We all have bad habits, mostly not very healthy manners, like smoking or a daily chocolate bar addiction. Chinese product designer Daizi Zheng has found a way to encourage people to rethink their relationship between health and diet. He created a range of healthy snacks packaged to look like drugs and junk food to achieve this goal.
The project features cigarette carrot sticks, blueberries in a pill blister pack and celery french fries. Even the amount of vitamins and fat percentage is written on the packages instead of, for instance, the nicotine grade.
"Using the recognizable stereotyping packaging would make people feel more physically and physiologically connected with those daily objects. By giving the good food a little make over, it could contribute the availability of healthy food and encourages people to make a change for their everyday life." thus Daizi Zheng.
But can design encourage people to rethink their relationship with healthy food to gain a balanced diet or to stop smoking? Maybe. I know I wouldn’t just quit my occasional smoke or weekly portion of french fries. But maybe for some persons with bigger problems it could open their eyes. What do you think?
Written for BLEND.
Written for BLEND.
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