Entries tagged with 'design'
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Eat Me Daily The blog Eat Me Daily takes a look at food-merchandising signs. They're so ubiquitous as to be almost invisible, but when viewed en masse you begin to see a sort of beauty and subtle playfulness in their variation....
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The previously mentioned Anti-Theft Lunch Bag designed by Sherwood Forlee is now on sale. A pack of 25 bags costs $10, and 5 percent of your purchase will be donated to Freedom from Hunger....
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Advertising Age Kellogg's is testing a shorter, fatter cereal box. But unlike some recent package changes that have short-changed consumers, this one doesn't futz with the amount of product inside. Says Advertising Age: The new packaging contains the same amount of food, but the shorter, fatter design is expected to fit into pantries more easily. Ms. Miller said it will also save grocery-shelf space, allowing retailers to offer a wider variety of products. Since it involves an 8% decrease in materials, the new box design is also stands to burnish Kellogg's green halo. Detroit will be the test market. The study will last about six months, Kellogg's says, before the company decides whether to roll it out nationwide. [via...
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The Morton Umbrella Girl over the years. From Neatorama. Did you know Chef Boyardee and Sara Lee were real people, but Betty Crocker and Aunt Jemima weren't? Neatorama covers the stories behind the logos of 10 famous food companies: Morton Salt, Heinz 57 Varieties, Jolly Green Giant, La Vache qui Rit (The Laughing Cow), Aunt Jemima, Betty Crocker, Chef Boyardee, Sara Lee, Quaker Oats, and Gerber Baby....
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Brazil-based designer Anderson Horta brings the virtual world into your kitchen with the Clicking Kitchen Grip, oven mitts made to look like pixelated hand cursors. [via Unique Daily] Related: Awesome Oven Mitts Apron With Built-In Oven Mitts...
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Blondie & Brownie Blondie & Brownie have some tips on optimizing your food porn images before they go through the Obamaicon.me generator that Paste magazine came up with. These would make good decorations for your inauguration party....
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If you're an orange juice drinker, you've already noticed the Tropicana brand redesign. The New York Times had a bit about it last week that explains the motive behind the drastic change: One noticeable change is the disappearance of the longtime Tropicana symbol, a straw stuck in an orange that stood for the juice’s fresh taste. The device is being replaced by a tall glass filled with Tropicana and an orange-colored twist cap atop large cartons that is shaped like a halved orange. Here's what design geeks said about it when previews went up in October: This new packaging feels, at best, like a discount store brand with what looks like, again, at best, rights-managed stock photography if not outright...
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Photograph from uberzombie on Flickr If soda cans looked as beautiful today as they did decades ago, I might actually want to drink their contents. Design blog Packages of the World has a nice roundup of vintage soda cans featuring simple, clean logos and bold colors. (And although I understand the need for reinventing brands, I much prefer the old Mountain Dew logo introduced in the '70s to today's logo, which has some kind of extreme, distorted, "I'm glowing with radiation" aesthetic going on.) [via The Dieline] Related Soda Pop Stop: One-Stop Shopping for 450 Different Sodas Coke Zero Zero 7, New James Bond Packaging Coca-Cola Light Bottles Designed by Roberto Cavalli...
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Photographs from mpreis.com Believe it or not, that's a supermarket at top. It's one of the handful of Austria-based MPREIS stores. More at Cool Hunting....
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The best chicken wings come from chickens who sweat fear. From cheetafight.com. Cheata Fight Image Library by artist Anthony P. Munoz is full of great, mostly hand-painted vintage signs from around the world. Some of our favorite food-related signs include ones involving panicking chickens, "Chainese Fost Foods" from India, and this painted menu featuring a stack of pancakes and unidentified black disks. [via Super Punch] Related Photo of the Day: A Rediscovered Sweets Shop Photo of the Day: 1957 Neon Dunkin' Donuts Sign Being Dismantled Photo of the Day: Jim Georgie's Donuts...
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