Pizza Box Art

There are only so many distinct pizza box designs in America. This one says “Delicious pizza!” as if with enough emphasis, it could influence the box’s contents.

The box depicts a cobblestone street, with a lot of perspective, like an early Renaissance work. Upon further inspection, the angles of the buildings are all so drastic they could never exist in the physical world, only in the Pizza World. At the end of the cobblestone street: a pizzeria, with black-line-drawn people carelessly eating in the window.

But above the pizzeria, a pie blots out the sky. It has pepperoni and mushrooms. V-shaped birds and dot-matrix printed clouds huddle near the one corner of the box the Great Sky Pizza hasn't yet subsumed. In a dramatic role reversal, it looks as though the pizza is preparing to devour the pizzeria and the clueless customers inside.