Jameson Cigar Co. is a premium boutique based in West Virginia and Miami, Florida whom Sputnik's Associate Designer, M. Brady Clark designed their recent Santo's De Miami packaging. Santos de Miami features all Dominican grown tobaccos with a Havana Corojo wrapper, Criollo ’98 binder, and Corojo and Criollo fillers.  Presented in a box press and finished with a pig tail cap, the scope of this project included custom band, label & box top design.

Stephen G. Jones designed a traditional yet lavish look for Crowned Heads' J.D. Howard Reserve. The name of this cigar brand was inspired from the alias Jesse James, the famous American outlaw who is best known for his legendary life of crime (robbing trains and banks across the Wild West in the years after the Civil War). Jesse James used the name J.D. Howard while hiding out in Nashville on 711 Fatherland in the 1870s. Jesse James' story is what is capture in Crowned Heads' J.D. Howard Reserve packaging. The elements of Jesse James' period pushed Stephen G. Jones to create almost everything by hand, from the monogram and ornaments to the box lettering.

As of December 1st 2012, Australia leads the world on the war against Tobacco by becoming the first Country in the world to enforce a ‘Plain Packaging’ law on Cigarettes, stripping off all brand logos, colors and any brand related graphics. 

A modern design for a compact premium loose leaf vaporizer.

"Christian Kranich of Vienna, Austria has a mammoth collection of cigarette packs representative of over 150 countries and spanning several decades.

"King Nargile is a new brand specialized in tobacco products as: charcoal briquettes, charcoal tablets, hookahs and all smoker'sarticles. As shisha smoking is mystic and calming experience the proposal was to create something very clear and calm but still with a drop of shisha mystery

The good folks at Oglesby & Butler, the worlds leading manufacturer of portable herbal vaporizers (yes, those) sought Sequitur Creative and ID partners at Thing Tank out to help them reinvent their category.

Paola Meraz, San Diego City College created a cigar brand and packaging inspired by George Burns, American comedian, actor, writer. 

"Dark, rich, and flavorful, Burn Cigars are the ultimate trademark of masculinity and class. A classic icon of American humor and wit, George Burns was the inspiration behind the creation of Burn Cigars."

Dumante Verdenoce is quickly becoming a popular high end liqueur. In order to expand their product line they wanted a specially blended premium cigar to accompany their unique flavor profile.

This week sees the launch of jkr’s new design for Swan cigarette filters & papers, marking the brand’s first revamp in more than a decade. Check out the before and after below.

 House tobacco label design for Holtz Tabak und Pfeife, Frankfurt, Germany.

"The final solution needed a strong sophisticated vintage feel but also be fun, a challenge solved by the pairing vintage typography with an illustrated set of quirky smoking characters."

"The snus (moist tobacco) market in Norway is well developed with many established brands. The introduction of a smoking ban meant that even more consumers became interested in this more socially acceptable product. A crowded market and new consumers required a different kind of product which would be a simple, functional and easy to understand. The Lab Series consists of 2 products, the products have no product names but are simply numbered making them both memorable and easy to order. The design relies heavily on pictograms which ensures that they are informative and easy to understand for those unfamiliar with snus."

This work is from Russian designer Slava Fedutik.  Not sure what it is, but it's really pretty!  Looks like cigarette packaging which is pretty cool. More after the jump.

Here is a vintage cut plug tin by W.M. S. Kimball & Co. It's graphics are very different from the previous tobacco tins we've been posting. It also opens in a somewhat surprising way. Have a look!

More vintage Brazilian cigarette labels with great typography and rich colors. Courtesy of Helena Hennemann.

Via designer Helena Hennemann's personal collection.

From designer Helena Hennemann's personal collection.

Here's another great vintage tobacco tin. Via a great Etsy shop called SecondFiddle.

In case you're wondering why there is an abundance of tobacco and cigarette tins being posted, it's not because we have a personal obsession. Tobacco was America's most prevalent crop during the 19th century, making it not only a mass produced item, but also very well-designed to compete with the various producers at that time. Photos courtesy of MM design studio.

Lucky Strike Half and Half Tobacco, 1927. Artwork by John Held Jr. Via Art Deco.

This is a vintage tin of "Old English Curve Cut Pipe Tobacco" made by the American Tobacco Co.

Despite it's wear over the years, the vibrant colors and hand-drawn lettering on this tin are as exquisite as ever. I love the unexpected harmony between 4 different typefaces being used in a 3 inch space. Full tin below.

It seems like everybody's got one lately. Here are a few:

1.Matt Lee's Indian matchbox collection.

2. The Sardine King's Sardine Label Collection.

3. Colby Thueson's Oil Can collection, courtesy of his dad.

4. A Sake roundup by Danish designer Julie Katrine Andersen.