Comments on: Orange Wrappers

By: Alfredo

Alfredo — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 09:18:38 +0000

Yo siho coleccionando alguien tiene para cambiar

By: Jennie

Jennie — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 21:56:49 +0000

I too was fascinated by the tissue fruit wrappers around oranges, apples, pears etc. I collected them into an album around 1957/8 and I used them to gain my Brownie’s Collector badge. Sadly I don’t have them now, but I learnt about where fruit came from and the colours and sometimes flags of many nations.

By: Marcia Howard

Marcia Howard — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 17:52:19 +0000

A wonderful reminder of my growing up years, because I too collected fruit papers. I no longer have them but don’t recall what might have happened to them.

By: Cherub

Cherub — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 14:40:30 +0000

I remember fruit coming wrapped in these when I was a child, the wrappers were like miniature works of art and very colourful. When I was 9 years old in primary school we had a project where the teacher asked us to bring in fruit wrappers or labels from tin cans, it was to teach us where all our food came from in the world. She pinned all of them around the dado rail of the classroom. Her name was Mrs Skinner, she was a lovely lady who came out of retirement when there was a shortage of teachers in the area, her late husband had been the local vet.

By: Lynne Perrella

Lynne Perrella — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 14:09:51 +0000

(I believe Louise Fili, one of the most noted graphic designers in the US, did a little book about her collection of these packaging “tissues”. ) To me, it is another form of ephemera, and therefore endlessly fascinating. These “throw-aways” have great beauty — for anyone with the EYE to notice them, and collect them. I’m always so happy when we get to see these very personal collections, thanks to the GA.

In the 1970s, I was captivated by dual fascinations: needlepoint AND vintage fruit labels. I decided to combine the two, and designed four needlepoint toss pillows; inspired by California fruit labels. As a designer of corporate communications at the time, it was a fun side project to explore this color-drenched off-beat topic and translate those graphics into a stitched form. The resultant pillows were shown in a magazine — and, better yet, I still have them. Fruit labels are exemplars of unique display typography, combined with color-blocked vibrant illustrations. They depict a sunny, idealized world and entice the eye with a lavish primary palette. As we say here in New York: “What’s not to like !!!??”.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 11:18:30 +0000

Fantastic. Thank you so much.

By: Maria OK

Maria OK — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 08:53:25 +0000

Thanks for sharing your collection of mini works of art. I too was intrigued by the use of the Tower Of London. How many wrappers did you have in your collection ? Sadly , I don’t think kids collect in the same way today.

By: Christa Freestone

Christa Freestone — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 06:57:42 +0000

Beautiful collection. Nice to see that other people also value these delightful papers.
I use mine now in collages and other artwork because it seems a shame to keep them hidden in drawers.
Thanks to the G. A. for showing them. C x