Highlighting smart, aesthetically-pleasing design in food packaging.
Packaging Whore
June 1, 2011
Packaging Whore: Wrapper’s Delight
Oh great, here we go again. Another blog post about Japanese food packaging design.
But you know what? The reality is that the Japanese kick our butts many times over when it comes to intelligent, fun and groundbreaking ways to wrap something edible. Ok, so there actually are American designers at work behind the scenes
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April 15, 2011
Packaging Whore: Gyokuro Tea for Intelligentsia
When visiting Chicago for the first time last year, I of course had Intelligenstia Coffee as a must-go destination. Sure, they’ve got a super spiffy space in Venice (LA) now, but Intelligentsia originally hails from Chi-town, so I wanted to make sure to stop by. This is when I discovered
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February 16, 2011
Packaging Whore: Kitaro One-Cup Sake
I regretfully report that Anders, aka Skankynavia and Packaging Whore columnist, is on sabbatical for the next few weeks, and will be returning in mid-March. Sorry, Martians! I know you all adore his posts, but our resident SkankMaster will be hibernating for the rest of the winter. It’s chilly up there in SkankyLand.
I’ll be filling
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February 9, 2011
Packaging Whore: Kawaii Eats
The kawaii (= cute) world of Japan is a very positive dimension of happiness, beauty, bunnies, rainbows and ribbons. And not just something that contains characters, but also an aesthetic approach that appeals to your heart, with a rather feminine touch and usually a soft design that makes you go, “Awwwww, that’s so CUUUTE”. Girls
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February 2, 2011
Packaging Whore: Suppon Soup in a Can
My pal Washi just got back from Japan and brought me an entire BAG full of fun omiyage (gifts)! Little booties from Muji, a pack of Nagoya-style miso udon, and a can of… kan kohi (canned coffee)?
I read it aloud, “ゴールド すっぽん スープ” aka Gold Suppon Soup.
“Turtle,” Washi translated.
Turtle soup? IN
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December 22, 2010
Packaging Whore: Faggy Foods (The XXXmas Edition)
PREFACE Packaging Whore: Faggy Foods (by Anders)
I’ve been a serious holiday downer this year. Even though I really do not care for religion, ya’ll know I adore Jesus, and I have done nothing to celebrate the day of his birth thus far. No gifts, no cards, no love. Shame on me!
Anders
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November 17, 2010
Packaging Whore: Faggy Foods
They’re all around you, The Fags. With their pastel-coloured yachts and pink-powered investment banker dating services. They’re also best friends with Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow, giving them advice on what to wear and whom to date (they also advise Cher on her live show outfits, but we don’t talk
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September 30, 2010
Packaging Whore: Agnes Cupcakes (CPH)
A cupcake is like generic sex.
Looks like an ok fun party from the outside, but when you dig in, it’s dull, sticky and in the end it just makes you wanna throw up.
Right now, you’re probably thinking “Oh no, not another cupcake post. Weren’t cupcakes something that belonged to
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August 25, 2010
Packaging Whore: Toxic Terror!
I sometimes wonder whether my generation (of 1979) will explode in a green toxic waste cloud when we turn 40.
Raised throughout the 1980′s on a chemical food diet consisting of added preservatives, taste perfumes and E-numbers galore, our bodies have grown up in dirty soil and now there’s no way back (check the
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August 6, 2010
Packaging Whore: Lamill Coffee (LA)
Lamill Coffee in Silverlake, LA impressed me because it looked good. They package their coffee beans in tins (made in the USA) that are retro looking and all the staff wear matching t-shirts. Yes, call me superficial – but ever since leaving Tokyo, I have to admit I miss the
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