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A baker’s dozen — they’re not just for bagels and donuts anymore. Brought to us by Randy Ludacer of Beach Packaging Design, the concept not only adds a thirteenth egg for the price of twelve, but the polyhedral packaging could potentially save space in supermarket refrigerators. And, the diamond-shaped spaces in between the 13-packs form convenient hand-sized gaps for easy grabbing. Just make sure that all 13 are intact.
[via Box Vox]
Although the Pringle chip might be a marvel of engineering and design, their packaging is anything but. That slender cylinder — far too narrow for the hand of the average potato chip eater to fit down. And once that Pringles can has your grubby little mitt in its clenches, resisting only makes it worse.
Bloom Chips, a design concept by Dohyuk Kwon, looks to solve this problem. The can retains a cylindrical form to protect the chips within, but will literally bloom open to create a handy snack bowl. Although the design may encourage you to eat an entire cylinder in one sitting — you can feel better knowing that the night won’t end with your hand stuck in a potato-chip-can-trap again.
The original intent of Food Art Friday was to try to showcase one artist working in a specific medium. However, if we were to find an aggregation of the best food art over the past few years, packaged as a giant sugar wafer — we’d be willing to make an exception.
Eat Me: Appetite For Design, designed by viction:ary, is a celebration of food as an art medium. Whether it’s packaging design, branding, or interiors — Eat Me supplies sweet layers of the best food-inspired art available. Eat Me: Appetite For Design is currently available at Amazon.
Eating is no longer a pure experience of smell and taste but rather an effective agency to communicate and engage, an indication of cultural values, lifestyle, artisanship, criticism, aspirations and imagination this present day.
[buy one here, via The Dieline]
Covered here before at Foodiggity, Eric Barclay uses his signature style to repurpose packaging into beautiful and playful works of art. His latest work tells the story of Ranjit and Indira, using matte acrylic and utilizing the contours of the package — in this case, a 2-liter Coke bottle.
Ranjit and his elephant Indira
Carried the orphans through tiger country
And the tiger through people country
As they journeyed to the Valley
Of Never Ending Happiness
[link, thanks Eric and Kirsten]
Joël Penkman is a fine artist and graphic designer that we’ve featured here before on Food Art Friday. Seen in some of her latest work, the signature style remains — food item on stark gray background, and good enough to encourage paint-eating.