Glass Celebrates a Summer of Limited Editions
Brands across the world are looking at glass to promote their products in a new way this summer with special releases packaged in, or created with glass. Jack Daniels has released a special-edition...
View ArticleIs a Quirky Milkmaid the Milk Jug of Tomorrow?
Founded in 2009, Quirky is a website where designers can submit ideas for new products and gain valuable feedback from the public. A few months ago Quirky, together with GE, launched a competition to...
View ArticleMaking Glass Sing
Germany’s GlassBlowSing-Quintet started using glass bottles to make street music in Berlin around 12 years ago. By 2003 they were earning their living on stage. And the best bit according to the...
View ArticleABSOLUT Vodka launches 4 million one-of-a-kind bottles
ABSOLUT Vodka are known for doing things a little differently when it comes to setting their product apart from the competition. But the company’s new ABSOLUT Unique campaign is a first for glass...
View Article‘Glass Remains Glass’ Animation Wins Golden Dolphin
Vetropack, one of Europe’s largest packaging glass producers, has received a Golden Dolphin for its animated video – ‘Glass Remains Glass’. Through a conversation between two glass drink bottles in a...
View ArticleWhy Preserve Jars are Made of Glass [by guest blogger Jakk Ogden]
Jakk Ogden writes for Wares of Knutsford, a jam jar and glass storage jar specialist located in England. He wrote this very first guest blog post for Blog in a Bottle. We hope you’ll all enjoy it....
View ArticleHelp Save Tuscany’s Glass Blowing Heritage
Five years ago, glass artist Isak Lystad moved from Seattle (US) to Tuscany (Italy) to practice his craft and learn from the masters. But when he arrived in Florence he found that many of the glass...
View ArticleGlassy, classy eye-catchers
You can d cialis order o far more with old glass packaging than simply take it along to the bottle bank because it can be re-used in all kinds of different ways. Sybille Homann has come up with the...
View ArticleUpcycling Glass Coke Bottles Creates Treasure
Since Coca-Cola’s contour bottle was first introduced almost a century ago, it has become a design icon and closely associated with the Coke brand. In parts of the world such as Asia, the glass contour...
View ArticleInnovation in Glass
Almost all wine and spirit producers in the world utilise glass bottles for their products and have done for centuries. That’s because glass preserves the taste and flavour of the contents perfectly...
View ArticleBottled Wishes project captures the hopes and dreams of 50 leading...
Picture: Some of the bottles that will be turned into a work of art at the Bottled Wishes exhibition in London this month Friends of Glass invited 50 of the UK’s leading voices on building a more...
View ArticleAnadolu Cam Poster Design Competition 2013
Anadolu Cam, the glass packaging division of the Turkish Şişecam Group, held a poster design competition in the beginning of 2013. The concept of the competition was “Glass Bottles and a Sustainable...
View ArticleAn unexpected twist in glass wine bottles
Anyone who has opened a bottle of wine in the past ten years is likely to have been confronted with a synthetic cork. You will know how difficult they are to extract and that they are almost impossible...
View ArticleGlass-inspired interior design
Everyone wants their home to have that special or unique character to it. From the funky furniture with that extra oomph to the cute and quirky paintings, trust that we can always find a way to make...
View ArticleMurano, Venice – Glass Tourism Hotspot!
It’s always nice to get away for a while, see the world, learn some new things, explore, or just relax. So, in honour of World Tourism Day on September 27, we thought it would be nice to profile a...
View ArticleGlass Packaging – Absolutely Inspiring
The glass packaging industry is always in motion – always innovating, growing, and finding new ways to spark excitement and creativity. At the same time, some classics remain – after all, almost...
View ArticleGlass Garden
Remember those great summer moments, outside, in your garden or a park, surrounded by flowers and so much green? Now, with autumn here already and winter just around the corner, the world is about to...
View ArticleSay ¡Hola! To Spanish Glass
This past Saturday, October the 12th, was Fiesta Nacional de España. While Spain may be well known as contributors to the food and wine industry; did you know that Spain and glass also have a...
View ArticleHappy Halloween!
The nights are growing longer and the leaves are turning colour which can only mean one thing – Halloween is almost here! Did you know that “trick-or-treating” actually evolved from an ancient Celtic...
View ArticleMusical Glass
Everyone has a favourite musical instrument. From the sweet and graceful flute, to the deep and haunting cello – musical instruments have a way of striking a chord in everyone (pardon the pun). But...
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