Gallery of Vintage Soda Cans
Photograph from uberzombie on Flickr
If soda cans looked as beautiful today as they did decades ago, I might actually want to drink their contents. Design blog Packages of the World has a nice roundup of vintage soda cans featuring simple, clean logos and bold colors. (And although I understand the need for reinventing brands, I much prefer the old Mountain Dew logo introduced in the '70s to today's logo, which has some kind of extreme, distorted, "I'm glowing with radiation" aesthetic going on.) [via The Dieline]
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5 Comments:
I don't know. Only the Pepsi and Sprite look great. The Howdy! orange soda looks like a can of Comet cleanser. And the old 7-Up and Del Monte cans are pretty hideous!
Adam Kuban at 5:35PM on 01/06/09
@Adam: Oh my god I TOTALLY WANT THAT HOWDY! CAN!!!
sniff.
roboppy at 5:41PM on 01/06/09
Interesting, Pepsi actually redid their logos recently (including Mountain Dew), to quite horrific results:
http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/pepsi_new_bottles.php
I don't mind the old school looks, but I'm no way in love with them. (Minus the Mountain Dew is for Hicks look, that's sexy.)
pcrackenhead at 6:15PM on 01/06/09
i want a tee shirt of the old mt. dew logo, its adorable.
redzerostar at 6:17PM on 01/06/09
@pcrackenhead: The new Pepsi bottles feel so lifeless to me. :[
I also like the Mountain Dew for Hicks. (Or now...Mtn Dew? Uh.)
roboppy at 6:19PM on 01/06/09