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Buckyballs Packaging: Before & After

Maybe you’ve seen the YouTube videos of someone’s expert hands, artfully wrangling these magnetic ball bearings into different polyhedral arrangements. A fun crystal-structure teaching opportunity (and cool that it references Buckminster Fuller and fullerenes, AKA: buckyballs)

Zoomdoggle recently switched their packaging from a glass jar to a PVC box. (I met owner, Craig Zucker last August at Gift Fair and learned that the design of the new pack was handled in-house.)

(A Buckyballs display, after the fold...)

SPAM brand games (packaged in cans)

Last month at Toy Fair I noticed these licensed SPAM brand games at Haywire Group’s booth.

Interesting how being mocked by Monty Python —(Spamalot, et al.)— and becoming the generic term for junk email advertising has only served to make SPAM all the more beloved of a brand icon. (Judging from the official SPAM website, Hormel Foods gets this and is embracing their goofy cult status.)

Randy Ludacer
Beach Packaging Design