{"id":9735,"date":"2025-10-12T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=9735"},"modified":"2025-10-12T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T03:00:00","slug":"shelf-life-083-gigantics-redesign-wants-you-to-chainsmoke-candy-bars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=9735","title":{"rendered":"Shelf Life 083: Gigantic\u2019s Redesign Wants You To Chainsmoke Candy Bars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A few weeks ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/thedieline.com\/shelf-life-079-cigarette-inspired-packaging-is-trending-thanks-to-smokings-cultural-cache\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">I wrote about how cigarette-inspired packaging is<\/a> suddenly everywhere. We\u2019re seeing it happen in food and beverage, and beauty, places you likely wouldn\u2019t expect. Perfume samples, tea, and drug test strips are all sliding out of slim boxes that open and shut with a little thrill and the notion of a vice. Even o<a href=\"https:\/\/trends.pinterest.com\/detail\/?terms=cigarrettes%20aestethic&amp;hasPredictions=false&amp;dateRange=365D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">n Pinterest Trends, the search term \u201ccigarette aesthetic\u201d <\/a>has grown over the past year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After publishing that piece, my inbox exploded. It turns out that a lot of people are working on this exact concept right now.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><\/figure>\n<p><button id=\"expand-paywall-button\" class=\"expand-paywall-button\">Subscribe to Read More<\/button><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thedieline.com\/shelf-life-083-gigantics-redesign-wants-you-to-chainsmoke-candy-bars\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, I wrote about how cigarette-inspired packaging is suddenly everywhere. We\u2019re seeing it happen in food and beverage, and beauty, places you likely wouldn\u2019t expect. Perfume samples, tea, and drug test strips are all sliding out of slim boxes that open and shut with a little thrill and the notion of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-packaging-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}