On Saturday, Adelaide Fringe announced the competition to the Fringe Festival open. During the years of the Fringe there have been some great designs and anyone can enter!
This year’s entries are allowed (or encouraged) to use a range of mediums such as animation, sculpture, photography etc.
For more details on the Fringe go here: Fringe Poster Competition
Despite the saying “Don’t judge a book by it’s cover”, people do judge products by the packaging. I was quite impressed when I saw this blog post on abduzeedo. Although most of the work are student designs, it shows how much consideration and care is taken when designing the final product. No matter what the end product is the utmost care should be taken when dealing with a client. It’s definitely worth having a look at the site.
Here’s a link to the site:
Just some postcards i found around Adelaide.
Yesterday I had to see a family member off overseas. Which gave me the opportunity to have a look at the vendors in the airport. I found some lovely postcards from Cocolat. They were quite simple and conveyed to the viewer what they did and how tempting they are. I believe sometimes the more simple a advertising product is the more effective it could be. This is something I will have to consider with my promotional BMW project and portfolio website.
Here are a few of the cards I collected yesterday:
For a link to the Cocolate site:
A short time ago I went to the belgium beer cafe in town, found it a really delightful to have beer and food. However this a design blog and not a food blog. I found it a real novelty to be given mats that went with the beer that I had to collect some. Although only one managed to survive the trip in my bag.
I also managed to gain a few postcards which of course are all beer or belgium related.
Well the show came and went for another year. Instead of just going on rides and vomiting up my lunch I decided to collect a few business cards and flyers while I was there.
Ambersun Alpacas – This one is quite simple but explains who they are and what they do. I haven’t had a look at the website site yet but I imagine it would have the same consistency as the business card.
Buzz Honey - I thought this one was quite clever. They’ve used both sides of the card explaining who are the main people to contact. The trail is quite clever because it does make you think of a bee flying. They obviously have stayed away from the stereotype of bees and flowers. The card is quite simple and the colours really stand out.
Buzz Honey – Well thought out card.
Volksfactory – probably a mish mash of everything in this card. i see about 3 different typefaces which makes it a bit hard to read. Really not much thought put into it. However if it gets their name out in Adelaide and makes them money then it has achieved it’s job.
Murray Valley Cheese Company – They deal with cows and all sorts of diary porducts. I felt this was thought out as well but not to the same degree as Buzz Honey’s business card. However it does tell you what they do and where to contact them.
Miss cup cakes – This card was a bit unusual for me, which is probably why I picked it up. I didn’t really understand why they had a lady eating a cupcake as their business card. However it does tell me they make something yummy. My main problem with the card and company is the fact it doesn’t feel feminine to me. Although different people have different ideas on what is feminine and maybe that wasn’t the message they were trying to get across.
The cupcakes were delicious if you were wondering 
Growth SA Food awards – I thought this was just lovely so I decided to include it. The front cover of the flyer does show how SA business can grow. It’s suttle and nice.
So I guess your wondering why I’m putting up so many cards. I’m trying to see how people use their cards to promote themselves and their business. I want to see how they make it shown in what they do and what details do they put on their card.
This is all to get a clearer picture of how I should design my own business card.
Hmmmm I wonder if this was a real advertisment?
I caught this post on Design Zen and I have a feeling we’ll be seeing copy cat cards for years to come but it’s an original idea and I’m jealous I didn’t think of it first. Though I have a few ideas in the works, so I’m sure I’ll come up with something better!
He has a flickr set shown here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/etaymor/sets/72157606459028460/
For a larger view of the image please click on it.
My partner is collecting old VW items for his collection. I found the front cover of this owner’s manual to be very appealing and thought it was worth scanning in. It’s quite different from an owner’s manual found now.
