Highlighting smart, aesthetically-pleasing design in food packaging.
Packaging Whore
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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August 3, 2010
Packaging Whore: Mushroom Mountain and Beyond
I love food with personality. And I have the feeling it loves me back– especially in Japan.
Working as a character designer, I’m a junkie for Japanese packaging which more than usual sports a happy face, a friendly helper or just an enormous surplus of humour and fun which we boring, sad people
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July 16, 2010
Packaging Whore: The Salumi Cone @ Boccalone (SF)
Mortadella, prociutto cotto, and prociutto crudo slices… in a CONE.
This is how we’ll be eating meat in the future. How about steak (medium rare please!) in a cone? Hot dog in a cone? Slab bacon in a cone?
Hmmm… I think I’m onto something. This reminds me of…
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March 29, 2010
Packaging Whore: The Alembic Matchbook
Finally made it out to The Alembic, a bar on Haight Street in SF– it’s a spot that has been buzzed about extensively for their cocktails and gastroeats. I believe it is related to Magnolia, the brewpub right down
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January 14, 2010
Packaging Whore: Fish in a (Cake) Box
On New Year’s Eve in Japan, my mama came home with this box. This looks exactly like an Asian cake box, right? I thought, from the shape, this was probably a log cake or something.
Very celebratory color and pattern on the box. Must be something
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January 6, 2010
Packaging Whore: Vanilla Extract Throwback
Oh, you’re gonna love this. I was shuffling through the spicerack in my mama’s kitchen the other day, preparing to make my buttered bread pudding, when I finally found what I was looking for: vanilla extract.
Hmmm, I thought:
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December 15, 2009
Packaging Whore: Fool-Proof Pasta (Thx, JPN!)
Dear De Cecco, Barilla, and all other major pasta producers of the world: you should be ashamed of yourself, letting Japan come up with the smartest packaging for pasta EVER.
This one is “Mama” brand that my own mama Hideko picked up at
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December 9, 2009
Packaging Whore: Roman Honey
Look what Alice brought back for me all the way from glorious Roma– a huge glass jar of organic, orange-flavored honey!!! It’s so heckaheavy, she’s out of her mind for even thinking of lugging this back to SF in her luggage. Her
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December 1, 2009
Packaging Whore: Gone Bananas!
Trader Joe’s. Cupertino, CA. Do you see all the little silhouettes of monkeys everywhere? The whole thing is so cheesy, I couldn’t resist buying a box (only $1.99 for four bananas!).
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November 17, 2009
Packaging Whore: Pannikin Coffee & Tea (SD)
I saw the coffee cup and stopped dead in my tracks.
Best. Logo. Ever.
The colors! The font! The way the logo takes up the entire length of the cup! It’s all very 1970′s punk rock meets Communist
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