Final ant packaging

This is our final result of packaging ants, after five weeks of hard work. With the “myrknäcke” we created a clean box that you can have out in the kitchen or on your kitchen table. And with the raw ants we did a package inspired by flour bags so it will be easy to use…

Last week in the anthill

This week started with us doing our vernissage poster. It’s inspired by our dried ants packaging. We chose to make it that way so that people would feel a feeling of recognition when they come to the pitch and saw our actual packages. Baking the “myrknäcke” We also baked the crisp bread with ants. It…

Printing & testing in the Anthill

Redesigning Another week has gone by and we’ve got some work done. A few changes on the package structure for the crisp bread and a lot of changes on the graphic design on them both. We print, cut, fold, glue, fold some more, analyze and then the process starts all over again after a few…

Printing in the anthill

Hi again! This week we’ve continued to work on our package prototypes and the design for the packages. We’ve made two prototypes that we’re finally happy with after maybe twenty adjustments to the originals we came up with. Designing a logo After writing a ton of logo suggestions by hand we came up with one…

Week 2 in the anthill

Packaging prototypes This week we’ve been working on packaging prototypes. We took a different direction with our brand. At first we thought about branding ourself as crispbread for people who like organic food and also working out alot. After a tutoring session with Niklas we found ourself on the baking path. He told us something…

You eat ants?

“You eat ants?” – Mowgli, The jungle book     This week our class started a new course about packaging design. Our assignment is to package edible ants as a raw product and a refined product with ants as an ingredient. We chose crispbread as our refined product. We started out with going to our…