandits.com
Wunderful Stuff From Muller
Live action, check. 2D characters, check. 3D animation, check. A large dose of nostalgia, check. A totally new direction for a popular brand, check.
By now you have probably seen the new Muller Yogurt integrated campaign 'Wunderful Stuff' which launched during October this year. The campaign has seen a big departure from the Nina Simone soundtracked adverts to something altogether more playful and fun.
The new campaign hinges on the concept of making the mundane wonderful through the addition of a magical ingredient. Stir into the mix Yogi Bear, Muttley, most of the Mister Men cast and Kitt from Knight Rider and you have a team of TV characters ready to shatter the mundane and create their own brand of wonderful chaos. How could anyone consider eating a plain yogurt after this?
Wunderful stuff is a visual treat and a dose of nostalgia for those who grew up with these characters on their TV screens. The production is certainly impressive with 2D characters including Yogi Bear hand animated in the traditional style. The 3D work is also stunning and when this is all combined with live action we see a new direction for Muller that is certain to stick in the memory.
As Muller say on their website, "There’s big stuff, small stuff, nice stuff and nasty stuff. But we think something’s missing. We think the world needs more Wünderful Stuff".
This is Wunderful stuff alright and we will be watching the development of Muller's new direction with interest. What's next for the campaign and which characters will feature next, watch this space?
In the meantime you can enjoy seeing how Wunderful Stuff was created and other campaign goodies by watching the videos below. Also check out the Muller Facebook page for more news.
Sponsored Post
By now you have probably seen the new Muller Yogurt integrated campaign 'Wunderful Stuff' which launched during October this year. The campaign has seen a big departure from the Nina Simone soundtracked adverts to something altogether more playful and fun.
The new campaign hinges on the concept of making the mundane wonderful through the addition of a magical ingredient. Stir into the mix Yogi Bear, Muttley, most of the Mister Men cast and Kitt from Knight Rider and you have a team of TV characters ready to shatter the mundane and create their own brand of wonderful chaos. How could anyone consider eating a plain yogurt after this?
Wunderful stuff is a visual treat and a dose of nostalgia for those who grew up with these characters on their TV screens. The production is certainly impressive with 2D characters including Yogi Bear hand animated in the traditional style. The 3D work is also stunning and when this is all combined with live action we see a new direction for Muller that is certain to stick in the memory.
As Muller say on their website, "There’s big stuff, small stuff, nice stuff and nasty stuff. But we think something’s missing. We think the world needs more Wünderful Stuff".
This is Wunderful stuff alright and we will be watching the development of Muller's new direction with interest. What's next for the campaign and which characters will feature next, watch this space?
In the meantime you can enjoy seeing how Wunderful Stuff was created and other campaign goodies by watching the videos below. Also check out the Muller Facebook page for more news.
Sponsored Post
28.11.11
Christopher Boffoli
As you may have noticed there are two things we love at The Creative Pie, design and food. When they combine we are at our happiest, so Christopher Boffoli fun photographs are perfect inspiration for us.
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