Office Snowball Fight

This year, the team at Barker Gray decided to offer some of the fun of a traditional northern hemisphere winter to their clients in the South who are baking in the heat of summer.

The ‘snowballs’ were made up of from studio waste paper. When unwrapped they revealed some of the unsuccessful ideas that didn’t quite make the cut – amongst other delicious treats.

The packaging was inspired by the English Victorian period and the charming imagery and language from that time.  In keeping with the era, the tub was gift-wrapped in simple brown paper and string before being delivered in bundles to our happy clients

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Bitten Cookie Cutters

ABC (Already Been Chewed) cookie cutters with bite marks!

Cute!

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Modernizing The Christmas Tree

A "modern" twist to the natural and synthetic trees we've grown accustomed to!
Made with 100% recycled cardboard.

Get you Christmas tree here.

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The Designer's Balls

"Some designers have them, some designers don't!"

4 CMYK Christmas balls for the perfect geeky designer Christmas tree:
Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black.

Hmmm...would be cool to have Pantone Christmas balls!!!

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The Santa Brand Book!

Awesome! I love branding and I love Santa, so you can just imagine how much I'm lovin' this!

The Santa Brand Book by the Quiteroom. Download the pdf here.

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The Ugly Christmas Sweater T-Shirt

A cute spin on those ugly sweaters that your grandma always gives you for christmas!!!

Buy them here.

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Imaginitol

"To create an interesting and engaging invitation to The Creative Method Xmas party. It needed to illustrate what we do but also create a high level of interest and anticipation for the party. It needed to be humorous and memorable. It was also required to work as a new business piece outside of the Christmas invitation.

We based the idea on an imaginary pharmaceutical tablet that would solve their creative issues. Initially they were emailed a doctors prescription, followed by the package in a discrete paper bag. The invitation and the tablets were located inside. The party included staff dressed as doctors & medicinal shots administered by transvestites. The box and invitation are used as a new business teaser."

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Mulled Wine Bottles By Buddy Creative Studio

A bit way past Christmas, I know, but still definitely worth posting!

"As a seasonal greeting to clients and friends Buddy designed and sent bottles of spiced mulled wine. Their Christmas wishes were pad printed matt silver directly onto the glass of the bottle, the design being suggestive of measuring jug graphics. The concept therefore, the more you drunk the merrier the message."

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Mini Cooper Christmas Ad Campaign

Just after Christmas, MINI strategically distributed massive cardboard cartons with torn gift wrapping in trash heaps all over the Dutch city. Each box had a large diagram of the car with the words MINI COOPER across the top as if the car had been packaged inside.

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Library Card Christmas Card

Wish a Happy Christmas to the librarian or book lover in your life with this clever Christmas card by simplesongdesigns. You could just send one to everyone this year and stamp them annually to renew!

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Wine Bottle Greeting Cards

Created by Imagehaus, Toast-its are greeting cards that wrap around wine bottles.
Above are the designs I like most.

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Facebook Holiday Gift

As a Christmas gift to its top advertising clients, Facebook typically gives money to donate to a charity of their choice, along with a special item like last year's reusable shopping bag. This year they decided to do an art poster and the in-house Communication Design Team got to work.

The result is a 19 × 19-inch-square poster that is printed, embossed and foiled with a delicate, intricate and obsessive design that has the signature typographic and illustrative style of Ben Barry, a designer at Facebook — and if you've been following his cryptic photo status updates on Facebook you finally have closure on what he was working on all this time.

To encourage the donation aspect of the gift, the poster comes with a silkscreened, wooden token that is then customized on the back with a unique code for redeeming the donation. But the token doesn't just lay there, no, it comes nested in a pretty little flower-like pod that holds it in place. And even opening the poster requires paying attention to the custom printed packing tape and the lovely rubber stamp that has been stamped by hand.

There are also two different Thank You cards printed in 1-color offset and clear foil stamp.

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The Merry Newsinator

The Merry Newsinator by Plaid Creative lets you customize a personal Christmas newsletter in a matter of minutes. Also you can share it with facebook, twitter, email etc.

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Controller Ornaments

Every geek needs to deck the halls, and these laser cut controllers are definitely fun and festive.
Check them out.

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iPhone Cases By Pantone

Pantone is offering iPhone and iPod Touch user their unique Pantone color cases, available in 8 hot Pantone Colors with free personalization either with 2 lines of text and/or a logo. At only $19.99, this would make a great gift this Christmas season, for your designer-creative friends.

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Christmas By Color

Last year, Raw Design created the Christmas by Colour project that ask a host of designers and image makers to submit a Pantone reference to a colour they felt summed up the festive season. This year, they have take it step further by producing the most popular Christmas colours into Pantone style Christmas card.

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