Comments on: Keren McConnell’s Orange Wrappers

By: Robertino

Robertino — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 13:55:23 +0000

Dear Sir,I have an lot of FRUITS wrappers from turkey,Argentina,etc.Can Tell me If You are interested to get its? Also I have duplicates for mostly of them.Regards, Robertino!

By: BarVar

BarVar — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 20:40:47 +0000

My family and I visited Madrid this past spring and attended an exhibition of fruit stickers in CentroCentro, the former post office building. Here’s an article in FastCompany magazine about the exhibition: https://www.fastcompany.com/90726540/the-delightful-history-of-fruit-stickers-the-worlds-tiniest-canvases-for-graphic-design

By: Marcia Howard

Marcia Howard — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 15:05:46 +0000

I do however still have an exercise book full of triangle shape cheese labels, which I love. Each set of 6 tells its own story.

By: Marcia Howard

Marcia Howard — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 15:02:42 +0000

What a fabulous collection. I also used to save ‘orange wrappers’ but disposed of them when I felt it was rather a childish thing to do. Perhaps I should have hung on to them!!!

By: Christine Swan

Christine Swan — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 13:03:04 +0000

When we left London, we moved to Dartford. There used to be a very traditional greengrocer called Rose’s which had the shop front open to the elements during the day but all of the fruit neatly stacked for display illuminated by lightbulbs strung along the top. To have an orange or tangerine with the paper on was a special treat. I can still picture little me gazing up at the colours bright in the shining lights. I always admire shops and market stalls that still make an effort to display fruit and vegetables. A few years ago, I travelled to Sicily and was pleased to see orange and lemon trees growing in fields, with wildflowers growing beneath the them and butterflies flitting about between them. A far cry from industrial production with too many chemicals.

By: Lynne Perrella

Lynne Perrella — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 13:01:36 +0000

Fruit graphics of all kinds have been an inspiration to me for years! When I first got interested in needlepoint, I designed four pillow tops inspired by classic fruit crate labels. Still have them. The most fun was doing the research (oh, what a surprise!?). The strong use of primary colors, eye-catching typography, and visual archetypes (sun-drenched fields, costumed figures, etc) were fun to play with on the drawing board. Stitching? — a more tedious situation, but it was worth it to have these boffo pillows that have followed us around through various moves.

This collection of wrappers is extra-charming, printed on tissue — and yet vibrant and sturdy.
(Don’t you love the tiny red musical notes included on one of the wrappers? Pure whimsy.)

Ephemera collections! — Please, keep them coming.

By: achim

achim — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 11:44:56 +0000

Wonderful graphic design. Today’s fruit sometimes has funny, informative stickers: “Organic heroes are allowed to have quirks.”

Love & Peace
ACHIM

By: Cherub

Cherub — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 11:13:23 +0000

These remind me of a childhood primary school project in the 60s. We had to collect wrappers like these, also labels from canned fruits and vegetables to teach us where all the fruits and vegetables we ate came from.

Back in 2006 I was in hospital and my brother visited me with some sweets and 2 oranges. I said we got fruit with the hospital menus. My brother said ”these are special ones, they have a sticker that says Maroc on them” which made me laugh!

By: Annie S

Annie S — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 10:15:08 +0000

A lovely collection, one of my cousins used to collect them too but I doubt that she still has them!

By: Roger Tiller

Roger Tiller — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 09:56:15 +0000

I love your orange wrappers I used to live over a green grocers shop from 1941 1965 and I’ve got some beautiful fruit wrappers date boxes and labels that were put on little wooden crates. keep collcting they also look nice if there framed. Roger