zombie vomit bag

"I have heard it said love endures all things, now I know that it’s true,
stronger than the grave, death can’t put it out, here I am, the walking dead,
still next to you…"
-Showbread, George Romero will be at our Wedding

We decorated Valentine bags at work so everyone could put goodies in them.  Everyone decorated their bags with sticker hearts and puff paint, which is all well and good but I wanted to do something a bit different.

I designed my bag around the Showbread song George Romero will be at our Wedding.  It’s about a zombie who vomits up a wedding ring and realizes he ate his wife.  He eventually finds her, zombified, and they stay together, despite them both being dead.  It’s about how love can overcome all things, even death.  It’s actually a really meaningful message beneath all the entrails.

I wanted to draw a vomiting zombie on the bag but then I thought I’d put Photoshop to good use and designed the zombie dude in the program and printed him out.  I taped him to the bag, which gave a nice 3D effect.  And instead of just drawing vomit, I made it interactive so you can spin the vomit around.

I also created a QR code which links to the song and on the back of the bag, I printed the song lyrics.  So you’ve got your physical, visual, and auditory interaction, which I thought was pretty neat.

The bag got mixed reactions.  People certainly thought it was different.  Some liked it a lot but most people didn’t get it.  Someone even said, "It’s cute but you’re doing a Halloween bag."  No, it’s a Valentine bag.  it’s just not your typical Cupid’s tush bag.  Love isn’t always so sparkling and shiny.  In fact, love can be gritty and flow outside the lines.  Love takes different forms, people, but it’s all still genuine and valid.  No one kind of love is better than the other.  This is how I show love (which might be why I’ve always been alone) and if they don’t get it, I guess that’s cool.  We can’t all think along the same lines, now can we?  I’ll be weird.  I like weird.

Here’s what the bag looks like.

Here’s the back of the bag with the song lyrics.

You can turn the wheel of vomit to view his stomach contents.

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Coworkers’ bags.  The lady who did the one with the hair is really creative and always does fun stuff for work activities.

More bags.

And more.

And my dude, among the cutesy bags, sticking out like a sore, severed thumb.

And because I can’t leave well enough alone, I created this gif in Photoshop to give the viewer the full experience.

And here’s the song if you’d like to listen: