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Packaging Design – Part 3

June 7, 2011 By palmirapereira Leave a Comment

My ongoing love affair with packaging design is exactly that, ongoing. The following are but a sampling, real &/or fictitious, of the hundreds, very possibly thousands, of innovative & creative ideas that are out there. In the mean time, I’ll do my best to keep you in the loop with many more packaging posts to come.

Via Lovely Package

SWEET TOOTH:Chocolate, how I love thee….

May 13, 2011 By palmirapereira Leave a Comment

These sweet colored pencils are actually chocolates made by product design firm nendo in collaboration with Tsujiguchi Hironobu of Chocolat de H, A Chocolatier in Tokyo, Japan. Each pencil is a different blend of chocolate, varying from mild to bitter. The kit with a pencil sharpener included can be used to create shavings to decorate desserts with. Available on line at www.icdh.jp

Chocolate Pencil Kit with Sharpener

From the Chocolate exhibition at 21_21 Design Sight space in Tokyo, Japan.

Mary & Matt Chocolate Bars

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Mary & Matt Chocolate Pie Chart

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If you’re counting calories, then the chocolate bar below is for you, each square tells you how many calories you’re consuming. You can’t beat that.

Rompibollo Chocolate Bar

Licking postage stamps is an unpleasant experience for most people, so why not make them taste like chocolate. Toby Ng designed a set of stamps called Chocolate Mail, which comes in 3 flavours – dark, milk and white chocolate. They are a set of 24 1st class stamps that are designed to look like a bar of chocolate, packaged as an envelope.

Chocolate Flavoured Postage Stamps

Filed Under: ENTERTAINING Tagged With: CHOCOLATE, FOOD. DESIGN, SWEET TOOTH

GREEN TEAM : Recycled Crates

May 12, 2011 By palmirapereira 4 Comments

Upcycling is a term used to describe the process of converting waste materials or useless products into new materials or products of better quality or a higher environmental value. The following are some great examples of the creative and imaginative ways this can be done using old wood, metal & even plastic crates that would have wound up being downcycled which is the other half of the recycling process . Downcycling involves converting materials and products into new materials of lesser quality. Most recycling involves converting or extracting useful materials from a product and creating a different product or material which is still in my opinion a good approach. On the other hand, if you can take an existing object and create something beautiful and functional without changing what it is but rather incorporating it into the new design, even better.