Thursday, October 29, 2009

Water In Plastic Bottles can cause danger to Your Health


A new study, conducted by researchers from Harvard University and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has exposed that drinking water from plastic bottles prepared with the toxic chemical bisphenol A (BPA) raises urinary levels of the chemical by nearly 70 percent.

BPA is an industrial chemical that makes plastics hard and transparent, reports Environmental News Network.

It is widely used in plastic drinking bottles, baby bottles and other consumer products, and also in resins that line cans of food and infant formula.

The study, conducted on 77 student Volunteers showed that the chemical disorder the hormonal system, potentially foremost to reproductive defects as well as brain damage, cardiovascular disease, cancer, obesity and diabetes.

Friday, October 16, 2009

Bottle Type Collection Photo Gallery

The bottles featured in the photo gallery depict a small portion of the entire collection at the SACRF. Types of bottles in the collection include: bitters, ale, beer, food, household items, ink, liquor, oil, patent medicine, perfumes, cosmetics, pharmacy medicine, snuff, soda water, wine, and champagne. The bottles assembled in this type collection are drawn from numerous extensive archaeological collections housed at SACRF, including Old Sacramento SHP, Fort Ross SHP, Columbia SHP, San Juan Bautista SHP, Old Town San Diego SHP, and Sonoma SHP. The majority of the bottles exhibited in the photo gallery were gathered from Old Sacramento SHP.








Monday, October 5, 2009

Top Ten Artwork Mistakes while making Custom Label Bottled Water

The things you shouldn't do when submitting a custom water bottle label design are,

1. Submit a 4k or 5k jpg of your logo
2. Fax a scanned image of your label design
3. Mail or send a 72 dpi image
4. Copy and paste pictures from someone else's website
5. Send a photo through the mail from a commercial photographer without his/her authorization
6. Send more than one section of detailed instructions about your design
7. Use WORD, PageMaker, or Corel Draw to create your label
8. Present copyrighted material.
9. Revise too much text on your label making it unreadable.
10. Mail a colored pencil outline of your design idea.