HBO Promotes True Blood With A Beverage

To hype up this season's June 13th premier of the HBO series True Blood, a blood orange carbonated drink inspired by character Bill's favorite synthetic blood nourishment beverage, has been launched via promotional tv spots, print ads, downloadable posters, and online ads.

TV promo:



Print ads:

  

Posters (available for download here):
   
Tart and slightly sweet, Tru Blood pours like a regular soda but appears stormy and mysterious when poured into a glass. The Tru Blood beverage features: •Stunning bottle design is exact replica of bottles featured on show: stained in rich red with raised English lettering and matching Japanese Kanji! •14 ounce per bottle • sold in 4 packs and 24 packs. A matching bottle opener and Party set (which includes opener and glasses) are also available:

      
Drink Menu:
The Fangbanger - Tru Blood, Vodka Death on the Beach - Tru Blood, Peach Schnapps, Pineapple Juice, Vodka Plasmapolitan - Tru Blood, Citron, Cointreau, Fresh Lime Juice  

Ingredients:
Carbonated Water, Cane Sugar, Citric Acid, Natural Flavors, Potassium Citrate, Carmine Coloring, Potassium Sorbate, Sucralose, Sodium Citrate, Sodium Benzoate, Caffeine, Niacin (Vitamin B3), Caramel Coloring, Red 40, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Vitamin B6, Cyanocobalamin (Vitamin B12), Folic Acid, Gum Accacia, Ester Gum.

 HBO's True Blood Homepage

The Sake Bomb. A Modern Drinking Vessel Inspired By The Puffer Fish

What better eay to get bombed on sake than with the hand crafted ceramic microwaveable Sake Bomb, a modern sputnick looking vessel with four incoporated sake cups that can hold hot or cold sake.



The Sake Bomb is hand crafted in Los Angeles. It is available in a variety of vivid colors with a sealed matt ceramic finish. To ensure the complexity and geometric nature of the sake bomb remained true, the manufacturing process combines both high-tech modern technologies with traditional handcrafted techniques. The vessels were initially design in 3D CAD software and printed using a 3D FDM printer. From these objects plaster molds were taken and traditional slip-casting procedures are employed to create the ceramic versions for kiln firing.



This whimsical pouring vessel is a comical take on the western slang “Sake Bomb”. The inspiration is a juxtaposition of the Fugu Fish (Blowfish or Puffer Fish), the most opulent of sashimi cuts and a WW II sea mine. The small drinking cups perch neatly on the spines making it a compact entertaining tool.


above: the Fugu, also known as the Puffer Fish or Blowfish served as the design inspiration

The Sake Bomb was designed by Alexander Purcell founder of APRRO an interdisciplinary design studio based in Los Angeles.



Available in four colors:



Because the Sake Bomb is ceramic it keeps both your hot sake hot and your cold sake cold. To heat sake you may place Sake Bomb in microwave for a minute. Sake Bomb holds 8 FL OZ (235 ml)

$98.00 USD Buy it here.

Kacper Hamilton's 7 Deadly Wine Glasses

7 hand-blown red wine glasses created to depict the 7 deadly sins. Designed by Kacper Hamilton of Hamilton design, each glass encapsulates a sin, which is revealed through the ritual of drinking.


Gluttony:



Sloth:

Wrath:


Envy:


Greed:



Lust:


Pride:



Glasses are available individually, as a set of four or six (of the same glass), or as a complete set. The full set of all seven glasses comes in a mahogany box as shown below. Limited Edition of 25.



contact info for the designer:
Kacper Hamilton
kacperhamilton@mac.com
phone: +44 (0) 7957 441405


Buy the limited edition glasses separately or as a set from here as long as they are available.

2008 Bombay Sapphire Glass Design Competition Entries

Most of you are familiar with the Bombay Sapphire ads that show a lovely martini glass along with a bottle of the product. Depending upon how observant -or astute you are, you may have noticed that they always attribute the glass design to its creator in the small text. That's because each year Bombay Sapphire has a design contest and the winning 'glass' shows up in their ads.

This year, the winning design named Palletini, was created by Michael Krtizker. (see below):


But what you don't get to see are the numerous beautifully conceived of entries that didn't win, so I wanted to share some of those with you.

The design parameters were as listed below:





Unfortunately I haven't the time to list each and every wonderful creator of the following designs, so please be sure to see the names of these artists in gallery of finalists by clicking here.

Below are some of the entries that deserve to be admired but will not be seen in any of the ads:









So raise your glass to these beautiful designs! Salut!