number 500 a.k.a. voodoo...doo

one of the weirder product lines i've had to design packaging for is our "droppings" line. chocolate covered nuts which have been cleverly renamed after various animal fecal matter.
it is upsetting.
mostly because my people were brought up to believe feces should not be cutesied up.
plus the labels are kind of plain so i get bored easy.

see? kind of plain. we put the droppings in a paper bag and no, the funny of that isn't lost on me and then we put the labels on the bag and then people buy them for a reason i've yet to figure out.
it was around elephant droppings time when i started to get a little campy and design labels for my own amusement. first there was this slight variation...


and then there was this...


yes. yes i did find this way more amusing than i should have.
and yes, yes i did print out these ideas and put them on peoples desks.
and yes, in fact they did get sent with the rest of the actual label ideas to our california sales rep who's in charge of the droppings line.
and yes, she thought it was serious.
and yes, she got really enthusiastic about the pink elephant droppings.
and yes, this is my personal hell.

thank you for asking.

but seriously, who wouldn't realize how much of a joke that is?

nobody gets me.