Up There

Do you ever look at old buildings with the faded paintings on them and wonder what they looked like in their "heyday"? When all of the ads on buildings were hand-painted and not just some large piece of vinyl that was printed in a shop somewhere? Or wonder who the guys were that painted that 30 story mural on scaffolding with small brushes? Did you know that there are still companies who do that?

Check out this really cool documentary about the art of hand-painted murals. So worth the 12 minutes...at least it was to me...I want to hire these guys to paint the entire ALICO building in downtown Waco and then I could stare at a beautiful painting all day long.

UP THERE from The Ritual Project on Vimeo.

I got this from the lovely Rifle Paper Co. blog who got it via Billykirk's Blog.

Clever Little Bag

Awhile back Lovely Package tweeted about this innovative design from Puma and I haven't been able to shake it since. You can read all about the reasoning behind changing from the traditional shoebox to the "clever little bag" on their blog. But in case you don't have time to read the whole blog post, read this paragraph:

"With our “clever little bag”, Puma kicks-off the next pivotal phase of its’ sustainability program. The tens of millions of shoes shipped in our bag will reduce water, energy and diesel consumption on the manufacturing level alone by more than 60% per year. In other words: approximately 8,500 tons less paper consumed, 20 million Megajoules of electricity saved, 1 million liters less fuel oil used and 1 million liters of water conserved. During transport 500,000 liters of diesel is saved and lastly, by replacing traditional shopping bags the difference in weight will save almost 275 tons of plastic."

highly addicting

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