Archive for the ‘Design’ Category

I have been giving some thought to the Ruder Finn UK presence, my ideas are at an early stage and thought I would ask you, the blog reader what you would like to see changed on ruderfinn.co.uk. What are the sites that you currently like out there? Keep it clean and constructive. Feel free to comment below or drop me an email.

I came across this project at MIT Media Lab by Aaron Zinman. I really like the way it represents what a search term is about rating it against a pre-defined taxonomy of categories. The process of scanning the data was transparent and facinating to watch.

I took a screen shot whilst the process was running.

Here is the finished article. This is reposted from my personal blog renaissance chambara.

I suffer from back pain periodically (hey I’m getting old, these things happen), and I use this medicine from Hong Kong to massage into the painful spot. Wong To Yick Wood Lock is the bomb, kind of like a nuclear deep heat which hits the spot and straight burns out the pain.

The reason why I am writing about it here is the contradiction in the packaging design. Which on one level seems old-school and conservative. However given that the world’s best printing industry is across the border in Shenzhen, it would be ridiculously easy for the unscrupulous to come up with an identical facsimile.

So they trick the cardboard box out with a holographic film (thats the shimmer you can see in the pictures.) A complete contradiction in design wrapped up in this one set of packaging.

This is cross-posted from my personal blog renaissance chambara.