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It's Payback Time
New feed bags for Payback, an animal feed brand by the agricultural company CHS, earned Colle+McVoy a well-deserved product packaging award from AIGA Minnesota's 2006 Design Show of Excellence. The bags are simple and earthy, and they appear almost homemade. They feature clean typography and a unique color-coding system. Colle+McVoy is a full-service marketing and design agency based in Bloomington MN.
Poster Child For Change
The history of the political poster tells the story of various social movements that have tried to change world over the last 40 years. "The Graphic Imperative," an exhibition of 100 political posters curated by Frank Baseman, Chaz Maviyane-Davies and Elizabeth Resnick, is at Philadelphia University's Design Center through May 23rd, and will open at the AIGA National Design Center in New York City on June 15. Contact: www.thegraphicimperative.org
Summer Book Is Spring Rite
The American Players Theatre's Book of Summer is an annual rite of Spring. APT is a Wisconsin-based Shakespearean repertory company that offers summer, outdoor performances of the Bard's works. Each year for 16 years, the advertising and design firm Planet Propaganda has created a new edition of Book of Summer, which is sent to 10,000 subscribers and previews APT's upcoming performances. The 2006 edition features woodcuts by Planet's Curtis Jinkins. Planet Propaganda is located in Madison WI.
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