Perfect Package // Circle 21 Candles

Ever the sucker for a pretty package, I am smitten with this beautiful Circle 21 candle collection and simple branding.

Circle 21 via Lovely Package, design by Nudge

Design Inspiration

I've kinda gotten away from featuring design, type and packaging lately, haven't I? Well, with a personal branding project underway (!!!!!), I've had my eye on design all over again. Just a few bits that are inspiring me lately.

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Clean and simple with a little vintage flair gets it done every time.

Perfect Package // Maison Dandoy

Tell me you wouldn't feel like celebrating constantly if your branding looked like this?

Maison Dandoy via The Dieline

Mandatory confetti, yo.

Speaking of confetti and branding, one of my favorite virtual-gone-real-life friends, Erika of Small Shop, has a shiny new site today in honor of 10 amazing years in business! Many of you are probably already familiar with Erika; her supreme taste, talent and personable nature are well-recognized in the blog community. She's one of the first people that comes to mind when I think about how this blogging journey has introduced me to such wonderful new people that I never would have had the opportunity to meet had I not hit publish that very first time. I am especially grateful to have had the chance to meet her when we were both in NYC a few months ago. She's truly as delightful in person as she is via the intranets, I assure you. If you haven't already, go check out the new site she's been pining over for months. It's b-e-a-utiful!

Perfect Package // Querida Carmen

It's October, party people! Which means that time of year is upon us . . . Soup, soup, soup!

And probably canned rice if packaged like these beauties.

images via Querida Carmen

perfect package // exercising simplicity

branding & packaging by emeyele

when in doubt, don't be afraid to simplify.

perfect package // this served here

beautiful clean and classic student work by marta gonzalez palacios:

via packaging uqam

i can see it served here:

via spitzmiller and norris architects

type tuesday // in vino veritas

sometimes, all i want to do is go back to being a student so i can blue sky and create awesome packaging like this all day.

student olga gaze did a phenomenal job on this wine offering.

would you not pick that up on the double??

and by that i mean, doesn't everyone buy at least two bottles at a time? :)

images via olga gaze, spotted via the dieline

perfect package || always

so i've been soaking up crazy inspiration at alt summit these last few days, which i was both excited and nervous about.

excited because i knew i was about to learn more than my brain can possibly handle about branding, blogging and connecting.

and i get to meet a number of blogger peeps for the first time. in real life.

nervous because we're talking about hundreds of women in close proximity for 3 days.

so i figure what could be a more fitting feature than these?

design by heda hokschirr || via the dieline

have yourselves a safe and eventful weekend!