Fashion's Night Out with Tommy Hilfiger!

 

For this year’s Fashion's Night Out, on September 8^th, Galison teamed up with Tommy Hilfiger on giveaway items that they distributed at their 5^th Ave. flagship store.

Corresponding with Tommy’s Fall ad campaign, which features vintage cameras, we imprinted their logo onto the backs of our vintage camera photo album.

The items were being used as a gift, with purchase, for all sales over $150.  Check out one of our marketing associates posing with the albums on display at the cashier counters.

This is the perfect first picture for the Tommy Hilfiger photo albums!

 

~Lauren & Shannon

City of Burbank - 100 Years

 

The City of Burbank, CA is turning 100 this year. And to help celebrate their centennial they asked Galison/Mudpuppy to produce the perfect 100 piece puzzle!

Galison’s Private Label division borrowed the design from Mudpuppy’s 100 piece puzzle tin, took the art work from the City of Burbank and, voilá, 100 pieces to celebrate 100 years!
 
 The special Burbank puzzle celebrates “the traditions of the City’s past, present and future”; showcasing Burbank’s strong ties to trucking, aviation and the movies.

Burbank will be hosting a “Party of the Century” on July 8^th with an air parade, music, fireworks, and much more. They will even be opening a time capsule and filling a new one to leave for future generations.

Perhaps we should start thinking of a 200 piece puzzle design for the bicentennial!

 

~Shannon

Drumming up Business

History buffs, take note! Recently, Galison’s Private Label team developed two custom projects for the Pennsylvania Heritage Society; a Drum Puzzle and Correspondence Set. They will use both items to complement traveling exhibits and programs that commemorate Pennsylvania’s 150^th anniversary of the Civil War.

The State Museum of Pennsylvania is home to a vast collection of historic memorabilia, including a period drum used during the Battle of Gettysburg (1863). Our task was to create a puzzle container that would replicate the design and shape of this historic drum. To accomplish this, our first step was to tweak the dimensions of our popular Mudpuppy 63 Piece Puzzle format to make the packaging squatter and wider.  We then had to seam 32 individual pictures of the drum together to simulate a 3D image. Finally, we increased the dimensions, 18" x 14" to 29" x 14", and piece count, 63 to 425, of the puzzle, to make it more challenging for its adult audience. The puzzle stored inside the newly designed drum depicts Peter Rothermel's painting, "Battle of Gettysburg: Pickett's Charge".

In addition to the Drum, we designed a Civil War Correspondence Set utilizing our Galison Stationery Set format. As we learned, soldiers of the Civil War were prolific letter writers. Decorated stationery and envelopes were widely used and often featured patriotic designs and slogans. Using ephemera from The Library Company of Philadelphia, a collage design was created to serve as the packaging artwork. Our in-house designer then created a pattern to simulate aged and faded paper for the sheets and envelopes in the interior.

For more information about Pennsylvania’s statewide anniversary programming, visit: http://www.pacivilwar150.com.

Have a look at the National Park Service’s Gettysburg Battle Field web site for a virtual tour and a lot of interesting information. http://www.nps.gov/archive/gett/getttour/main-ms.htm

 

~Lauren & Shannon

Big Book of Packaging

Our Galison design team has just received news that a number of Galison products will be featured in this year’s The Big Book of Packaging!  

The Big Book of Packaging is a comprehensive guide showcasing the most innovative designs in packaging from around the world.

The book is a great resource for the future of packaging and design; and this year 1/3 of the book is dedicated to the “green” movement.

Galison also supports going green with a line of 100% recycled products including Notecards, Notebooks and Notepads. Just because it is good for the environment doesn’t mean it can’t look pretty too!

Some of our Galison Private Label products also made the book!  Galison or Mudpuppy can customize a format to suit your needs; like these custom sticky note boxes we designed and made exclusively for Anthropologie. We don’t want to spoil everything in the book, so we're just showing a small peak of what you will find when the book is release in late March.

You can see all the featured Galison products by purchasing The Big Book of Packaging when it hits shelves March 22^nd.

 

~Shannon

Lions and Pigeons and Books, Oh My!

We at Galison are very lucky to work only a block from the great New York Public Library building that stretches from 40th to 42nd Street on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan (on the site of an old water reservoir--but that's another story).

Patience and Fortitude, the nearly 100 year old marble lions flanking the main entrance, are our friends and neighbors, so we were especially happy to work with the the New York Public Library Picture Collection to create a set of holiday cards for the NYPL through Galison's Private Label division. The cards feature a painting of one of the Library's iconic lions with a special seasonal accessory.

In the style of Galison's own Galison Green Writer's Notecards, the NYPL cards are made of 100% recycled paper. They are available from the NYPL's online store, and here's a photo of them in the library shop:

 

 

Robert Quackenbush illustrated the northernmost library lion, Fortitude, in position with the traditional holiday wreath and some snowflakes beginning to fall. Heather Schellhase, one of our Galison designers visited Mr. Quackenbush in his E. 78th Street studio and took these photos:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Heather reported: "I was just going to take a picture of the display Mr. Quackenbush has in his window, but while photographing I noticed he was in there and asked if I could come in.  He was amazingly nice and said he's so impressed with the quality of the cards.  He also showed me some of his work, including children's books he's written and illustrated. 

Anyways, I talked with him for a good half hour, and it was lovely!"

Robert Quackenbush has written and illustrated more than 200 books for childen. You may smile to remember Detective Mole, Doctor Quack, and Henry the Duck characters or the Miss Mallard mystery series. If not, have a look! 

But back to our leonine neighbors. How did the library lions get their nicknames? Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia suggested "Patience"and "Fortitude" because they were qualities New Yorkers needed to endure the economic depression of the 30's. Lucky they are still here to offer encouragement to us today!

 

--Susan