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Scott Amron's Fruitwash Label Solves Huge Design Problem

Posted October 26, 2011 11:53 AM

From TreeHugger:

Someday those clever genetic engineers will design an apple with the bar code bred right into the skin, but until then someone has to tell the checkout person that is is a Mackintosh or an Empire or even that it is an apple. Designer Scott Amron, who never ceases to amaze with his endless progression of crazy ideas like the Keybrid, Brush & Rinse and my alltime favourite, Die Electric offers up the Vanishing Fruitwash Label to solve this intractable problem that has challenged designers forever.

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10/26/2011 12:05 PM

You take that away, then how can I threaten kids that I'm going to put a bannana stamp on them and ship them away

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10/26/2011 6:25 PM

So is there a label on the sticker telling us what kind of soap it melts into? So we can decide for ourselves if it is more or less harmful than the pesticides and wax on the skin?

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10/27/2011 1:26 AM

Tattoo artists of the world, unite! The sky's the limit with this concept. (I don't particularly like the paper stickies, but you can always trade the less expensive ones for the more expensive! I haven't tried this yet, but it is a temptation test...unless you are stupid enough to put a red delicious label on a Granny Smith, which would get you busted by an alert checker.)

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