This is the proposed cover for issue 01 of Contains Caffeine Issue 01 featuring cover illustration by Zach Johnsen of Zenvironments.com.. The jury is out – tell me what you like and what you don’t before I send it forward into history (to the printers). And, yes, before you ask, it is meant to be blurry (the illustration only -  to give it the caffeinated feel.) And the illustrated part will not change. It’s Zach f’n Johnsen. Enough Said. email comments to chris[at]containscaffeine.com.au [...]

Take note all of you coffee and tea brands living in the dark ages thinking that your image is of no consequence. UK Clipper has recently rebranded and she’s a ripper. What a difference this makes. Head and shoulders the best looking tea pack on the shelf at woolies. And guess what that means? It got bought. Because quite often when you can’t taste what’s in the pack (ie think new customers that do not know the quality of your [...]

Work is underfoot for the all new Melbourne Coffee Review Book. If you like coffee and you live in Melbourne you will have probably found the MCR site. If you haven’t, you are probably getting tired of drinking sub standard coffee or maybe you have lucked out and found a good local?! Either way do yourself a favour and check out what all the hype is about and get set for the new book summarising the best of the best coming soon [...]

Think about your morning cup of coffee.

Many thanks to the always amazing printmaker/illustrator John Fellows (USA) for the amazing linocut artwork printed onto the 100% recycled envelopes used to send out the 09 media kit for super caffeinated publication, Contains Caffeine. Beautiful work -  check out more from John at his snow covered site here