More Tea?

    I really like this can which is for Earl Grey Tea from the Empress hotel. The gold accents on the black with the grey swirls make for an interesting design. The designers chose to use a serif text to compliment the idea of tea being for posh people. The logo sticks out from the rest of the can because of the surrounding black and bordered by the "F' swirl design. the same is true for a little blurb that is on the right picture which is also bordered. Some how they were able to fit information from where the tea came to the the companies name and logo to the website all in a neat little package. The grey upraised part of the can looks like an intricate Celtic art but on closer inspection is actually the Fairmonts "F" layered on top of itself.

That's all for today,

Cheers,
Melanie

Bright colours and multitudes of dots

    Whoops, I forgot it was Tuesday today. So as promised last week I have some cool Graphic Design that I picked up in the Vancouver Art Gallery.
    Today I bring you Ken Lum's a Users guide. The coolest fold out I've seen:

 

 

This is how it looks when one picks it up. The colours burn.

Underneath the pink.

A break from the colours.

This is the inside when opened.

This is the outside when completely opened.

   This one is actually really hard to critique, because of it's uniqueness. But I can definitely say that it attracted my eyes right away with the bright colours. It also makes the person want to keep opening just because the the way it opens and the bold colours it carries though out the brochure. The way they used the gray triangles worked very well as you can see with the back view, it really gives a nice break for your eyes as you look through it. The layout for the body copy is nice and neat and placed where it is able to be read easily and the paragraphs are uniform. I don't know what they were trying to accomplish with the dots but it is interesting although it could be called clutter as well. Over all a very cool piece of graphic design and something I haven't seen before.

Cheers,
Melanie