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Silver Packaging Design · 2024

Lays Dungeons And Dragons Food Packaging

by PepsiCo Design and Innovation

  • A' Design Award 2024 Silver Winner in Packaging Design
  • Awarded April 15, 2024
  • CLIENT: PepsiCo
  • Estimated Number of Design Views: 33,913
  • Verification code 96CE549C28 · Verify this award
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About Lays Dungeons And Dragons Food Packaging

Lays Dungeons and Dragons is a food packaging design created for a range of potato chips. The packaging was released as a tie-in with the 2023 film Dungeons and Dragons, Honor Among Thieves, and was joined by an influencer kit. The design draws on the fantasy world of the film. The central figure of the campaign is The Potato, a character that appears in the film and is also a real potato. The theme links the story to the potatoes grown on more than 100 farms in the United States and Canada that supply the chips.

This remarkable packaging presentation represents a distinguished achievement in experiential brand design, where the boundaries between commercial product and collectible artifact dissolve through thoughtful material storytelling and visual narrative construction, the work demonstrates exceptional understanding of how physical presentation shapes consumer perception and emotional engagement, transforming an everyday snack purchase into an event worthy of ceremonial unwrapping, the designers have drawn upon centuries of treasure chest iconography from maritime adventure tales to fantasy literature creating immediate associations with discovery, reward, and precious cargo, the chromatic strategy employs a sophisticated warm palette anchored by the golden yellow of the central package which radiates outward like captured sunlight while the flanking packages in earth tones and burgundy create chromatic brackets that suggest variety within unity, the attention to material authenticity in the chest construction from the properly aged brass fittings to the convincingly weathered wood grain demonstrates commitment to immersive worldbuilding that respects the intelligence and imagination of the intended audience, the burlap textile interior serves multiple functions simultaneously providing practical cushioning, visual warmth, and associative connections to merchant goods and medieval market stalls, the invitation card positioned prominently establishes this as a complete experience rather than merely a transaction, inviting continued engagement beyond the initial unboxing moment, photography direction achieves gallery-worthy drama through controlled studio lighting that sculpts form while maintaining sufficient shadow mystery to evoke torchlit chambers and discovered hoards, viewers might consider how this presentation reimagines the relationship between commercial packaging and emotional experience.

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Unique Properties
LAY’S® went to the movies with epic new packaging and an influencer kit tie-in for the 2023 blockbuster Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. With flavor as our guide, we rolled the dice and entered the legendary world of Dungeons and Dragons, joining the millions of adventurers ready for a taste of excitement.
Inspiration
The main character in our campaign was “The Potato,” a character in the movie and—yes—an actual potato. After all, every bag of Lay’s Potato Chips in the U.S. is made from our very own chip-perfecting potatoes grown on over 100 farms across the US and a handful in Canada.

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