cow gum - the sequel

Another wonderful thing about the web: if you can't find something, just ask - and somebody is bound to come to your rescue.

Thanks Charles - you're a prince among men.

And so, ladies and gentlemen, I can now reveal the iconic red and white can in all it's glory:-

And some cracking stories from Richard and David (read the comments in the post below). And David - I think we deserve to know about that 'adding shapes to your face' thing. Does that date from the same time as the half black, half blonde hairstyle?

Comments

[Charles]

My pleasure David. It was a lovely opportunity to test run some visual search engines on a proper brief :)

[bolaji martins]

thanks for ur website on cow gum, i just want to find out some trading companies where this product can be bought. thanks for ur anticipated assistance.
bolaji

[Grik]

Thank you for proving that I was not dreaming! I attended a seminar recently at the Women's Library in London where one of the Spare Rib collective was speaking about ye olden times when the pages of magazines were pasted up on boards. This brought a rush of nostalgia particularly when she mentioned Cow Gum. When I mentioned this substance to colleagues they all looked blankly at me and suggested it was a Northern phenomenon - actually we've got rather more sheep than cows in the area from which I hail.

[Derek Owen]

I used to spread some out on a glass plate at night. in the morning carefully rolled the outer edges into a circle and left a thin layer of about 50mm in the middle. carefully removed from the glass plate gave a very realistic condom which left by the tea urn would create some moments of joy. Good for fake shnollies (bogeys) too. i think a tube should be in the design museum