Good morning from Dieline’s editor-in-chief, Bill McCool. Here’s your daily side serving of design news, short musings, brand stuff, and forgotten ephemera.
Holy Tide boxes. Y’all wanna see some Grade-A packaging porn? We sent Charlotte Beach to the Chicago Brand Museum, and her interview with the founders (along with her many, many pictures of expertly crafted packaging from the past) does not disappoint. Somehow they have 15,000 pieces of packaging ephemera on display, and that’s JUST a third of their collection.
Obviously, I am watching the Phillies fall apart in real time, and I’ve never been much of a football guy anyway, so I’m just learning about this. Anyway, like, yeah, make some kind of law, but the Washington Commanders’ argument about dropping nostalgic throwback merch with the old Redskins logo because they would lose the trademark rings pretty fucking hollow to me.
As a grown-ass man who occasionally sneaks his children’s Capri Sun pouches, I can firmly attest that the pouch is too dang small, and I felt the same way when I was their age, too. But it does feel like they’re 100% making BIG pouches for the infantilized set over 30.
Man, I don’t often think about the very, very, very intentional design of Wikipedia, but I’m certainly glad I read this piece on It’s Nice That with the creatives behind the site.
Uh...yeah, the reason I’ve been ghosting you is because of, uh, a broken business culture. Yeah, that’s the ticket.
Incidentally, this is me apologizing to everyone I have ghosted in the past. The editor’s inbox is insurmountable. It is not you. It’s just a very busy me.
Food waste contributes to global warming, and Eva Chistyakova‘s Nativo concept explores that issue through frozen food packaging that incorporates climate maps into the design.
And speaking of climate change, our data centers apparently burn more natural gas than some nations. So that’s great!
-Bill