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December 31, 2008
German Chocolate Grenade
…and—(just so as not to end our war-time candy bar series on too much of a positive, uplifting note)—here’s a darker WWII chocolate bar to consider: the German chocolate hand-grenade…
from the UK Security Service/MI5 website
(Also, check out the earlier box vox post about hand-grenade packaging…)
Randy Ludacer
Beach Packaging Design
(A couple more examples of WWII explosives disguised as product packaging, after the fold…)
Left & middle: packages labeled, Surpastilles Vichy-Etat (throat lozenges) were mini fire bombs; on right: Henningsen’s frozen eggs package contained a hidden bomb
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Good post. Bloomsberry & Co. is an interesting company. Starting out as a small New Zealand based company (founded by “graphic designer Giles Barker and wife Vanessa Kettelwell, a trained cook”) they are now international with headquarters in Massachusetts. I remember briefly speaking with CEO Paul Pruett at Gift Fair last year. They’re one of those companies (and this may be a trend) that are turning the conventional idea of “consistent” branding on its head. Everything they do is creative and funny, but nothing matches. No easily recognizable brand identity. At least not in the visual sense. Maybe their branding is all tied together conceptually. (Maybe you’ve just shown us one of the threads!)
I love the bloomsberry chocolate bars, ever since i discovered them a few months ago, they’ve become a gift giving staple of mine. You should see the christmas themed wrappers. My favorite one was “Holidays Can Be Difficult Times, Relatively Speaking” accompanied by some graphics of an overbearing family.
It was perfect.
i like the his and hers one