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July 5, 2010
Dynamite, Firecrackers, TNT
Top left: Johnny Cupcakes Firecracker T-Shirt (via: Lovely Package); top right: Mélanie Boucher’s dynamite shaped concept package for “sparkling chocolate powder” (via: Packaging Uqam); 2nd row, left: “Fudge Dynamite” (see also “Fudge Torture Tonic”); 3rd row, left: TNT Tea packaging from Cafe Grumpy (via: NotCot); on right: “Roasted Cocoa NIBS” from Askinosie Chocolate (via: Embody3D); 4th rwow, left & below right: Dynamite Bites; 5th row, left: Harry’s Firecracker Hot Sauce; on right; under NIBS: Black Rock Powder’s “Dynamite” fire starters crate (via: Cabala’s); 6th row, left: a vintage firecracker-shaped toy via ebay; on right dynamite-six-pack concept by Bonita Nowick; bottom photo of firecracker candy from Dawn Endico’s Flickr Photostream
Today is the 5th of July. I have a summer cold and didn’t sleep well due to late-night firecrackers in the neighborhood. (I am on edge and you do not want to set me off.)
We’ve looked at other ballistic packaging concepts—(hand-grenades; Molotov cocktails, etc.)—but this is supposedly of a more celebratory type. (Although dynamite and TNT are, perhaps, more fittingly associated with mining.)
(Some related examples, after the sputtering fuse…)
2008 Puma shoes via: HypeBeast
Pet explosives: cat toy on left—dog toys on right
(Related topic: The History of the Graphic Burst)
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