packaging as content

January 28, 2009

Tobacco Packaging & Air Guitar

I don’t know what it is about tobacco packaging and guitars but they are somehow connected. Probably it all started in the 1800s with cigar box guitars. (Subject discussed on box vox: here)

As the roll-over image above will show you, the match pack on the left contains Dunlop guitar picks, and the reused Camel cigarette pack on the right is a mini guitar amp from Smokey Amps. Both were gifts. (Thank you, Ray. Thank you, Tim.)

(See 1 more way that guitars and tobacco may be connected, after the fold…)

Some guitarist-smokers will park a lit cigarette under their guitar strings, but if they get distracted by something—(say, playing guitar?)—they may risk burning the headstock. A possible solution? “The Gig Cig,” Ted Crocker’s neck-mounted cigarette holder.

Randy Ludacer
Beach Packaging Design

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