April 8, 2013
I wake up early to knock out the posts here on the Sticker Giant Blog. More often than not, I'll start clacking away at the keyboard before the sun comes up. If it wasn't for a strong cup of coffee, my eyes would never be prepared for the glare of the computer monitor, much less the sunlight as it begins to stream through my East-facing office window.
I've often pondered the potential of coffee as a reanimator of the living dead.
Enter Stage Left ...
Zombie Coffee, a Washington, D.C.-based purveyor of roasted magic strong enough to bring the dead back to life. (A lesser blogger might throw in a government worker joke here, but I'll refrain from doing so, thank you.)
We recently printed these packaging stickers for Zombie Coffee and couldn't help but be struck by the simple beauty of their logo design. The best logos needn't be complicated or contain a zillion colors.
The dot in the "i" of the Zombie Coffee logo is an eye ... a graphical depiction of a bloodshot eye, with an extremely droopy eyelid, ringed by tick marks that suggest a clock. It conveys its magnificent message in just a bleary-eyed glance ...
Ring! Ring! It's 7:00 A.M.! Move y'self to go again Cold water in the face Brings you back to this awful place Knuckle merchants and you bankers, too Must get up an' learn those rules - Strummer/Jones, 1980
You'll find Zombie Coffee located in FroZenYo stores throughout the Washington, D.C. area. Want to bring back the dead to life in your neighborhood? Franchises are available!