Sweet Packaging

While I was in Boston I got found some interesting sweet packaging. The best has to be the Lighting Bugs Gummy Candy, which light up when you pick them up the the plastic chopsticks. I found these it a shop dedicated to sweets, unfortunately I was not allowed to take photographs of inside the shop. As it was Easter there was a Easter Bunny version of the Lighting Bugs.

I picked up the Lobster Bait taffy during my stop over at Halifax. The packaging and illustration is interesting in particular as the Lobster seems to be looking forward to being eaten. I also picked up a pack of lobster gummy candy. It is very odd that so much of the food advertising in particular sweets seem to have the producing enjoying the idea that it is there to be eaten. Very much like the character in Douglas Adams's The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. I happen to find the website Suicide Food which has lots of examples of advertising and product placements that play on the anthropomorphic nature of food advertising. There is such as mixture from funny to the disturbed perhaps the most disturbed is an advertisement for a French sausage, just scroll through the archive pages on the site and you will find it.
On a more lighter note, I just liked this one for the design of the characters there seems to be a lot of products with the Wonka logo but still no sign of the chocolate bars with the Golden Ticket. I wonder what Dahl would have thought of these perhaps a bit let down in the same way that the sweets based on those in the Harry Potter novels just don't live up to expectation. Certainly there would be some problems with the ethical issue of a live chocolate frog.

More Animation Exhibtition Photographs

Puppets from Tim Burton's film Corpse Bride. Puppets and set from Pingu gives some idea of how many puppets are involved in the production of the series.