Friday, October 5, 2012

It is always nice to give a thank you card for anything. From doing business to a compliment. I wanted to design a universal thank you card for any occasion. I just used some vertical striping with the drawing tool, and rearranged layers to create the in between effect.

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

These are both part of Morgan Burgess business card. The only two things she wanted for her business card was it had to be raspberry and have a 1920's feel to it. I struggled on making it unique and elegant with out it being too cliche. I ended up making her 4 different business cards. The net layout actually folds into a pocket chief for suits, where she can keep her business cards whenever she goes to any business function or when she just wants to look stylin'.

Monday, October 1, 2012

A Company Easy on the Eyes

 I was surprised to see the success of the most unlikely company from the website http://www.fastcompany.com/1739774/how-carrots-became-new-junk-food about carrots. The Carrot company, Crispin, has done an amazing job redirecting the outlook of carrots as a food.
It started with the redesign of how carrots looked. Thanks to farmer, Mike Yurosek, for taking the rough, raw skin and stem of the carrot, the baby carrot was born. The old name bunny balls died quickly. The simple new cut increased sales of carrots until a sharp fall in the 2000's. Then marketing wiz, Jeff Dunn from Coca-Cola, turned baby carrots in a new direction.
    His goal was not to emphasise that baby carrots were a healthy snack. We already know that. He wanted to turn baby carrots into the new junk food. He already knew how successful junk food sales are, so why not turn carrots into the next coach snack. In his time there, he change the ads to a more fun comical feel to them, change the packaging into more like a Doritos bag, and sealed them so they can be eaten on the go. Crispin CEO Andrew Keller commented about the redirecting, "It's about getting baby carrots into a different category." Now Crispin controls more than 80% of the carrot industry in North and South America, and the Bolthouse farm that produces the carrots makes between $600 to $800 million a year. Now that is really easy on the eyes.