Try to guess what the scenes below are from! 

What’s in the box? It’s a head… of lettuce! I was honestly pretty proud of how this design turned out. I liked the lettuce, and the box looked pretty similar… and then I remembered what I was being accurate to. A little gruesome, hence why there isn’t really a comparison…

This is 12 Angry Men! Can you see how there are twelve of them, and they’re red with anger? You may also notice the green tomato meant to represent juror number 12. Tomatoes were the most obvious choice for the red/green contrast. (It’s also the only fruit in my vegetable collection)

This icon is meant to be of the monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey. This design got lost in the weeds a little bit as I didn’t use enough of the source material to give the best interpretation.  

Next is a slightly macabre rendition of Schindler’s List. You may be asking yourself, why beans? Well, I didn’t intend it to be garish or crude, but I thought about what foods have a red and a black variant and ran with it.  

This one may be a little more niche, but for those who have seen or read the book “The Little Prince”, this is clearly the iconic Baobab tree planet, but with broccoli. Below the final design was what I ended up pulling from design-wise. I wanted to make a “Trip to the Moon” icon, but could not find a good way to show it. So, I stole the whole planet shape and it became Little Prince. 

This is my proudest design of the whole set. An incredibly complex handle of a lightsaber, giving way to reveal a Leek! The whole design was one I was rather proud of, although I did think it was a little long. The shape felt a bit wonky to implement in many contexts, but the time I spent on the handle felt like I was learning.

In today’s modern world, we are told more and more to think less and less. It’s really easy to idolize a future where everything is easy, but what is there in our lives that we don’t want to be easy. How can we make things more difficult for ourselves? That’s ultimately why I did this project the way I did, was to think outside the box (or inside for some) and push myself with a unique idea.  

I would encourage all of you to think critically more. To do more creatively. And I don’t mean putting a carrot in the Matrix or hiking Mount Doom with potato Hobbits. The options are literally endless for your creativity.