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Recent graduate from Texas Tech’s School of Communication Design, Cari Caldwell shares one of her projects, Java Nest Coffee. Take a look below.

Java Nest Coffee

“My concept for my packaging is a retro feeling coffee. It is a series of coffee that uses the onomatopoeia s for the various blends of coffee, such as Cock-a-doodle-doo for breakfast blend. The brand name I made up was Java Nest Coffee because of the bird theme. This was an open project for my student portfolio, and was awarded “Best Packaging” in Texas Tech’s senior portfolio show for Communication Design. ”

Side and Back View

Java Nest Coffee

Morning Blend "Cock A Doodle Doo"

Cock-A-Doodle-Do is the Breakfast Blend

Hoot is for the night owls

Chirp is the original blend

Beep is the  instant coffee

Gobble Gobble is the holiday blend

I am so proud of Cari Caldwell, she is my daughter and not only did she win the “Best Packaging” award at her Senior show, she also was awarded the “Best Overall Portfolio”

Cari’s work has been featured on a few packaging websites since her graduation.LovelyPakage.com and TheDieLine.com

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Yesterday I went with my daughter to the art school at Texas Tech, and listened to a speaker, Amos Paul Kennedy Jr., a printer who specialized in Print Press Posters.  There was a documentary done about Mr. Kennedy, and the name of the documentary was “Proceed and be Bold”.

Listening to Mr. Kennedy, was so inspirational to me.  Mr. Kennedy has not always been a printer, he worked in the corporate world for several years.  He has been making prints for the past 7 years in a small town in Georgia.

One thing that really hit home to me, is he said you don’t have to be in a big city like New York to be a successful artist.  You can create your art where ever you are.  Since I am also from a very small town, this made me realize that the possibilities of being a successful artist isn’t out of my reach.

I have been wanting to get back into creating art,  The poster, and the documentary about Mr. Kennedy, has given the inspiration I need to “Proceed and be Bold”.

Not only did Mr. Kennedy inspire me, but he made me think a lot about life.  I really liked his philosophy about life.  When he spoke about thinking outside the box, he gave some examples of maybe thinking what your favorite song would look like as a poster.  Maybe not necessarily just putting the words on there totally, but making an art piece out of it.

I have always heard the statement “Think outside the box” but I never really knew how to do it.  Mr. Kennedy gave us several examples that made me realize what all can be done.

I just want to say :

“ǝɟı1 ʎɯ ǝbuɐɥɔ ǝɯ buıd1ǝɥ ǝ1qıssod puɐ sǝʎǝ ʎɯ buıuǝdo” ɹoɟ ʎpǝuuǝʞ .ɹɯ noʎ ʞuɐɥʇ

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