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Artist rendering: Crispin Porter + Bogusky
Baby Carrots will be receiving a packaging facelift to encourage healthier eating, and to make the stubby orange snack as extreme and in-your-face as possible.
Agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky has designed the new campaign to mimic popular junk foods — thereby attempting to seduce the feebleminded with horrible fonts and garish colors.
Ping Pong Table Wine is part of a self-promotional campaign by Rethink Communications. Adopting the Cosmo Kramer school of thought, the design firm created the series of table wines using… wait for it… tables.
Anyone up for some Wine Pong?
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Just as we were hoping that Chill Activation graphics were dying a slow death, Mommessin wine has recently adopted the Freezy Freakie technology. Their version of the packaging gimmick uses a ‘cool-dot’ on the bottle to let you know when their wine is at its prime drinking temperature.
Another seemingly good idea not thought all the way through—Prompt Design has put forth a line of t-shirts packaged to resemble food in a supermarket.
As if The King was not creepy enough—a new concept for Burger King’s packaging will have the crowned mascot staring at you vacantly while you consume your value meal.
The concept according to creator Bernadette Coughlin, “was intended to ‘make it fun’. My approach was to go further than a nice, clean design. I went with a more conceptual approach and made it something that customers could interact with.
Eighthirty is a startup New Zealand based coffee company. Their packaging relies on clean design and snarky copy to get you to try their fair trade, organic brew.
