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ReubenMiller's Got a Brand-Spanking New Look!

I'm sure you've noticed by now that we've got a fresh new look for the blog. After a lot of coding, tweaking and generally making a mess of CSS, I've managed to get it to look half-decent (let me know what you think of it!) It still remains a work-in-progress. The goal of this redesign was to make it easier to get around and add some more color. After all, you know we're suckers for color!

Last but not least, our large header incorporates the work of a featured artist. We'll be featuring different artists in that space and rotating them over time to keep things interesting. This isn't a sponsored spot, but rather a testament to our support of great artists. Our first feature is of the brilliant and witty Simon Oxley, one of our all-time favorites.

Enjoy!

Resealable Soda Can with Ads

I discovered this really interesting packaging concept that allows for a soda can to be resealed called Soda-Seal. The concept was invented by Johan de Broyer of Ukraine and co-inventor, Robert Davis of Davis Advertising. Robert is credited with design and development of patent drawings, 3-D models and video animations of the concept in action.  

Watch video animations here and here. The latest video is here.

(video screen shots above and link references are courtesy of Davis Advertising, Inc.)

Alexa's Top 90 Design Weblogs

Want to know the top design blogs according to Alexa? Well, we've compiled all 90 of them. I have no clue how they come up with these rankings, but hey, these are great sites to check out and bookmark! (ReubenMiller ranks 24 - not bad.)

1800 Tequilla Essential Artists Bottles

Earlier this year 1800® Tequila launched a campaign featuring nine cutting-edge artists. Each piece of artwork is featured on 1800® limited edition tequila bottles, all of which can be purchased.

Each artists' style is unique, representing various designs, mediums and perspectives. The nine artists featured in this limited edition production are: Dosa Kim (Atlanta, GA), Glenn Barr (Detroit, MI), Artillery (Chicago, IL), Chris Dean (Detroit, MI), Jorge Alderete (Mexico City, ME), Josh Ellingson (San Francisco, CA), Hannah Stouffer (San Francisco, CA), Jeremy Bacharach (Chicago, IL).

The bottles are great collectibles - whether you decide to drink the contents or not.

Continue reading to see more photos and learn about how you can apply your own artwork to a bottle (and even buy it), and how to enter your art into a cool competition.

Gloji

Among the winner from the 2008 Pentawards, was this little gem Gloji.

(Via sharesomecandy)

Mast Brothers Chocolate

People in the know who live in the NYC tristate area go to Artists & Fleas in Williamsburg to find the best and the newest stuff to buy - from jewelry to chocolate. Speaking of chocolate, we've been noticing some talk about Mast Brothers Chocolate. These chocolates are the work of two artisans and brothers, Michael and Rick Mast. I couldn't help but notice their chocolate bars, which come wrapped in pretty Italian papers. They make a gorgeous presentation when stacked side by side. I suspect they will gather quite a following based on some of the tasting reviews of their chocolates, which are made from some spiffy single origin cacao beans. As something of a chocolate fanatic, I'm pretty excited about discovering this great new arrival on the artisan chocolate scene - on the east coast no less.

More pictures below.

(discovery made at coolhunting)

Pepsi Raw

The kings of sparkling refreshing goodness are now joining the natural and healthy revolution. Enter Pepsi Raw. This new version of Pepsi is made from natural ingredients like apple extract, coffee leaf, cane sugar, and sparkling water. Sounds delicious - and I'll bet very Pepsi-like but in a good sort of way.

The bottles are also very svelte and have a more high-end feel than ordinary Pepsi. I am unsure about the typographic treatment of 'RAW' - it could be this type treatment was selected to fit in with primary Pepsi mark. The mark was designed by Ziggurat (read more about the identity here).

Pepsi Raw is launching in the UK in bars and clubs before rolling out globally. The US identity design may likely be different the UK version shown above. We'll have to wait and see what we get in the US, then!

Read more details about this new product launch here and here, including some ads.

(via BrandonBlog)

Eat Them Pixels

Yummy cookies made with a primitive pixel system (how about 4 dpi resolution?) Get the how-to here.

(via Core77)

Guns 'N Eggs

What do you make of this?

[thanks DumpTrumpet]

Tcho-colate

Louis Rossetto, co-founder of Wired magazine, has turned tech into taste with his new start-up, TCHO Chocolate. One of the few companies in the US that make chocolate from the bean (not just remelt pre-made chocolate), TCHO is joining the ranks of true chocolate makers like Scharffen-Berger, Theo and old giants like Guittard.

We thought the subtle tech-references were cute - they call the first version of their bars 'Beta chocolate', and their 'latest release' is 'Beta Batch: C Ghana 0.1' - all references to software and tech-talk.

Still, the packaging is appealingly low-tech with simple print on unbleached recycled paper. I'm curious if the packaging is beta, too and will get 'upgraded' over time!

Here's more info, from Financial Post.