For most of my life, my favorite food was cereal. Any cereal. Then I kinda forgot about it until I started listening to the podcast The Empty Bowl.
This totally rekindled my lifelong love affair with cereal. It also let me know that in a lot of ways, cereal has lost its mind. There’s so many varieties of old favorites and new shots at the throne that could either be amazing or disgusting.
I even went so far as to attempt, with some friends, creating a breakfast cereal from scratch.
It was so gross and tooth breaky.
Since I didn’t seem to have a knack for cereal making I did the next best thing, box art.
Since printing full sized boxes was going to be tricky and probably crummy, I bought some single serving boxes.
I tore one open and folded the box out flat and it measured 7.5 x 10, which is great news when you have a regular sized printer.
I scanned in the folded out box and created a design that would really capture the California summer of 2020.
At first I tried to print on some thicker paper stock and fold that into the box shape but it didn’t feel right.
Plan B was to spray a coat of white over the original folded out box and then hit the printed out cover with spray glue and stick it over the original. Then I just got glued the box back together and threw the cereal back in.
The plastic wrap on the 8 pack was so thin that I couldn’t quite get it to go back together so I just tossed them all in my backpack and went to the store to take pictures of them.
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