In 2008 Anni Nykänen won four awards for her Popcorn concept. Three of them European student design awards at the IOP: Student Starpack Awards. The Gold, Best in Show Award, Marks & Spencers / Korsnas Frovi Sponsored Award as she helped PACKLAB. Lahti Institute of Design to win the Eric Dickens Award for the second time in 2008.
Months later her packaging picked up a 2008 Honorable Mention at the Worldstar Student / Packaging Design Competition (International) Award. Since then the internet has been alive with activity over her innovative concept.
“Beautiful sculptural concept! what is so great about this is the designer has taken something so mundane and lacking innovation and has reinvented it as an object of beauty that one could even serve straight out of the package”
Yael Miller / Creative Director
“I love cleaver designs, and Anni Nykänen of Packlab at Lahti Institute of Design in Finland has really amazed me with this brilliant popcorn package that not only looks surperb while you pop your popcorns in the microwave but the packaging itselfs pops-up into a nice bowl when your popcorn is ready to be served! How clever is this design!”
regards, playmedesign
“Love microwave popcorn, but hate the bag? You’re not alone. Designer Anni Nykänen of Packlab at the Lahti Institute of Design in Finland apparently shares your sorrow and has designed what will probably be the future of microwave popcorn – a slick container that folds down to fit into your fast-heating oven, then pops-up to become a bowl once the contents are ready to eat.
That’s right, the Pop-Up Popcorn Bowl sports two functions in one, affording you a small package to hold the kernels in and a four-legged bowl you can stand on the nearby table. Instead of having to move all that buttery, salty snack onto a separate serving dish for consumption, you simply keep it in the exact same place.
Currently a concept, don’t you think it’s a better, more convenient replacement for those fugly popcorn bags? Even if we never see it branded with Pop Weaver and Jolly Time, it can be sold on its own as a hip alternative to those discouraged by the health concerns related to microwave popcorn pouches (i.e. the bags’ PFOA content, which has been found to be a carcinogenic among lab animals).
I think the Pop-Up Popcorn Container is the future of popcorn. Just throw the kernels in, add a little oil and get your popcorns exploding inside its stylish frame. If not, it at least looks like good paper Origami.”
Noel from www.coolthings.com
More from the blogs:
http://www.coolthings.com/pop-up-popcorn-bowl-the-future-of-microwave-popcorn/
http://www.trendsnow.net/trends_now_/2009/06/microwave-popup-packaging.html
http://aima007.blogspot.com/2009/06/anni-nykanen-packlab.html
http://www.playmedesign.com/2009/06/microwave-pop-up-packaging.html
http://delayprocrastinate.tumblr.com/post/120469140/anni-nyk-nen-of-packlab-at-lahti-institute-of
http://unitedrotation.com/2009/06/09/microwave-pop-up-packaging/
http://noquedanblogs.com/diseno/packaging-para-popcorns/
http://packaginguqam.blogspot.com/2009/06/microwave-pop-up-packaging-anni-nykanen.html
http://www.elchiltepe.com/2009/06/empaque-con-doble-uso-para-poporopos-de.html
http://press2talk.wordpress.com/2009/06/09/microwave-popcorn
http://lileauxashby.blogspot.com/2009/06/microwave-pop-up-packaging.html
http://escapadesofhanna.tumblr.com/post/120784103/delayprocrastinate-anni-nyk-nen-of-packlab-at
http://www.notcot.org/post/22301/
http://fluturat.blogspot.com/2009/06/microwave-pop-up-packaging.html
http://randommization.blogspot.com/2009/06/popcorn-pack-transforms-to-bowl.html
http://www.architetturaedesign.it/index.php/2009/06/10/packaging-microonde-popcorn-anni-nykanen.htm
http://gufugumu.com/blog/2009/06/09/faire-du-popcorn-avec-classe/
http://www.outnext.com/on/2009/06/pop-your-corn-in-style.html
http://www.makeyself.com/?p=180
http://bbq.lv/jaunumi/visiem_zinams_bet_jauns_popkorna_iepakojums
http://www.commenti-moda.com/celebrities/packaging-per-popcorn-a-microonde/
http://posted.thelabelfinder.de/anni-nykaenen-popcorn-verpackung-653
http://queestaranhaciendoenchina.blogspot.com/2009/06/palomitas-de-microondas-con-bowl.html
http://saar.tumblr.com/post/123854316/anni-nyk-nen-of-packlab-at-lahti-institute-of
