10.30.15 The Jack Facts

Who’s Jack? And what’s up with the lantern? There’s a lot of ancient tradition involving scary lights at harvest time. Pre-Christian Europeans celebrated Samhaim, the autumn festival of the Dead, with bonfires and torches and other late-night illuminations. Samhaim was later displaced by All Saint’s Day, but the fascination with…
2015

10.16.15 Promising Packaging

You don’t often equate scientific advancement with the swilling of a few beers… But consider Carlsberg Brewing Company. It was established in Copenhagen in 1847 by J.C. Jacobsen, a wealthy philanthropist, who named the company and its flagship brew after his son Carl. From the beginning, the company has been…
2015