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If you like to play with your food, and you’re all about the label, we have just the photo series for you.
FabFood, by Linus Morales, helps give a few food items a major upgrade, by simply applying the logo of high-end fashion brands.
A typical pork chop goes couture with the addition of a Gucci logo. And, if your unbranded toast isn’t helping you feel better about yourself, a Louis Vuitton logo burnt-in might help.
[link, via designtaxi]
Artist Bruce Yan re-imagined a few classic cartoon characters as corporate mascots. As seen here, Ariel becomes the Starbucks mermaid. And, here at Foodiggity, we’re always a fan of the Starbucks logo being messed with.
Yan also mashes together Astro Boy and Bob’s Big Boy, creating a seamless merge of the two. See more of Yan’s work here.
Graffiti just got tastier, with a fun project by photographer Dorota Pankowska. Officially-titled, Pro Bono Promo, Pankowska used actual food items to recreate the brand’s logos on walls throughout Brampton, Ontario.
The fun part of the project, was watching the temporary street art slowly deteriorate — whether through natural decomposition, or from passersby licking the art. It’s OK, Brampton, we won’t judge.
That’s How I See It is a re-imagining of some fast food and drink logos, with some painfully truthful results.
Brought to us by Saudi Arabian graphic designer, Adelbanfeel, he does a redo on a few famous icons, but fattens them up. Similar to the way these companies’ products fatten up humans. Take that, skinny golden arches and svelte Colonel Sanders…
Artist Chris Write has created an illustration series that takes some well-known sports brands and adds cheese. Brands such as Reebok, Fila, and the easy target of K-Swiss get the cheese-y treatment, as Write has a little fun with them all. I’d wear Briebok.
Check out more from the series here.
