McDonald’s has redesigned its packaging to be rolled out worldwide. The brand design agency Boxer (UK and Chicago based) has designed the new packaging for McDonald’s takeout bags and fountain beverage cups. The new packaging also features QR codes as part of the design giving customers easy access to information from the ease of their mobile phones. Paul […]
More than 15 emerging artists transformed Divisadero Street (between Hayes and Grove) into a public interactive art exhibit as part of Absolute’s Open Canvas initiative. From coast to coast, Absolute is inspiring creative risk-taking by collaborating with, and empowering, local artists to transform entire street blocks into art pieces. The initiative first launched in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, […]
‘Conflict Kitchen’ is a one-of-a-kind restaurant in Pittsburgh that only serves food from countries that the US is in conflict with. According to its website, the restaurant will change its menu and identity every few months, depending on “current geopolitical events”. Open seven days a week, Conflict Kitchen “uses the social relations of food and […]
Belgium has long claimed that its frites are the first and the best; now it is boasting a world food-vending first – a coin-operated dispenser that produces hot chips using beef fat. Although chips are already sold this way in other countries, the machine outside a supermarket in Brussels adopts the gold-standard animal dripping, as […]
To launch the new Coca-Cola Mini bottle in Israel, Gefen Team decided to introduce it to consumers using someone they are very familiar with… themselves. The team created 3D printed mini figurines of consumers – their own little doll, which looks exactly like them, only in mini. Using the latest in 360° scanning and 3D […]
Ryan Lochte is one of the most iconic American competitive swimmers of all time, and today he brought his swim-tastic technique to the delicious world of Combos baked snacks. Armed with a waterproof pizza-delivery bag full of Pizzeria Pretzel Combos, Lochte leapt from a moving watercraft into the Hudson River, swim-delivering the crunchy snacks to […]
To ensure that you would not have to miss out on your daily dose of good coffee on your travels, Stumptown Coffee has teamed up with outdoor gear-maker Poler to create a handy coffee kit that lets you make a good cuppa on-the-go. Consisting of a couple of enamel mugs, AuroPress coffee maker and a […]
Mountain Dew launched ‘Portraits.’ Featuring DEW family all-stars including race car driver Dale Earnhardt Jr., pro snowboarder Danny Davis and pro skateboarder Paul Rodriguez, the visually arresting ads are moving portraits that leverage trending technology to showcase some of the most unique and defining aspects of each individuals’ life. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcWnfduAS_E&feature=youtu.be “Mountain Dew has always been […]
To celebrate National Ice Cream Month this summer, Philadelphia-based independent publisher Quirk Books imagined what it would be like if the worlds of books and ice cream collided. The tasty hybrids features books such as ‘Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets’, ‘Clockwork Orange’, ‘War and Peace’, and ‘World War Z’—as ice cream flavors like […]
If you thought weird weather that dispensed food only belonged to the fictional world—like in the animated film ‘Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs’—think again. London-based avant-garde baker and creative director of ‘Eat Your Heart Out’, that previously created an edible hotel made of cake, Miss Cakehead created “ice cream snow”. The crazy weather that […]