Design Respeck! (Part 5: Lunchroom Edition)

Here's another edition of "Design Respeck!" for you guys. I wanted to bring this one back to the lunchroom days for all the kids who brown-bagged their eats from home. Om nom nom. I'm waiting for someone to come up with a really sweet update of the brown bag though. As timeless and cool as the brown bag is and will always be (Power Rangers lunchbox just can't cut it 24/7), it needs a refresher...time to put on the creative cap. Anyway, enjoy!

ASDA Lunchboxes

You know what I always hated? Looking at those vending machine sandwiches in their sad-looking hard plastic containers...or worse...their 7-11 cousins in their unmistakably unsterile saran wrap digs. Thank goodness for creativity. Not only does it manage to be functional packaging, but it manages to look good while doing it...inside and out. It is some seriously cool stuff to take to the lunch room.

"Considering structure, graphics and materials I created a set of three lunchboxes for ASDA, the brief asked for them to be seperate solutions, however still maintain a strong visual idenity throughtout the collection. The lunchboxes cover three distinctive ranges, healthy, satisying and childrens. This project won a D&AD Yellow Pencil for Packaging Design (Silver)." - Emma Smart (designer)

Via Idealist

Giant Gummi Bear (on a stick)

I don't know about you, but I know that I've been waiting for the Gummi Bear to catch up to these supersized times. American gluttony aside, these giant bears of sugary deliciousness would make a perfect Pixar movie marathon companion and show up all the other kids at recess with those puny, normal sized bears. Who's cool now? And at $10 a pop, it's a pretty sweet bargain. Here are some specs:

* 4" tall (not including stick)
* It's on a stick
* Choose from 3 flavors: red cherry, blue raspberry, and green apple
* Weighs 1/2 pound
* Equivalent of 88 regular Gummy Bears

Via Vat 19

Fruit Juice Packaging by Naoto Fukasawa




Although I only posted up the banana and strawberry variants, you have to check out the kiwi packaging. So much cooler than "Juicy Juice".

Japanese industrial designer Naoto Fukasawa has created a series of creative fruit juice packages that have the look and feel of the fruit they contain.

“I imagined that if the surface of the package imitated the colour and texture of the fruit skin, then the object would reproduce the feeling of the real skin.”

Via Toxel