I have to come up with 3 new designs to decorate bottles with this weekend - 1 Boy, 1 Girl, 1 Neuter. All suggestions welcome (even the snarky ones). I'm vaguely thinking of going a nursery rhyme route, but could be persuaded to do something else if I get a better idea.

Thanks!

Cat

What's the target audience & age bracket ?

well… they're baby bottles… so… that's pretty much the age bracket. lol. As far as target audience, anybody who wants to buy a bottle for their kid/grandkid/niece/nephew/godchild, and isn't into the Avent or some similar system

Babies in outer space ? I see a baby playing with a planet looking like Saturn, or the Moon...My first thought was a jungle theme, but that might have been overdone already...& race cars, while cute, is such a cliche ...unless of course you do a girls race car theme....And dinosauers are all over the place so that's out ....Do they have to feature babies ? Human babies ? I'm thinking a mare & her colt, a mama duck & a string of goslings .....a mama bunny & a clutch of baby bunnies ...

Hmmm, well, the nursery rhyme thing's been done before right? How about for the boys you could do whips, snails and puppy dog tails and for the girls of course, sugar and spice and everything nice (whatever that is). Not sure on the neutral one, maybe a cool fractal design from a member here. :)

I'll think about it more and let ya know if I can come up with something else.

~Brain storming~ This is fun!

How about musical notes / symbols? Blue colors & tones for the boyz and pinkish colors for the girls and then a multi-colored one.

...more to come, I hope

thank you guys, great ideas so far, please do keep them coming. They will have to be printed as flat art, no gradient, so keep that in mind.

I think Budweiser allows their logo to be used cheaply for a good cause

would that be Budlight since its for a babby bottle.

LOL...Stag for the boyz and Bartles & James winecooler art for the girlz!!

What do you mean "flat art, no gradient"? No color? B&W then?

To be honest .. I have difficulty imagining EXACTLY what you do .. links please? ..

YOUR work .. not work by the people in your office that you have poked fun at

no, will be color, but solid colors only, no 1/2 tones, no gradients. I'll take the Strawberry Daquiri wine cooler tyvm. OOOH! FRUITS!

Ok .. what about an elephant squirting a unisex baby in the face with its own bottle

What'd I win?

How about some sort of play on the sex symbols?

(O+ ... <----- these guys is what I am talking about, except rotate it 90 degrees, kind of, sort of, sideways.)

Cutsier, of course ... now how you would accomplish that aspect, I leave to the artist. Oh, ok ... smiley faces in the middle of the circles ... and with an appropriate strand of hair that says this is the boy ... cowlick, and this is the girl ... curly tresses?

One main central one to each and then various shapes and sizes of the sex symbols repeated to fill the design.

The neuter one ... hmm ...

Just don't draw the babies with BIG EARS or there might be some kind of copyright flap from a certain member *cough* *cough* who shall remain nameless ....

no… but I did come up w/an idea for a series of animals looking a lil dazed and confused and the phrase "What? Me worry?". Anybody know if that phrase is trademarked?

and Mushy Boy… you win the right to design your very own line of kid's accessories. Get crackin, I'll take a 10% share of the profits… just for giving you the idea you understand 8•P

Sounds like MAD magazine would have that covered

alfred-e-neuman

alfred-e-bush

yeah, I think so too. *sigh*

and sorry, missed your question before, but I went and gathered previous examples, a couple of which I now realize never made it to production before. They were for a year that didn't happen, so I might be able to salvage some from there.

Ideally though, I'd also like to come up with some fresher ideas since most of those are over 4 years old, and styles have changed alot in the meantime.

How about a little kitten pawing at a goldfish in a bowl? I don't know, or maybe a kitten playing with a little mouse? That's all I've got for now. Let me think on it for a while..;)

Personally .. I would think that you should make the images appeal to the mothers .. rather than the infants ..

so .. a few mercedes benz's .. diamond rings .. Fabio's muscle-bound nose .. bank account statements .. houses .. glasses of white wine

what'd I win?

Keith's right...it should be targeted towards the mother or father, it isn't like the baby's going to go out and pick out which one it wants :) maybe a bear or something...some "different" is always better imo :)

lmao. yes, I thought of going the gold digger route too. however, I do not believe those designs would be accepted by my current company. btw… ICKKKKKKKKK @ Fabio…

my best friend and former roommate continues to crack up 10 years later over the "Fabio incident". It went like this… there I was, lying like a lump on the sofa, he's puttering around, getting some food, etc. I start channel surfing as he comes back just in time to hear the following happen:

*Fabio attempts to purr "I can't beli…"*
*me "EEEEK" in horror*
*sudden channel change*.

He dropped his plate of food on the carpet and howled w/laughter. Did you know it's really hard to get tomato sauce stains out of a carpet?

ICKKKKKKKKK @ Fabio = translation:

I crave ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok Absolutely FABIO


what'd I win?

OK .. back to bottles

You can lead a baby to water but you can't keep 'em from stinkin'

I would probably work water, splashing, fountains into it ...

are these going to be on the bottle .. or the packaging .. no baby feeding from a bottle has the slightest clue there's an image on it ... unless the mother has a tattoo on her .. uh ... upper torso

hey .. there's an idea .. put a tattoo .. better yet .. a prison tattoo .. that fits in with your single color, no gradient

I should just give you an address to send my winnings

Johnny, the Game Show Host "Well, Bill what does our shining faced boy win ? "

Bill the Announcer, " Johnny, our brave lad, for playing today's game sooo well wins a year's supply of Mushroom Stems, Pieces & CAPS in citrus scented olive oil ! "

And our shining faced, brave lad, cheeks creased with triumphant pleasure & glee, trots off to take happy possession of his winnings....after he pays the 137.75 % state income tax, of course

Hey .. (*me again*) .. how about a "Food Fight" series .. two babies squirting themselves in the face at pointblank range .. while other babies fling boiled carrots and applesauce

or ...

a Formula1 race car bottle .. horizontal bottle with wheels .. (*get it? .. formula 1 .. pffffttt!*)

or ...

babies playing 'spin-the-bottle' .. with other babies taking bets and collecting the money

I'll think on it some and come back with more 'gems'

lmao. so happy I can help you keep yourself amused 8•P.

Ummmmm, ahhhhhh, duuuuuh, maybe someone here has an idea.

How about this: Baby cows (ie: calves) in a cartoonish style; blue one for boys, pink for girls; and instead of cow spots (or whatever they might be called) you could put blue clouds on the boy cow and pink hearts (or similar) on the girl cow. The neutral one... uh... cow with Swedish flags on it??

lol @ swedish flags. thx for the ideas all, I've used some of them, notably Sam's cows, and Randy's music notes, I'll probably use others as I develop a backlog.

*smoooooooooooches* you guys are the best!

Cat

and… the winner is… drumroll please…

The designs w/Randy's musical notes were incorporated. As soon as it's in production and I'm allowed to, I'll post them so you guys can see what came of it. Thanks again!

Sa-weet!!! Thanks!!!

I assume cash & prizes will follow? :o

Do I get a percent of sales? Mo Money, Mo Money!! LMAO

Thanks again for picking my idea...everybody had some super ones!!

(*keith begins to scan the stores for babies experiencing a deluge of water in their upper regions*)

I WILL NEVER REST

wait patiently by the door mushy boy. ed mcmahon and his millions will arrive shortly 8•P

and yes… I will use the idea in my backlog that I'll start building up… in about 2 weeks.

Randy… um… I don't even get a cut of the profits… hmmm… we should all go into business for ourselves. Who's in charge of production?

(*raises hand*) .. I got dibs on "President of All Production Ideas"


(*races off to get a lightbulb hat*)

I'll be in charge of management. IE I tell you what to do, you do it, I get paid more.

Very well. I proclaim myself Top Muckety Muck.

*goes off to buy some suspenders and a bald skull cap*

No prob.....I declare myself Secret- Behind -The- Scenes -REAL-Person- In -Charge

the buck stops here ....hand it over, kiddo

I get paid MUCH MORE than Sam ....

Hmmm, what's left for little 'ol me?

I guess I'll be President of the Board of Trustees (yeah, total control baby)!!

:)

Well… I haven't been given the official okay to post these, but I approved pre-pro samples over a month ago, so I'm going to go for it.

Musical Jam Bottles

Vhat yew are LQQKING @:

Bottles to be sold as a 3-pack set, designs for Boy, Girl, and Neuter.

These will be screen printed on the bottles around 2/3 of the circumference. (the other 3rd has the measuring scale)

Interestingly enough I found out after I started working on them that I was limited to 3 colors per bottle.

Thanks for all the ideas everyone!

Sweet tunes Cat!! Congrats on a really great layout...they look marvelific!!

ps: luv the "Musical Jam Bottles" title!!

thx Randy! I had fun making those notes dance 8•)

That's what I'm here for babe, that's what I'm here for.

8~D

So .. No prison tattoos? .. I still think that was the best idea .. who thought of that one? .. I forget

I'm saving them for our start-up company… have you found a factory yet mr. production?

what about a pic of androgenous Pat { Sat. nite live}for the neutral?

I think Lauren has a sweatshop in Brazil .. they do all of her fractal knockoffs

Here is one for the uni-sex bottles... Put a Radiation symbol on it with the message

"Future Mutation in the works"
or
"Mutants Rule"

Or ... Michael J Fox peering at his uncle as a child in his crib .. with .. "get used to these bars kiddo" .. under it

M J Fox is behind bars?????