Japanese Packaging Design#2: Snack Characters

9 Feb 2007 Category: Features, Graphics, Illustration, Japan, Recommended, Top Page 10

Japanese Packaging Design#2: Snack Characters

Two lip-sticked seal-panda babes swimming through the seas of dried noodles while having a drink...

Isn’t it wonderful to live in a country where drunken panda-seals lounge on peanut snack packages sniffing beer? Well, not all Japanese packaging is that weird, but see for yourself. Here is PingMag’s Best of Snack Characters. Enjoy!

WARNING: TONS OF IMAGES TO COME

Written by Uleshka

After exploring Strawberry Sweets’ packages in our Japanese Packaging#1 article, we will entirely focus on “packages with a face” today.

Amazingly cute milk bread for children. This one doesn’t actually taste like crab, but since its crab shape makes it easy to take little bites, this is a hit on the shelves of the convenient stores.

Puffy Chips

Caramel Corn

A classic package among the crunchy snacks is definitely Caramel Corn by sweets maker Tohato. Not only is this open-mouth-caramel-corn-face drop dead funny, the taste of these tiny curly flips also causes an immediate addiction (Seriously! Once you open a pack it is definitely impossible to stop until they are all gone!).


Original Caramel Corn package with a mouth full of corn flips. Try for yourself and see that you can’t avoid ending up like that character and keep stuffing as many of these nasty sweets in your mouth as possible! Dangerously addictive!!!

His girl-friend, the cute strawberry milk variation flirting hard!

The other nice thing about Caramel Corn is that it comes in different flavors always causing another cute new face to existence. It is even so popular that other companies tried to copy the look and… failed!!


roasted almonds Caramel Corn

Kuma-Kyara (bear caramel) obviously copying the look of Tohato

And it wouldn’t be Japan, if they wouldn’t come up with a seasonal variation for every little event. There was a cute one for Christmas, now there is the Daruma for the beginning of the year.


Daruma Canael Corn - no, this is not a spelling mistake!

Milk Caramel flavor variation of the Daruma Canael Corn

This traditional Daruma wish doll works like that: make a wish and draw in his left eye, wait until the wish comes true and then pencil in his other eye. Well, the Caramel Corn already has one eye, so you can use the side panel of the package to actually write down your wish:


Caramel Corn’s original side panel on the left and Canael Corn’s blank space to write down your wish on the right

Once your wish is fulfilled, you can draw in the other eye… in case you didn’t throw away your flip package already…

So why is this one called Canael Corn instead of Caramel Corn then? Because **Japanese loooooove word plays and “canaelu” means to wish and make it happen. Bingo!**

Uka-ru chips


Curry flavored Uka-ru chips to make sure you pass your hard university exams…

…and another friendly little helper in the corner of the package!

Now again a seasonal thing: Uka-ru chips! Uka-ru means to enter and in this sense means to enter university or to pass a test. So!? It is this time of the year when all Japanese students have to study really hard to pass - and they usually go to the temple to pray to make sure they really do! In case you can’t be bothered running all the way to pray for yourself, maybe buying this priest on the package and crumbling lots of Uka-ru chips on your books does the trick as well… No guarantee though!

Catch-me chips


strange shadowhand character on the package catching potato rings (consommé flavor)

Oops! Didn’t catch any yet! These ones have a special salty flavor.

These potato chips in ring form keep changing their name, but what they all have in common are word plays - again! - based around the kids’ game of throwing and catching rings.

Nova

What is this??? The Nova bunny conquering different kinds of sweets?

Here we have an interesting one!
English Language school Nova made a clever move by applying the old concept of learning + pleasure = good memory! By teaming up with big time choco producer Glico, people can now learn English while indulging in chocolate heavens…


Nova rabbit on Gaba chocolate asking you to visit their website

Heavy Nova branding campaign on Pocky chocolate…

But I wonder! What is this pink bunny doing to poor Japanese citizens who actually don’t want to learn English!?? Just imagine that ‘English’ was your most hated subject at school and now your favorite chocolate forces you to realize, that you still don’t know how to “Take the bull by the horns”!

Pocky packages inside - cute English lessons on the go… But really, who wants to learn English constantly?

The forced on Learning English market is a really strange situation here in Japan… Although people study so hard at school, the fact that they have almost zero opportunity to actually ’speak’ English (at school and in real life) causes a big shyness and English panic. This however creates a comfortable niche for tons of English schools to ask outrageous prices for a little bit of ’speaking time’.

I wonder who decides what kind of phrases are picked for these packages… I’m glad they didn’t chose Learning for Life! - that would really depress me!

Famous Characters

Here we are in our little Famous Characters category. The trick always works (not only for kids…).

All kids love Doraemon


Everyone’s favorite Doraemon on the top of a choco snack box.

Doraemon pack from the side

Shocking green Crayon Shin-chan


Crayon Shin-chan making a silly face on Choco-Bi’s sweet packs

bright green side view

Comic writer Yoshito Usui’s character Crayon Shin-chan has made it onto a bright green Choco-Bi snack (also by manufacturer Tohato).

Heidi of the Alps with Cheese


Heidi of the Alps on a cheese noodle snack

Heidi on a crumble-cheese-cake-bread

I must make a confession here! When I was a kid growing up in Germany, I thought everything around me that was in German was German (including Tom&Jerry). Since the story of Heidi takes place in Germany at least to some extend, everything in and around the Heidi story was naturally totally German without question. Therefore Heidi of the Alps had to be German, too. I very much liked it as a kid but couldn’t quite figure out why the eyes were always so big…?

After I started living here in Japan I wondered why everybody knew the story so well…

Thomas the Tank Engine - Ramune


Thomas the Tank Engine on a pack for Ramune

looking at the package this way, it almost could be the head of a train driving towards you

More Ramune


very cute little ramune bottle character

…and an even cuter little bunny drinking ramune with a straw

Ramune is a drink known in Japan mostly for its distinctive bottle design. Like in most of the countries there is some sort of local drink that is simply sweet and carbonated (think Sprite) or - Ramune counts as the Japanese version of it.

Nostalgic Package Characters


Umai-bo in many different flavors

Ichigo-tsumi

Umai-bo - some salty snack that comes in many different flavors - would certainly be among the top 5 memorable kids’ sweets in Japan. The characters you see on this package are also very famous - but merely designed for this product only.

Ichigo-tsumi - was some kind of special kids sweet, something you don’t get everyday. Ryoko told me that she absolutely loved it as a kid because it was sooo cute and its title (meaning “picking strawberries”) made her feel special when picking one by one from this more than cute package.

Milky

classic character Peco-chan on Milky milk candy

Peco-chan, the character representing the major confectioner Fujiya Company, was already born in 1950. For years she was smiling in life-size around sweets shops in Japan, but recently a huge scandal about Fujiya using expired milk to make some 15,000 cream puffs forced Peco-chan to hide…

Along with that people discovered a few “older” food poisoning cases which oops! Fujita failed to report and, well… I suppose from now on poor Peco-chan has to pay the high price for Fujita’s slack quality control.

Choco Ball

Choco-Ball Strawberry taste on the left and Choco-Ball original chocolate-peanut taste on the right. A nice example to show that changing colors can be enough to explain a different taste!

Bisco


Bisco, the baby cookie. The original package used to be red.

Bisco’s illustration on the back of the package.

The case of Bisco’s package design reminds me a bit of Kinderschokolade, the evergreen in German kids’ chocolate history. They also had a design with a little boy on it and didn’t change it for - forever!

One day, however, some stupid marketing guy must have come along and talked them into something like: “This design is totally outdated! Unbelievable that we haven’t changed it for years! Quick, quick let’s ask a cheap designer to come up with a new solution which now everybody hates…!” Well, I guess he didn’t quite say that, but that is basically what happened. There even is a website where people keep protesting and demand that the “old” boy comes back on the package. They have already collected over 500 Euros and well… they must really hate the new kid!

Look at Bisco, marketing men and designers of this current world! They changed their little man slooowly over the years, that all my other editors believed that this package has never ever changed at all - until they saw this website!

Kid’s snacks

Koala no Ma-chi - this is actually a product that is famous in many countries

I remember that a guy at school called Ralf sometimes had these Koala bear cookies and never gave me any, because they were so expensive in Germany. I wish I could have impressed him by telling him this secret: some of these tiny Koalas actually have wrinkles on their forehead from playing the trumpet (!) - and if you find one of these rare ones, it will be your lucky day!

I don’t think that anyone outside Japan who munches away Koalas carelessly knows that. But although I never got any cookies from Ralf, I still have lots of lucky days in my life! The luckiest days are, when my dear editors find geeky blogs for me where people seriously discuss eyebrows and wrinkles printed on chocolate cookies…

Tabekko Doubutsu

Tabekko Doubutsu - animals you can eat

…and learning English again. Poor kids!

Tabekko Doubutsu is actually regarded as a very healthy snack for kids (according to star editor Chiemi): “They won an award because their snack contains a lot of vitamins or calcium or something…!”

Amazing: although they won this award in 1979, they are not ashamed to print it on the package in 2007.

Ichigo Milk


everyone’s favorite Ichigo-Miruku - Strawberry Milk candy

a new version of Ichigo Miruku

If you are a fan of the over-cutesy-cute Ichigo-Miruku candy package, you might be interested to know, that there is also a slick and cool design variation of the same product. Based on a Japanese word play (Yawn! Word play again!??) it uses the numbers 1-ichi 5-go 3-mi 6-ru 9-ku to explain what might be hiding in this bright red bag.

Manga Characters to collect

If all of this is too cute for you, try some of these:

Dragonball chocolate wafers with cards to collect

Shinrabansho chocolate also provides cards for kids to gamble!

Savory Snacks

Here we come to our last and my favorite section. Favorite because it contains many kinds of snacks that would be considered ‘highly weird’ in the West and that are absolutely normal here.

‘Baby Star’ tiny dried Ramen noodles as a popular snack

‘Baby Star’s’ characters are really famous, too. Well, famous in the ’snack world’ which is enough for people to know and love them over here. (Go and ask someone about ‘Baby Star and his friends’ and I am sure they can tell you at least ‘one’ funny story of him, who lives happily on supermarket shelves.)

Yo-chan squid snacks

That actually reminds me of another story: back in the days in London…

I went to the FlashForward conference at Hoxton Square - or at least to one of these flashy conferences where Joshua Davis) was speaking. He talked about the two big mysteries in my life at that time: Flash and Japan.

What he said - essentially - was that he doesn’t have a clue about anything he is doing, he is just doing it and then finds out what actually happened - afterwards. That was his kind of experimental strategy.

That is why he found himself buying a - what he thought - “chocolate bar” in a Japanese convenient store once, discovering that what he was actually biting into was “something fish”! He bought another one - “fish” again. And another one - and “fish” again. And so on, and so on.

Great story! And at that time, it really made me want to go to Japan even more. The giant challenge of not being able to tell chocolate from fish pretty much made me buy my airplane ticket straight away.

Also from Yo-chan is this marvellous packaging with a punk screaming ‘TaraTara (wordplay on the fish called Tara)- shiten jya nee yo!’ at his audience which means something like ‘Don’t be lazy!’ Isn’t that just amazing! I also like the ‘ethnic taste’ written above his shoe. Please notice the guy in the audience with the sunglasses - Ah! This design is simply hot!

Today I wonder, though: how could Joshua Davis be so much out of his mind to really mistake “fish” for chocolate??? I mean - does this really look like chocolate??

Tsudako-san octopus snack

Well, well! I certainly don’t want to insult poor Joshua here! Maybe he just had one of these thinking they were candy…

super-sour-crunchy Ume, the pickled Japanese plum

pickled Ume-plum visible from the back

But still, come on! Just look at it!

Kaniko - crab babies covered with a spicy topping. To be honest, those smelled terrible…

Well, but what can I say? I still thank Joshua deeply for his story! Who knows? Maybe I would have never moved to Japan without him!

Squid bars showing in a transparent window

I like the shapes of this abstract squid ‘kim-chi taste’ - almost erotic…

If you want to see more package designs, visit our Flickr gallery and have a sunny day!

117 Comments

  1. fun to look, fun to eat and more fun when finding the tiny secret of each one.

    Posted by: curiouspig on February 9th, 2007 at 10:41 pm

  2. I find it fascinating that people are so interested in these different packages. Of course, snacks that I’m used to (in the USA) must seem weird to people who didn’t grow up with them. It would be cool to maybe do a comparison of Japanese vs. Euro or N. American packaging - highlight some culture trends!

    Posted by: Nathan on February 9th, 2007 at 11:27 pm

  3. I love this! It would be nice to see a few examples from each country. Everything from hand made packaging to mass produced.

    Posted by: Ragnheidur on February 9th, 2007 at 11:38 pm

  4. This is a Malaysian brand, Woof Woof dogfood I designed

    Posted by: Woof Woof Dogfood on February 9th, 2007 at 11:56 pm

  5. Same company, catfood

    Posted by: Meow Meow Catfood on February 9th, 2007 at 11:58 pm

  6. The Baby Star is one of my favorite snack :-)

    Posted by: Kuswanto on February 10th, 2007 at 12:20 am

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  8. octopus snack? crab babies? sounds… interessting.
    i’ll go for plum candy (the one with the hippopotamus on it) or dried Ramen noodles. jammi

    Posted by: punktpunktpunkt on February 10th, 2007 at 1:48 am

  9. The snacks are little pieces of a surrialist world. Each carrying the possibility of finding the wizard of Oz on a bite! From where I am (Argentina) this is really something strange to see at the supermarket.

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    Posted by: aaron on February 10th, 2007 at 4:01 pm

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  13. UK packaging is so boring.

    Posted by: Badger on February 10th, 2007 at 8:55 pm

  14. I had “コアラのマーチ” for almost everyday during my years in Junior High & High School!

    Posted by: Ben on February 11th, 2007 at 2:35 am

  15. The Kimchi squid, while having inovative package design, is vile!!!!!

    Posted by: Craig on February 11th, 2007 at 10:21 am

  16. Great article, great packages.

    Posted by: Robert on February 11th, 2007 at 10:32 am

  17. Back in the old days, there was guy named Tim Ernst would had a one-frame comic in the Japan Times called The Gaijin. One I particularly remember is a guy gleefully about to take a big bite out of a piece of bread spread with…”It Looked Like Peanut Butter”…miso! It was so funny because when I first went to a Japanese supermarket in 1987, I thought, Wow, surely that can’t be peanut butter?

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    Posted by: Bri_Fari on February 12th, 2007 at 5:49 am

  23. All of them are my favorite!! Tohato, baby star, Uka-ru chips, Mikly, Choco-Ball(I love the caramel taste!!)Most of them can still buy in Hong Kong.
    I love japanese snacks because of their taste and funny packaging!!

    Posted by: Bamboo on February 12th, 2007 at 11:32 am

  24. damn i remember eating the very first thing there on top. they arent too good, but still kinda addicting i dunno why…

    Posted by: lil jay on February 12th, 2007 at 9:13 pm

  25. Crab Brains are sooo delicious.

    Posted by: KAIS on February 12th, 2007 at 10:39 pm

  26. This is a great article! I’m actually taking a package design class right now in college and it’s interesting to see the different styles of packaging the products have : ) They’re really cute and look yummy…

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  29. Hey, I like those tiny crab snacks!

    Posted by: Lisa on February 13th, 2007 at 8:30 am

  30. I’m loving all these sweetieee packages snacks since a little girl. Goodness…eating them will feel real pampered and sure be inspired by the drawings. Way to go! ;-)

    Posted by: nico on February 13th, 2007 at 12:12 pm

  31. milky chan!!!!! ^-^

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    All the colorful packaging really helps people look around their environment more.

    the only thing that bugs me is that Asian packaging, in general, seem to use a lotttt more plastic. (Each piece of food/snack is wrapped indivudually).

    Not very environmentally friendly. =’(

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  76. still addicted to japanese candy design! can’t help it eating the candy also!

    Posted by: nororu on April 30th, 2007 at 8:51 am

  77. OOOHHHH !!! Salven los Dioses a los Japoneses y sus snacks ( sus diseños de packs y los contenidos sobre todas las cosas ).
    Sugerencia de placer instantáneo:
    *tomar mate argentino con algún snack japonés de sabores tipo cangejo , camarón , pulp o algo asi……mmmhhhhh ! (el mate amargo por supuesto !)

    Posted by: Mariano on April 30th, 2007 at 8:30 pm

  78. hi uleshka,
    sorry for the late reply.
    i very much enjoyed your insight in this fascinating matter…
    just finished an exhibition in holland were i worked with material from this field. please send me your postal address (you’ll find my email on my site) and i will send you a poster.
    ciao!
    harmen

    Posted by: Harmen Liemburg on May 4th, 2007 at 12:04 pm

  79. nice food.We also give nice things.
    Come and see

    Posted by: house-of-fun.nl on May 8th, 2007 at 7:23 am

  80. Such a pity to have to throw or recycle the nice wrappers and boxes after eating what’s inside…if only they can be eaten as well. :-)

    Posted by: Clara on May 10th, 2007 at 7:55 pm

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  82. [...] Japanese Packaging Design#2: Snack Characters [...]

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  83. i’m crying tears tears of joy

    Posted by: dean on May 21st, 2007 at 7:39 pm

  84. [...] En PingMag se recoge un artículo acerca del packaging japonés de las golosinas. Son las ilustraciones de [...]

    Posted by: Packaging japonés. « ddsign on June 3rd, 2007 at 12:37 am

  85. [...] - Paquetes raros - En el link que les dejo a continuación hay una galeria de envases de comida japonesa realmente extraña, es sumamente simpatica pero no te abren el apetito ni un poquito. [...]

    Posted by: La salvación cuando uno no sabe que hacer… » Links 04/06/07 on June 4th, 2007 at 7:45 pm

  86. [...] Japanese Packaging Design#2: Snack Characters Bright and colorful package design from Japanese snack foods (tags: japan packaging food illustration kawaii advertisement graphics design) [...]

    Posted by: brent ozaeta » links for 2007-06-20 on June 21st, 2007 at 5:44 am

  87. [...] few other websites featuring Japanese package design include: http://www.pingmag.jp - article and images of Japanese snack packaging http://www.jasonzada.com - turn your sound down on this [...]

    Posted by: Graphic Design Blog » Japanese Package Design on July 10th, 2007 at 5:05 pm

  88. i have to go and visit tokiooo

    :D

    Posted by: apfel z on July 25th, 2007 at 4:26 pm

  89. [...] gráfico sobre packaging japonés, en la industria de los alimentos, está disponible en el sitio PingMag. Lamentablemente sólo está en inglés o japonés. Aquí intentamos resumir algunas de las [...]

    Posted by: Anepco - Blog Packaging » Blog Archive » Packaging japonés de golosinas on August 2nd, 2007 at 8:24 am

  90. what a fun article/photospread! I’ve always enjoyed the packaging on different Japanese and asian snacks in general. Lately I’ve been going to the asian market pretty frequently and I was trying to figure out what got me started. I realized it was because of the packaging (!) I know it sounds quite silly but when I was younger I was really in to making creative collages on notebooks, etc. The bright, colorful packaging had a magnetic effect on my eyes- I even bought food I couldn’t stand for the wrappers (garlic peanuts never did grown on me)!

    Posted by: shinjiG on August 9th, 2007 at 4:23 am

  91. [...] Make sure to read the posting at Pingmag for more Snack Character madness. [...]

    Posted by: Japanese Snack Characters | Wacky Japanese Stuff on August 29th, 2007 at 5:29 pm

  92. [...] PingMag最新一篇精彩的文章，介绍日本的包装设计，Japanese Packaging Design #3: Gifted With Beauty，之前的1和2（分别讲草莓和点心包装上的卡通形象）。我们这篇文章的标题是直译，Gifted With Beauty应该有双关的意思吧。 [...]

    Posted by: 日本包装设计，天生之美 · [ i D | 公 社 ] on September 3rd, 2007 at 2:53 am

  93. on http://www.takuhai.nl you can buy all of that food

    Posted by: martina on September 20th, 2007 at 10:41 pm

  94. ping off

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  96. I absolutly LOVE japanese packages, they are so cute and silly but you get so addicted to it xD and the food inside is even better, not as sweet as american candies but still so tasty. I’d take ramune over pepsi any day <3

    Posted by: Anonymous on December 5th, 2007 at 5:14 am

  97. I absolutly LOVE japanese packages, they are so cute and silly but you get so addicted to it xD and the food inside is even better, not as sweet as american candies but still so tasty. I’d take ramune over pepsi any day <3

    Posted by: bunny on December 5th, 2007 at 5:14 am

  98. [...] siempre he sentido una predilección especial por el packaging japonés. Solamente con la paleta de colores que utilizan te vuelven loco, pero a eso le sumas las formas y [...]

    Posted by: Influencias « intemperie on January 4th, 2008 at 9:23 pm

  99. [...] http://www.pingmag.jp/2007/02/09/snackcharacters/ [...]

    Posted by: Japanese Snacks | 2Grafik on February 21st, 2008 at 3:18 pm

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  101. [...] 日本包装设计–零食类吉祥物 [...]

    Posted by: rsiii.瑞升设计 » 本月书签 on February 29th, 2008 at 4:08 am

  102. [...] has several different collections of Japanese packaging, including Cardboard Box Designs, Snack Characters, and Gifted with [...]

    Posted by: Offline Sources for Design Inspiration | Vandelay Website Design on March 11th, 2008 at 9:38 am

  103. [...] has several different collections of Japanese packaging, including Cardboard Box Designs, Snack Characters, and Gifted with [...]

    Posted by: Offline Sources for Design Inspiration - Best Resource for News & Articles on March 19th, 2008 at 1:23 pm

  104. [...] has several different collections of Japanese packaging, including Cardboard Box Designs, Snack Characters, and Gifted with [...]

    Posted by: Offline Sources for Design Inspiration on March 20th, 2008 at 6:23 pm

  105. [...] via http://pingmag.jp/2007/02/09/snackcharacters/ [...]

    Posted by: leonardo.the-bloop.com » Blog Archive » PingMag - The Tokyo-based magazine about “Design and Making Things” » Archive » Japanese Packaging Design#2: Snack Characters on May 9th, 2008 at 6:45 am

  106. [...] 在Pingmag上看到的这些可爱的包装，选了一些我觉得特别可爱的发到这里，我只认识腊笔小新和多拉A梦。 [...]

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  107. [...] Pingmag Share and [...]

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  108. I love pocky’s approach not only is it so good that the little pink guy can not control his / her tears but there’s also a ‘mens’ version… awesome

    Posted by: Graeme Benstead on September 2nd, 2008 at 10:21 pm

  109. [...] Som noen kanskje har fått med seg fra før, japansk snacks er noe helt for seg selv. Denne sida her tar ikke for seg innholdet, men innpakningene! Fantatisk flotte og fantastisk sære, jeg mener, [...]

    Posted by: Japansk snacks! « Link-helvete on October 20th, 2008 at 8:20 pm

  110. [...] 3, 2008 · No Comments PingMag has a nice (and long) article on character design on Japanese [...]

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  111. [...] 16, 2009 · No Comments PingMag has a nice (and long) article on character design on Japanese [...]

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  112. [...] Snack Characters It’s really a shame to see PingMag went into hiatus at the end of 2008, but like many other avid reader of its blog, the quality of the content are really top notch and you will really appreciate every single bits of effort poured into its articles. Though it might not be talking about the greatest design in the world, but what makes it really special read is the content that focused in sharing what is so unique about the Japanese culture, the insights and some of the history. [...]

    Posted by: [Inspiration] “Life”ly articles « ManMeng’s Lifepad on May 17th, 2009 at 9:29 pm

  113. [...] Reminds daddy of some sweets packaging where his smug face would be stuck to the side of the container. A bit like this: [...]

    Posted by: Josiah Thong Day 26 – Family Portraits « Scott and Anne Thong’s Family Blog on August 8th, 2009 at 10:43 pm

  114. [...] few other websites featuring Japanese package design include: http://www.pingmag.jp – article and images of Japanese snack packaging http://www.jasonzada.com – turn your sound [...]

    Posted by: » Blog Archive » Japanese Packaging Design on September 12th, 2009 at 12:51 am

  115. [...] immersed in a city where quirky is cool and everything can be turned into cartoon characters. This awesome packaging of tiny baby crabs with a spicy topping may be a little literal, but it’s more fun that [...]

    Posted by: Baby crab packaging - New Food and Packaging | Lost At E Minor: For creative people on September 30th, 2009 at 9:43 pm

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