Advertising Is Good For You

Happiness is yellow

 

 

 

 

 

Cheers

Gorgous liquor bottles.

 

 

 

 

 

And something for the teetotalers.

Via If It's Hip, It's Here

An adorable idea from Coca-Cola

Coca-Cola is making its soda cans shareable.

The regular-sized can twists apart leaving one with a smaller can of Coke and a plastic cup. The idea is that you pour some Coke into the cup for a friend and drink the rest yourself. Or vice versa, if you prefer.

It's kind of adorable. 

The idea came from a collaboration between Ogilvy & Mather's Singapore and France offices.

Click here to watch the Shareable Coke Can video. It's adorable, too, but about twice as long as it needed to be. You be the judge.

TK Food Pineapple Pastry

Packaging created by Victor Branding Design.

Via Lovely Package

Why doesn't every company have a vanity barcode?

The cost of adding an awesome barcode is negligible in relation to the average package design budget. 

And what a great way to update a traditional brand.

Well done, Hillshire Farm.

This was really a thing

Bickmore Morticians Powder. 

You have to admit, this is some cool vintage packaging.

The National Museum of Funeral History is a thing, too.

Meow

It's beer, it's Japanese and it has a cat on it. For more information, you have to click the link. And be fluent in Japanese.

Via Rakuten

On a lighter note, the new ceramic cup I ordered came in the mail today

 

Ain't she a beauty? 

The iconic paper cup on which this ceramic cup is based, called the Anthora, was designed by Leslie Buck in 1963 to appeal to Greek-owned coffee shops in New York City. 

Purchase your ceramic version at We Are Happy To Serve You.

Less Bud for you

If I hadn't read about this at the Wall Street Journal, I would have thought it was a joke.

Budweiser is changing the shape of its cans to this:

Looks like a partially crushed can to me.

Ostensibly, Budweiser is doing this because the new can shape reflects the bow-tie design "that has been part of Budweiser advertising and packaging since the 1950s."

Am I the only one who never noticed the 'bow tie' before now?

Budweiser also claims the new shape makes the can easier to grip.

Hmmm. It solves a problem no one had.  

According to the Wall Street Journal article, Budweiser has made, "'significant capital investments' to upgrade factories to be able to carry out the 16-step production process to make it.

Interesting.

The new can also holds less beer — 11.3 ounces as opposed to 12 full ounces.

Bingo!

 

Have always adored the jars Bonne Maman jams come in

Whoever thought of Bonne Maman's red checked jar lid was a genius.

Wish I knew who did this illustration so I could give him/her credit.

By the way, Bonne Maman makes the best raspberry jam.

Via Laura Manfre

Speaking of honey

I love these honey bear graphics.

Via Paper Crane

Celebrity Saturday: Kim Kardashian introduces Pure Honey fragrance

Kim Kardashian is introducing a new women's fragrance called Pure Honey.

Weird name for a perfume.

I hear Pure Honey and I'm thinking about food. 

I don't want to smell like food. Do you?

Here's Kim Kardashian on the cover of Hia, the leading lifestyle magazine for Arab women.

Click here to see a whole passel of Kardashians.

Via Scented Salamander

Workday Recovery Kit

What would you fill yours with?

Mine would contain my husband, a few beers and cats. And some air holes.

Via This Isn't Happiness