Following the baseline that J&B Rare scotch blend whisky was born in London at exactly the same period tattoos started to become popular, the brand decided to celebrate this origin by literally tattooing 25 bottles.

The bottles are covered in latex skin, tatooed by owner of Le Sphinx private tattoo room in Paris – who spent around 20 hours tatooing each bottle. The bottles are now for sale at Paris at Publicis Drugstore and at L’éclaireur rue Herold, in rough black silkscreened wooden boxes.

On this Day, February 11

1983: Weird Al Yankovic recorded his debut LP.

2011: The second season premier of Mortal Kombat premiered online.

2014: We celebrated Emelia's birthday!

CG

On this day, February 5

1972: Mandatory inspection of passengers and baggage begins on U.S. Airlines.

1994: Where On Earth Is Camen Sandiego debuts on FOX.

2014: We celebrate Drew's birthday!

SB

Honest Slogans

I'm not certain if all these make sense for the UK audience...

Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/clif-dickens/26-slogans-that-frankly-m_b_4674980.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009

CG

Design that's so underground

Look closely next time you are riding the tube to see if you can spot any of these:

David Hockney: A Bigger Exhibition

Last Friday, TDSF spent the afternoon at the de Young museum viewing David Hockney: A Bigger Exhibition, the first comprehensive survey of Hockney’s 21^st century work.

First noted as a painter under the British pop art scene, Hockney sustained his fame through his oversize murals of the English countryside. Many of these were on display at the de Young, usually with just one mural taking up an entire interior wall. Hockney’s use of scale, color, and multiple perspectives gave typical landscape scenes a greater sense of grandeur and excitement. Experiments with other media were also on display, including Hockney’s work with iPad paintings and multi-frame “patchworks” of video. A corner of the exhibit was dedicated to showing the end-to-end process of his iPad paintings, giving the unique experience of being able to watch his images quickly build again and again.

Shout-out to Joanne for the green light on the tour!

photo courtesy of Dave-Pat's excursion to the de Young tower! (Dave- facebook photos are fair game, no?)

http://www.hockneypictures.com/

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/24/arts/design/recent-david-hockney-work-at-the-de-young-in-san-francisco.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1390398236-n71KgxdLNBve4nII82Mdqg

MC

Thoughts that have been bottling up inside

Tuborg Design Manager, Sofie Moller (TD alum), and Design Director, Jessica Robinson, explain the Tuborg redesign.

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAVvhPnVI9g

CG

Upscale Alcohol Packages using Sustainable Packaging Practices

Veuve Clicquot 
A 100 percent secondary pack for transportation made of potato starch.(Promo video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3xe9KyzI0s)

Ippon Matsu beer 
A swing-top bottle aimed at raising funds for the reconstruction of post 2011 tsunami Japan. All profits from the sale of the beer go back into reconstruction efforts in Japan.

Hauswine
A boxed wine that eliminates the use of heavy and energy intensive glass and breaks from cliché wine imagery.

Jm

Santa Brand Guidelines

http://www.quietroom.co.uk/santa_brandbook/one

Awesome Santa brand guidelines. Andy found this, but he was to conflicted to blog it since he hates Santa but love brand guidelines.

BL

On this Day, (Last Friday) December 6

2011: Six Roseville, MN women accused a massage therapist of sexual touching.

2013: Liisa told me to put a teddy bear in Craig's birthday post.

2013: We celebrated Craig's birthday!

CG

TDSF spent a wintry lunch break at fuseproject, a local product design firm, gaining insight into their multi-disciplinary processes and viewing their brand-new studio space.

Curt Collinsworth and Logan Ray were on hand to walk us through their successful relationship with Jawbone, their recent overhaul of the Nivea brandmark and bottle design, and talked briefly of their soon-to-debut Public Office Landscape collaboration with Herman Miller, which they've been testing within their own studio since moving in during the Spring.

fuseproject offers a wide range of services under one roof, and their ability to craft an entire brand story holistically shows through in their work. A successful process to note as TD grows!

      

The Sayl chairs were used in the Hunger Games! And we sat on them.

MC