{"id":30581,"date":"2011-12-08T01:49:30","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T09:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=30581"},"modified":"2011-12-08T01:49:30","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T09:49:30","slug":"rethinking-food-labels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/30581","title":{"rendered":"Rethinking food labels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/Rethink_RWalker.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;The rectangles on top of each label represent main ingredients, and bars on the bottom provide a quick thumbs or thumbs down for a breakdown of fat content, carbohydrates, etc. Icons of spoons and scoops are used to supplement serving size since no one knows what 182 grams looks or feels like.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Above, <a href=\"http:\/\/walkawayrene.com\" target=\"_blank\">Renee Walker&#8217;s<\/a> food nutrition label redesign, winner of UC Berkeley School of Journalism&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/berkeley.news21.com\/foodlabel\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rethink the Food Label competition.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Her work was originally part of an interdisciplinary topic studio focused on contemporary health issues; she has her original versions posted <a href=\"http:\/\/walkawayrene.com\/index.php?\/mfa\/nutrition-labeling\/\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Below, a few of my favorites from the competition:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/Rethink_02.jpg\" width=\"425\"><br \/>\n<em>Corinne Pritchard<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/Rethink_05.jpg\"><br \/>\n<em>Fabius Leineweber<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/Rethink_06.jpg\"><br \/>\n<em>Bradley Mu<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Found via <a href=\"http:\/\/flowingdata.com\/2011\/08\/12\/rethinking-the-food-nutrition-label\/\" target=\"_blank\">FlowingData<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"float: left; \">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-text=\"Rethinking food labels\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/30581\"  data-via=\"mehallo\">Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;The rectangles on top of each label represent main ingredients, and bars on the bottom provide a quick thumbs or thumbs down for a breakdown of fat content, carbohydrates, etc. Icons of spoons and scoops are used to supplement serving size since no one knows what 182 grams looks or feels like.&#8217; Above, Renee Walker&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,50,49],"tags":[121,126,58],"class_list":["post-30581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culinary","category-design","category-education","tag-design","tag-education","tag-graphic-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30581"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30592,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30581\/revisions\/30592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}