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We've all seen 'em, I hope. I'm talking about those glass bottles with the metal bottle caps that are both functional and decorative. This challenge focuses on the 'decorative' part.
Imagine, for a moment, that you're starting a new home brew business or about to offer a line of uniquely flavored sodas to the local marketplace. Since today's focus is on 'going green' you've decided to use returnable/recyclable glass bottles for your product(s). Plus, you've always secretly liked the look and feel of glass bottles. Everything is going smoothly and production is about to ramp up when you suddenly realize that you can no longer use boring, unadorned bottle caps for your product line.
Thus, the challenge is to create bottle cap artwork for your unique line of beer and/or sodas with a focus on your target market, all before production begins. For those that want an additional challenge, try to incorporate the 'Blend along a curve' or 'Fit text to curve' features of Xara Xtreme into your design. I used both features to create my 'Xtreme Cream Soda' bottle cap in order to get things rolling (see attachment).
I whipped up a vector bottle cap blank that you can use as your canvas (download the XAR file below). While one of Xara's fine products is the preferred software for this challenge, you're more than welcome to use any software at your disposal to design the bottle cap artwork for your new beverage line.
Don't limit yourself to just one!,
Harry
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Thanks for your help, Peter and Steve!
Here's another bottle cap I did to get things a-goin'. Trippin' Ale, the name says it all. This design incorporates the Blend tool, the 'Fit text to curve' feature, and the Mould tool with a Circular Envelope. This is the first time I used a Circular Envelope but I definitely liked the results on the 'Trippin' Ale' text.
What's in your sippy cup?,
Harry
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Hello Harry
I downloaded your silly bottle cap, expecting nothing more than a quick shape, Multiple star shape with rounded corners. But when I tried to move it, it started coming apart. My God, layer after layer, transparency after transparency, quick shape after quick shape, clip views, everything there but the kitchen sink.......totally amazing. Me, I see life as black and white, I have absolutly no idea how you come up with something so complex for something so simple. I offer my sincere congratulations, but take this with a grain of salt cause there is a lot of jealousy hidden behind it........:D..........frank
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Hey Harry, what a cool challenge, and it is a challenge for me. I would not have a clue how to go about making a bottle cap, so I'm glad you included one. As for the blend and text on curve, etc., that will test me for sure. I look forward to it.
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Frank > I read your post earlier today and it's been cracking me up ever since. I guess this was a mini-tutorial disguised as a challenge for you. I'm glad I could help expand your horizons. You need to wean yourself off of that 'black and white' vision thing and start playing with at least the 254 shades of gray in between. In another decade or two maybe we can convince you to start throwing a bit of color into your mix. ;) Oh, and if you've been around TG for a while and read a few of my other posts you'll know that I'm a big, big fan of the Clipview tool. :cool:
On the other hand, I've seen some splendid bottle caps that were done using only 'black and white'. That said, I'd like to see a submission or two from you for this challenge.
Nancy > This is, hopefully, something relatively easy that everyone, new users to seasoned Xtreme-ists', can do. When you get stuck at something in one of your amazingly realistic and complex scenes you can take a break and relax with a simple task. I look forward to your bottle cap(s). I know they'll be great.
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Alrighty then, here's another bottle cap of mine. Another quick shape, some text on a curve and some creative shading give, what I hope is, a subtle 3D looking effect to what is essentially a flat topped bottle cap. The background tiger image is from one of my favorite and mostly free stock photo sites (stock.xchng vi).
Havin' too much fun,
Harry
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Please don't let me have all the fun. It appears that I'm a lone man running a bottle cap factory. I need some more bottle cap artists on the payroll.
As Frank (Seagull) says, and I paraphrase, never underestimate the power of black & white.
Nothing earth shattering on this one; text on a curve, custom made arrows, and hand tweaked 6 & 9 letters using the Shape editor tool.
Cheers,
Harry
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Right ... finished the beer, you can have the cap now :D
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Nice cap, John. Catchy tag line for your brewery, too. I like the way you think! Since you already admitted to drinking the beer I guess there's no need for me to look under the cap.
Thanks for adding to the collection,
Harry
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No more hangovers anyway :cool:
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Hey, isn't that one of the new imported brews from Uranus? Drinking a few of those will definitely give you a warm glow. Sorry, I didn't get much sleep and couldn't resist. I have a few more comments where those came from, but I'll resist posting them. For now...
Good work on blending the blast image to the top of the cap.
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Your subtlety may need more work Harry..
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...Drinking a few of those will definitely give you a warm glow...
It was derived, by Arcturian Nihilists, from the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster - now illegal in some arms of the galaxy - the effect of which, "like a slice of lemon wrapped around a large gold brick" was deceptive. Well, you did ask :D
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These caps are a hoot and so cool. Keep 'em coming everyone! I will be doing a few myself but I can't just yet. I have time, right?
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Your subtlety may need more work Harry..
Could be... :D I don't know, though, Heinz has 57 varieties, Baskin-Robbins has 31 flavors, maybe that brewer offers 69 different micro-brews. We'll probably never know for sure. ;)
How 'bout I rotate the cap image 90º and modify the text? I always found the relationship and symbolism of the two symbols interesting.
A toast to you,
Harry
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Bill > Wow! That brings back some memories. It's been a long time since I've has a sarsaparilla. I used to enjoy a nice cold sarsaparilla, birch beer, or cream soda (white, red or blue - red was my favorite) when I was younger. I don't remember seeing any of them in recent history. Your bottle cap does well to capture the essence of the drink.
John > Don't forget, never travel without a trusty towel. I really enjoyed those books and was saddened when Douglas Adams died. I was so looking forward to the last movie release only to be tremendously disappointed. Even my daughter thought it boring and mostly a waste of film. I'll have to dust off my copies of the Hitchhiker series and re-read them.
Nancy > I'm glad your enjoying them. No need to fret, as there will be plenty of time to post. When you're ready, of course.
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Frances, that fizzy cap looks almost exactly like my tongue did after eating several different colored/flavored Zotz® candies back in the day (60's & 70's). I used to love those things. I even thought they were better than Pop-Rocks®. Another cool cap for the collection.
Thanks for contributing,
Harry
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I am also a fan. When I first read the original book my house number was 42. :)
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.....How 'bout I rotate the cap image 90º and modify the text? I always found the relationship and symbolism of the two symbols interesting....
Harry, the "69" symbol is Cancer not Pisces ....
P.S. Don't mention Vogon Poetry .... I did it once, but I think I got away with it ....
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Fred > Awesome bottle cap. I need some of that stuff to cure all of my ills, and then some. I like the antique-y feel you gave it. Did you put too many W's in the 10W30W part?
Bobby > Goes great with peanuts. Available in every galaxy in the known universe. And illegal in most! The big thumbs up graphic would catch my eye even when mixed in with other bottles.
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Harry, the "69" symbol is Cancer not Pisces ....
P.S. Don't mention Vogon Poetry .... I did it once, but I think I got away with it ....
Right you are Keith. I mix that one up all of the time. Those symbols always look like fish (or something ;)) to me. A corrected cap is attached.
P.S. - Not quite... Your mandatory therapy sessions will start immediately... Knock... KNOCK..
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"Singularities can also be divided according to whether they are covered by an event horizon or not..." The cap being the event horizon, the bottle being the singularity, the home brew must be Life. Or was that tea?
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Nicely aged that one Frances :)
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I don't drink alcohol - something a little more for the dry 'dusty' climate ;)
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These caps just keep getting better and better. I second Nancy's comment, "These caps are a hoot and so cool. Keep 'em coming everyone!"
John > A tip of the 'cap' to you. You've got that 'Text on a curve' feature tamed and working to your advantage. I'm still looking for a hidden message in the bubbles on your 'White Rabbit Soda' bottle cap.
Frances > You've managed to capture that grungy, worn look that bottle caps acquire from being 'shipped and handled'. Good work. I had a flashback when looking at your bottle cap. It triggered one of those strange, vaguely familiar, memories. Check out these links: My Pop's Root Beer and My Pop's Root Beer. I used to live, and still have relatives in, and around, the Wilkes-Barre, PA area as shown on the edge of the cap in the second link. I've seen and actually held those caps in my hands. Weird.
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Thanks for joining in Steve. Those camel bottle caps are classy looking. They'll make whatever beverage they go on a bargain at twice the price!
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Here's another one from me. This one is for a fictitious Texas Bottling Co. and the product is a Tequila Sunrise flavored soft drink (non-alcoholic). I was going for a little more subtle 'double' play on words this time.
I think it would sell,
Harry
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When I chose the name Pop's I was thinking of a Brand of root beer we get here sometimes, called Dad's Old Fashioned Root Beer. I had no idea there really were vintage pop's root beer bottle caps!
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Fred > Did you put too many W's in the 10W30W part
You're right, Harry! :o
The stuff also works as a glue, a fertilizer and a paint remover. ;) (probably much like Steve's 'Camel Dew' ) :rolleyes:
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Harry,
If you lived in Wilkes-Barre, PA area, I'm sure you will remember this drink-
http://www.yoo-hoo.com/
Regards,
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I love all these bottle caps. I've started 2 but can get one I like. Really hope to contribute.
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Harry,
If you lived in Wilkes-Barre, PA area, I'm sure you will remember this drink-
http://www.yoo-hoo.com/
Regards,
Oh, yeah! There's not much that's better than drinking a super chilled Yoo-hoo to wash down a Dagwood sandwich made with Dietz & Watson luncheon meats and cheeses stuffed between several slices of Wonder Bread. Of course this would be accompanied by some Charles Chips, preferably eaten directly from their signature tin drum. Then having a Tastykake for desert, to top it all off.
I don't know about you, Fred, but I'll take the glass bottled Yoo-hoo over their canned or plastic bottled product any day.
I'm hungry now,
Harry
P.S. - Here's my Xtreme bottle cap replica tribute to Yoo-hoo.
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CMONE > He sure is. Nice shiny cap you've got there. I'll bet TUX Beer is best chilled using polar ice. ;)
Fred C > Did you use some of Dr. Proctor's Fixer-Elixir to remove the extra 'W'? I hear it cures all ills from A...W...Z. Nice edit.
Nancy > I'm sure you'll come up with something you'll be happy with. Just start with something quick and fun to get the 'cap' rolling.
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I'm still being amused by making bottle cap designs so I thought I'd post my latest creation... LIQUID LUNCH. With half of the RDA of calories and twice the alcohol I doubt anyone will be returning to work. :eek:
All in fun,
Harry
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I did that ONCE with a co-worker and never did it again. Ruined the rest of the work day.