Recycled Material Bags

Ecoist is a company that specializes in creating bags and other accessories with recycled materials. Some of their bags are created with recycled maps, newspapers, aluminum, and candy wrappers.

Maybe next time, when your girl friend ask for GUCCI or LV something, you can make one for her and say: “Every single part I make represent my love!” Hahaha...

More Sex Condoms

1 design briefing, teams of 2 people, 24 hours, maximum 2 proposals. The brief was to make an appealing package for three condoms as a give away for danish non-profit organization Sex and Health. The target group was young people from 15-25 years of age. Combined with no sleep, thai food and lots of coffee this was what we made in the 24 hours. This, our first proposal, is a handy package constructed so it opens from the right to left, revealing a simple humoristic statement when you take out a condom. The statements simply connecting condoms with having sex, and no more condoms meaning no more sex. The message should come across in eye level with the target group with out being patronizing or judgmental."

Concept for a packaging competition : Mads Jakob Poulsen and Robert Nagy

Calendar made of matches

"The idea was to create as unique a calendar so that the process of its presenting would become an outstanding event. Alongside with this, it was important to expose the idea of "energy", as it is predetermined by the name and logo of the company. Each page is a month and it looks like a comb made of matches that correspond to the days. The matches are real and the construction of the calendar is absolutely safe."

• 9.8 inches wide, 5 inches high.
• Bound on metal spring 1.2 inches diameter.
• Silk printing 2 colors.
• Matches are dipped in a special chemical solution and covered with sulfur, striking surface stripes are applied on both sides of a stand base.

Artist: Yurko Gutsulyak / Ukraine

McDonald's New Packaging

Over the next two years, McDonald’s will roll out its newly designed packaging to nearly 14,000 of its restaurants in the US, and then to another 117 countries worldwide. Birmingham UK based design studio Boxer Creative was commissioned by McDonald's to undertake this massive makeover. According to Boxer, the goal was to "change the way the world feels about eating McDonald's food":

"The new design engages in an honest conversation about the quality of McDonald's food. We have created a global packaging design system that embraces a consistent framework but alows for customization to create local market relevance. Its bold and simple design celebrates all that's good about McDonald's, shilst reassuring consumers about the origins of the food they are about to eat."

See photos of the rest of the packaging, as well as a history of previous designs after the jump. What do you think? Are you lovin' it?

Original picture from : Andrew Gibbs on Dec 14, 2008