10 Cane Rum is tasty rum, no doubt about it. In addition to the flavor, the bottle looks amazing with it’s screened classical engraving-styled front, it’s bright jaunty-angled label, and the embossing of RUM in vertical type on each side gives it that old school bottle feel. The folk that make this really know how to package this sweet golden liquid.

I bought a bottle a while back and it just looked to good that I felt guilty about drinking it. Me being the good little consumer I am, I just had to have a second bottle to sit and look pretty. So I go out and buy another bottle of 10 Cane, get it home, and I’m looking at the design on the front and what do I notice. A bug! A tiny little bug with wings floating around in my rum! I wonder how that got past quality control. Oh well, when I do get around to drinking it, which I will, I won’t sweat it; I figure the alcohol killed all the bacteria, plus I’m not a squeamish complain-y type person either.

UPDATE: Within a scant few hours of writing this I was contacted by one of the brand managers over at Moët Hennessy, the parent company of 10 Cane Rum, apologizing profusely for my unfortunate discovery. The next business day they had a new bottle FedEx’d out to me to replace the one with the fly. Quite unexpected and yet very awesome customer service to compliment the awesome rum. Time for a mojito.

From Draplin Design Co.’s blog.

I ordered some Obama stickers a week or so back from Sticker Robot and they just came in. Designed in conjunction Shepherd Fairey of the Andre the Giant Has a Posse fame, they look pretty sweet in person.

They also have a few other Obama sticker varieties in stock, and the profit from all the sticker sales goes straight back into getting more stickers made and getting more visibility for Barack Obama presidential campaign.

Cameron Adams over at TheManInBlue.com recently posted an article where he asked several prominent typographers to send him a sample of their handwriting. He then puts it up in contrast to some of their work. It’s interesting to see how some of the more famous among the type industry write on a day to day basis.

This article reminds me of the book Inspirability in how the author writes about each designer shown along side a survey filled out by hand from each designer. Some some the designers take the survey pretty serioiusly while others are pretty comical.

Recently I’ve been enjoying this simple typographic screensaver called Word Clock, those with CRT or plasma displays need not apply. It was created by a fellow named Simon Heys. He’s actually got some pretty neat stuff in his portfolio. I suggest you check it out.

Also, why aren’t there more cool screensavers like this?

Science Machine from Chad Pugh on Vimeo.