Snack packaging gets a second life as wonderful papercraft thanks to a Japanese art student.
Harukiru, a student at Kobe Design University, makes these striking sculptures by cutting up the packing with scissors or a blade. Kotaku previously featured his paper gun that shoots wooden bullets.
These days, he’s best known for his snack packaging sculptures. The above Ritz Cracker lion took three days to finish!
When asked if he ate all the Ritz crackers, he replied that he has a long battle ahead of himself.
長い戦いになりそうです pic.twitter.com/HVd6V0TgJm
— 空箱職人 はるきる (@02ESyRaez4VhR2l) February 2, 2019
The way Harukiru sees papercrafts in packaging is remarkable.
ネスレコーヒーの空箱で工作しました！ pic.twitter.com/uBefYK84d5
— 空箱職人 はるきる (@02ESyRaez4VhR2l) December 7, 2018
明治ザ・チョコレートの空箱で工作しました！ pic.twitter.com/KjDGG2W4BD
— 空箱職人 はるきる (@02ESyRaez4VhR2l) December 1, 2018
ミルキーチョコレートの空箱で工作しました！ pic.twitter.com/Ec4TjJJEYS
— 空箱職人 はるきる (@02ESyRaez4VhR2l) December 15, 2018
— 空箱職人 はるきる (@02ESyRaez4VhR2l) October 13, 2018
アーモンドチョコレートの空箱で工作しました！ pic.twitter.com/npqimyudV7
— 空箱職人 はるきる (@02ESyRaez4VhR2l) November 23, 2018
アルフォートの空箱で工作しました！ pic.twitter.com/gYNjLKxMYb
— 空箱職人 はるきる (@02ESyRaez4VhR2l) September 29, 2018
プリングルズの空箱で工作しました！#papercraft#packingart pic.twitter.com/l8Wx38MXt0
— 空箱職人 はるきる (@02ESyRaez4VhR2l) October 16, 2018
The sculptures are so detailed.
ベストの赤は円柱の上蓋部分を使っています pic.twitter.com/GWBSc3fwOW
— 空箱職人 はるきる (@02ESyRaez4VhR2l) October 16, 2018
顔は今迄で一番苦戦しました pic.twitter.com/v0XnrXT6rC
— 空箱職人 はるきる (@02ESyRaez4VhR2l) December 15, 2018
What makes his art so interesting is that sometimes the sculpture is a riff on the product name.
コアラのマーチの空箱で工作しました！ pic.twitter.com/WBD6QuNl3Z
— 空箱職人 はるきる (@02ESyRaez4VhR2l) January 5, 2019
For example, the name of these cookies is Koala’s March.
メルティーキッスの空箱で工作しました！ pic.twitter.com/PoMCT0Uo46
— 空箱職人 はるきる (@02ESyRaez4VhR2l) January 31, 2019
ムーンライトの空箱で工作しました！ pic.twitter.com/uFTI8ZoOcR
— 空箱職人 はるきる (@02ESyRaez4VhR2l) January 12, 2019
*applause*
Be sure to follow Harukiru on Twitter for more incredible papercrafts.
Comments
3 responses to “Turning Snack Packaging Into Amazing Art”
This is really interesting but an article containing links to twitter is not.
Mayhaps a layout something akin to the Fine Art pieces with a single link would be easier viewing?
I’m pretty sure those twitter links used to expand into twitter widgets which would actually show the images, but I can’t get that to work anymore. It’s really tiresome having to open each link to see what it’s referring to.
I get the twitter widgets perfectly on other websites. It’s definitely something to do with Kotaku’s own code.