Typography & Packaging

Another Bloody Water

Another Bloody Water is a new bottled water brand that was designed by Subgroup Design and is now on the market in Australia.
According to Jay Dillon, the director of Subgroup: "It tends to stand out on the shelves, by not standing out. Whilst all the other brands are fighting on the shelf with the same old cascasding water falls and water droplets etc. Our clear invisible bottle makes a focus of the water inside. Because after all it's just another bloody water, right!"
The whole back of the bottle is taken up with amusing copy that tells the story behind the brand:
Since we unceremoniously (some say rudely) barged our way into the overcrowded bottled water market with a good-looking bottle, a smartarse name and a devil may care attitude it has come to our attention that our competitors don’t like us*. They think we are taking the piss. That we mock the overly flowery, exaggerated language and the poorly drawn waterfalls and diagrams of volcanos on their labels. They think that we are not taking the serious aquatic science of bottled water…well seriously.

So to quash any future smear campaign and rumour mongering they may come up with, we’re going to set the record straight right here. Smart Alec name – yes. Just another water – no.

First up our water is bloody good. Better than most. It comes from a spring, high in the Victorian Alps, which is a bloody long drive from civilisation (see: pollution). The only farms in the area are organic which means no nasty pesticides or any of those other evil poisons end up in the water. In fact we deal with the rampant blackberry problem by setting our deer on them. It’s a tough gig for the deer but they seem to like it. And while we’re blowing our own trumpet independent Government approved laboratories have done tests and they reckon it’s lower in sodium than all other major brands on the Australian market. Did we say it tastes bloody good?

So there you go, Doubting Thomas competitors – cards on the table. Enjoy Another Bloody Water, everyone. And then when you’re done with that enjoy another Another Bloody Water. And so on.

* We don’t actually know if our competitors don’t like us. But being ‘competitors’ we’re pretty sure they don’t.

Speaking From Experience (by me)

Here is one of the flipbooks i created for the 'Speaking From Experience' project towards the end of my first year at Design College.
The 3 books show the new students (who are unfamiliar with their new surroundings) the route to take to get to key locations in the college for which a graphic designer depends on. The last image (book 1 of 3), gives a route to the Digital Print Studio, taking the student from the College entrance right through to the Studio's door. Then when the book is upturned, a 360 degree view of the print studio can be 'flipped' to view.

Annoyance Video

Here's a video example of the reading of my book of 100 Annoyances.

WHAT IS GRAPHIC DESIGN.

Appropriateness.

Aesthetically Pleasing.






Engaging an Audience.





A Product I'd buy