The Awesome Art of Pizza Boxes

 

Food has long been an artistic subject, and a means of showing off technical chops. Gazing at still lifes by the likes of Pieter Claesz or Paul Gaugin never fail to make us hungry. But art can also be a means of advertising food products.

 

"Viva La Pizza!", a recently published collection of "weird and wild art" found on pizza boxes, illustrates just how innovative food sellers can be when designing packaging for their products.

 

"Season’s Greetings.” This box earned a bronze medal at the International Flexographic Printing Competition for RockTenn’s Wakefield facility in 1998.

 

This Valentine’s Day box (circa 1996) is one of the only Roma boxes that does not feature a company logo.

 

This four-color spot print, designed by artist Ed Hardy for Tony’s Pizza Napoletana in San Francisco, was limited to a run of 10,000 and sold to customer for $3 on top of their pizza purchase. Proceeds were donated to charity.

 

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