TheDieline.com: Package Design

Packaging For Snails, Made From Snail Poop.

 

 Yes, you read that right. This packaging was made out of dyed snail excrements, and it is designed to hold cooked snails. Thats a little strange right? Here is what product designer Manuel Jouvin has to say about it:

"During my researches, I pointed out that colored paper has an influence on color snail excrements. In partnership with Sylvie Pierru, a snailfarmer in Picardie (France), we created packagings made of snail excrements and destinated to cooked snails. They are envisaged in the molding cellulose process by replacing recyclable paper by snail dejections."

More images of this, um, interesting project, and the process, after the jump.

Archer Farms Simply Balanced

Target's Archer Farms launches "Simply Balanced", a new line of healthy and affordable food.

"Archer Farms Simply Balanced, an extension of the premium Archer Farms food collection, takes the guesswork out of eating right.  By providing better-for-you, high-quality options that taste great, Archer Farms Simply Balanced helps families make better choices about the food they eat.  Archer Farms Simply Balanced includes more than 70 products, such as pasta, cereal, bread, crackers, granola bars and frozen pizza."

The original Archer Farms packaging was designed by Michael Osborne Design, and Target's design team has taken over from there. More images of the new line after the jump.

Beyond Chocolate

"Beyond Chocolate, Embrace created the design and structure for a new brand of chocolate truffles launching in Waitrose on Monday which was nothing more than a recipe just 12 weeks ago. Chef and social entrepreneur Simon Boyle secured the nationwide deal with Waitrose in the same month his company Beyond Chocolate was registered. 

Beyond Chocolate is a range of unique truffles handmade to Simons original recipe and method.  These luxury chocolate truffles help people who have experienced homelessness by funding work experience, training and job opportunities."

Designed and sent in by Embrace Brands, a London based firm.

1854's Limon

 

"Our studio has just designed the Lemon powder packaging for 1854`s new product.

We were asked to make 3 presentations: Lemon powder, Lemon powder and pepper, Lemon powder and salt.

As the product is new in the market we developed an eye catching special illustrated display for each item, changing only the color schemes according to the content."

Designed and sent in by Estudio Clara Ezcurra, a small graphic design studio from Argentina.

Frantz & Ivy

Frantz & Ivy is a new family bakery, with identity and packaging designed by Fay K. Pal.

The story of the Frantz & Ivy brand is one of seemingly unconnected personalities coming together. Juxtaposition, if you will.

Frantz is French, Ivy is British. She is an independent feminist who likes yoga, surrealistic art, and admires Frida Kahlo. He is a phenomenal confectioner and he likes — well, most of all he likes Ivy. Not exactly a normal conventional matchmaking, but somehow it works and love is in the air.  [...] Same way their cookies and cakes are. ...

This duality is manifested in the brand identity — straight-laced typography partnered with whimsical illustrations. Frantz and & Ivy are depicted a quirky cartoon couple, transforming the owners into brand mascots. The clean black-and-white feel uses CMYK (and occasionally, brown) to identify certain products, and to bring in a bit of color, of course.

Check out more examples of the bakery's packaging and branded materials after the jump.

Cadbury Dairy Milk

Designed by Pearlfisher

"Creation of a global iconic brand identity design for Cadbury Dairy Milk with sub-brand rejuvenation and innovation."

Studio Spotlight: Moxie Sozo

 

 

 

 

 

  

We feature Moxie Sozo's work from time to time, so you've probably seen some of these projects before. Nevertheless, we thought we'd pull together an official studio spotlight and show them off altogether, plus some that we haven't featured before.

See lots more after the jump.

Bloomsberry & Co Biscuits

    

"Bloomsberry & Co to grow their companies product range they decided to introduce Bloomsberry biscuits into the UK market. They were after fresh approach to the ordinary English biscuits that people in the UK keep in their top drawers. Part of the Bloomsberry brand idea is that the packaging design and humor is more important than the biscuits, they take it for granted that their biscuits are high-end quality products. Here's what Out of blue came up with to establish that important dialogue with the consumers."

Via Packaging UQAM