Use Design for Good – Why Do I Have to Tell You Again?
Lewis black once said, “Candy corn is the only candy in the history of America that’s never been advertised. And there’s a reason. All of the candy corn that was ever made was made in 1911.”
So leave it to a designer to take what we should only put up with once a year, add a spring color pallette, and make a second batch of this junk.
Bad enough I still pay more for lunch because of design, now I have to see this stuff on the store shelves outside of October? Outrageous.
March 2nd, 2007 at 3:12 pm
yeah, but candy corn is good!
March 4th, 2007 at 2:54 pm
Also…they have had this for years…
They may have changed the colors, but they have always put out candy corn at easter. They may have billed them as little carrots, I can’t be sure. Either way, all they did was change the color so that it matches in a serving bowl of like colors. I say kudos (even though it’s bad for you) to the person. I highly doubt a designer made that choice, more like an exec. ‘Hey, lets make it pastel this year!’
March 29th, 2007 at 8:52 am
Hmmm. But I LIKE candy corns. Yum! (Can you tell I am on a restricted sugar diet?)
As far as who made the ‘design decision’, I bet you it wasn’t a designer per se. It was most likely a production decision along with upper mgmt. Typical outcome of such decisions.
June 1st, 2007 at 2:15 pm
I don’t think I’ve ever actually had Candy Corn. Then again here in Canada everthing is hard and frozen.