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Pepsi can, 2013

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With “A Priceless Partnership” in white lettering around the neck, this dual-branded bottle of cola was given out in 2003 at the European Tennis MasterCard Open in Frankfurt and at the CeBit computer electronics show in Hannover.

The bottles from the European Tennis Open were contained in a tube and included a numbered “zertifikat” signed by Arne Pache, Senior Business Leader at MasterCard Worldwide.

 More: MasterCard Cola | Box Vox

Making the removal of product brand names into a unique selling proposition, UK department store, Selfridges positions itself as a refuge from information overload. Their “NoNoise” promotion includes a “Quite Shop” that sells “de-branded” products. [Selfridges “No Noise”]

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As admirable is this may be, participating product manufacturers are not really risking so much in the way of product recognition, since their container shapes, their label colors and the remaining graphics are all brand trademarks in their own right.

More: De-Branding in Name Only | Box Vox

(via From AT-ATs to iPhones: Early Sketches of 10 Iconic Objects | Wired Design | Wired.com)

The idea of representing a lifetime with a row of 4 or 5 bottles. Usually starting out with a baby bottle & a Coke, and ending up with an intravenous feeding bottle. (With an alcoholic beverage bottle in between.)

(via Life-as-Bottles Meme | Box Vox)

I’m obviously a big fan of Box Vox. But sadly I did not subscribe to the associated newsletter. Recently Box Vox lost a lot of material due to a server failure and is looking for help from email subscribers to rebuild what’s gone missing. While it’s most likely that those subscribers would know about this from Box Vox itself, I figure it can’t hurt for me to pass along the word to anyone who somehow is learning about this situation through these indirect means, this:

My last recourse is to seek out an email-saving subscriber. The photos, of course, will no longer show in those emails, but the writing and the html code would be real a life-saver.

If you have saved any emailed posts from box vox (sent to you between February 23, 2012 and August 3, 2012) please email them back to me.

We’ve seen other hand-shaped figural bottles before, but the Fakeer Energy Drink bottle was new to me. (via: Packaging of the World)

Interesting intellectual property issues examined here: No Trademark for “Uncompromising” Bottle | Box Vox

(via Dirt and Packaging | Box Vox)

Looking for a way of following up on yesterdays post (about Barry Rosenthal’s photographs of equidistant discarded bottles and why I felt there was something inherently “modern” about those patterns) I found these things:

1. Bocianelli drawing template #2232 (via Amazon)

Not intended as an aesthetically-pleasing pattern in its own right, but to avoid creating weak links between bottle shapes, the template was designed with consistent spaces in between. (Modernist idea: form follows function)

See full post (and earlier post) for more cool visuals and thoughtful assessment thereof: More Bottle Modernism | Box Vox

For a delightfully deep dive into “Budwieser Arts,” start here, and keep reading the “next post” till you are sure you’ve seen it all.

The above is from the third or so post in the series: Another Budweiser Triptych | Box Vox

Peter Cuba’s 2010 photographs of Budweiser labels applied to an assortment of products other than beer.

Regarding his unauthorized brand extensions, the Chicago-based illustrator/designer says simply:

“My new art is putting Budweiser labels onto other things. Goodbye painting, hello drinking.”

 (via Peter Cuba’s New Art | Box Vox)

Explanatory video here: Redacted Budweiser Label | Box Vox

unconsumption:

Washington-based artist Diane Kurzyna, a.k.a. Ruby Re-Usable, turns plastic packaging waste into life-sized sculptures. Pictured: Bag Lady and Wonder Dog Spot 2, made from Wonder Bread bags. 

(photos via Ruby Re-Usable’s Flickr stream here and here)

(via Russell Hill | i like this art)