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A 1957 illustrated price list from the long established biscuit manufacturers Macfarlane Lang who had works in Glasgow, the Victoria Biscuit factory, and London, the Imperial Biscuit factory at Osterley in Middlesex. The company's origins dated back to Lang's bakery in 1817, the merger with Macfarlane being cemented in 1841. The first expansion to London had been to Fulham but in 1930/31 they constructed the Osterley plant on a greenfield site. In 1948 the company merged with McVitie & Price to form United Biscuits.
This price list shows the range of decorative tins alongside the standard range of shortbreads, sweet and chocolate biscuits a few of which were available in tins but the majority in Fiberfoil or Fiberseal packets. Along titled 'price list' no prices are shown in this catalogue; prices would have been shown on a separate loose sheet that could be easily amended if required. The Price List was printed at the well known printers Pillans & Wilson of Edinburgh & Glasgow.
These pages mostly cover the standard retail 'offer' as apart from the tin of Assorted Chocolate Biscuits these are the shelf packets of various biscuits including; Milk Chocolate Tyrol, Milk Chocolate Seville, Chocolate Vienna, Assorted Chocolate Biscuits, Milk and Plain Chocolate Wheatmeal (or Digestives), Custard Creams and Bourbons.
Client: M&C Cafe Bar
Brief: produce a colourful illustration for a child's menu
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A series of promotional items for the fictional brand of RedMane and it's limited edition Baijiu celebrating the year of the horse - 2026.
What a fine trade advert is this - for Robinson's of Bristol, as it includes three tipped in labels - one fof the famous Cadbury's Dairy Milk chocolate (in the famous design by Norbert Dutton, the bones of which survived for many decades), one for the ffliliated Fry's company and their 'Crunchie' and one for Duncan's of Edinburgh and their 'Nutty Crisp'. Duncan's were a famous Scots brand before takeover and closure although a more recent attempt to re-invent the brand did take place. Their strapline was "Duncan's - the Scots word for Chocolate".
Two for the price of one here - The Metal Box Company Ltd., an early 20th century merger of various packet and box producers and printers, showing their expertise in not just the production of packaging but also the work of their in-house design studios. These jam jars were designed by P Pickard Jenkins MSIA, FRSA. The "St Martin" brand was owned by Foster Clark Ltd., who although based in Maidstone, Kent has works elsewhere including Ely in Cambridgeshire. Founded in c1890 the company made early 'convenience" foods such as powders, baking goods and jams. The brand is no longer in existence in the UK - the company were taken over in 1965 by Brooke Bond Oxo. Amazingly the successor company still trades - now based in Malta.
A reminder of when for "white washes" boiling was seen as a requirement and necessary - in the days before modern detergents and low temperature washes. Daz had been launched only a few months before this December 1953 advert, manufactured by the Newcastle upon Tyne based Thomas Hedley & Co Ltd. Hedley were one of the UK's main detergent manufacturers in a market dominated by the various Unilever concerns.
Hedley's dated back to 1837 and were one of the various Tyneside companies in the soap and later chemical based detergent industries. In 1930 they had been acquired by the American company of Proctor & Gamble who kept the Hedley name for many years before phasing it out. PG's brands, including Daz, are still amongst the market leaders in the UK. The advert relies heavily on the packet design, bright and eye-catching, to draw the eye in along with the rather old fashioned 'guarantee" that if the company's products, that included Fairy Soap, Tide, Dreft, Oxydol, Mirro and Sylvan, didn't "work" you could obtain double your purchase price back.
The good old 99 Tea from the Co-op - this packet of loose tea dates from the decimailsation changeover int he UK of 1971 - the price is shown in shillings and pennies as well as new pence. At the time the Co-operative Wholesale Society still had tea blending and packaging plants that for many years were 'Joint" between the English and Scottish CWS.
The use of aluminium sheet or slugs to form tubes became popular int he mid-20th century before the widespread adoption of plastic for such pacaking. This advert by Northern Aluminium shows a range of tubes formed from their products by the Venesta Company for a range of well-known brands, some of which are still with us today, Colgate toothpaste being one. A range of shaving creams, seldom seen these days, include those by Yardley, Palmolive, Ingram and Shavallo. It would be wise not to mix them up with other products shown such as Le Page glue or Rawlplug plastic wood!
Rod Hunt recently worked with Hornall Anderson Design in Seattle to illustrate the Brain Cruncher game to appear on the back of Quaker Life Cereal packaging. Five different versions of the illustration were created for the Original, Cinnamon, Strawberry, Apple Cinnamon & Maple Brown Sugar flavours.
© Rod Hunt 2012
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Lightbulb package found in our house in Michigan. The former owner was an Electrician and has all sorts of old Detroit packaging left in his workroom. Awesome!
Business card for psychologist. It has two parts, inside and outside. When you move the inside part out, a name is showing up.
I've been commissioned to do a custom birthday gift packaging, as a papercraft fish. The deadline was very tight, so I did this in ca. 6-7 hours, incl. drying. I've left a slot open on the top for putting in the presents, concealed from view with the dorsal fins. They loved it.
I just love these two small seed packet size packs of Luxigro rod fertilizer. Manufactured by the County Chemical Co Ltd of Shirley in Birmingham - best known for its tradename of Chemico - the company is still in business although now they specialise in automotive products.
This catalogue for 1929 showing box tops for chocolates and biscuits was issued by the Leeds colour printers George H Harrison & Sons of the Statue Printing Works. It was issued in two formats, for large and small cartons, and contains numerous stock designs that could be overprinted with a brand and retailers name. The colourways and designs are very 1920s 'chocolate box' in style with little of contemporary graphic design! They show very traditional scenes, Christmas and such, as well as charming 1920s 'flappers' along with a smattering of historical and 'Far Eastern" promise and delights! The prices ranged from 55/- per thousand for designs in Section C, through 65/- in Section B and Section A's designs coming in at 75/-.
The title page is rather old-fashioned in style even for 1929 but is designed to show the technical skill of the company. The Statue Printing Works was situated on Lovett Road, Leeds.
Tequinox: "Tea time just got a little more interesting."
This is a 3x3 inch box for Tequinox NIGHT tea. Tequinox is a lounge and tea bar that offers regular tea during the day and alcoholic recipes at night. This package holds ten black tea and elderflower flavored tea bags. On the side there is a recipe for the Boston Tea Party Martini.
The Tequinox logo is in the shape of a tea leaf in the center and the negative black space on either side of the text in the logo also shows a two-leafed shape that resembles the shape of tea leaves before they are picked.
The various 'trade annuals' of the 1940s and '50s are often stuffed full of fascinating packaging design - nearly all in black and white. In this case, one of the adverts for an advertising agency actually has colour examples of some of J Walter Thompson's work - so here can see some famous names - Horlicks, Rowntree's, Harpic, Lux and George Rowney along with some that have been lost on the way - Wisk and Pin-up for example that are described as 'new brands'. Didn't do so well there lads!
The Rowntree's brands shown include the now world famous 'Polo Mints" - Rowntree's have of course been swallowed by Nestle. The brightly coloured containers with a screw top are for Harpic lavatory cleaner. The "Brand's" brand, seen here on baby food, was for a company best known at the time for its 'Essence of Chicken" - it is now a popular name worldwide - I think mostly used by the Singapore concern of Cerebros, another old British brand.
JWT are one of the world's oldest 'ad agencies' and, at the turn of the 20th century, were amongst the agencies that fostered a modern understanding of the word 'brand'.
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