At Hyacinth, we’re used to pouring resin into memories such as wedding favors, newborn keepsakes, and floral trays. But sometimes, resin gets tastier. Recently, we were asked to create a series of ice cream display pieces, sadly not for actual eating, but for permanent decorative display.
And yes, they looked delicious.
🍦 The Ask: Faux Popsicles That Match the Real Flavors
Our client wanted realistic, mouth-watering popsicles for display, each one representing a different flavor they actually sold. Not cartoon-like or stylized. They wanted exact tones: mango-orange with a soft, creamy swirl, pistachio with that pale-green nuttiness, blueberry ripple with specks, and so on.
🎨 The Process: Pigment Precision & Layering
The process of working with resin involved carefully custom blending pigments layer by layer to create visual elements like fruit swirls, melted edges, and semi-translucent centers over creamy undertones, aiming to visually capture a flavor's emotion using resin's unique depth, gloss, and longevity, while each piece was also shaped by hand using customized silicone molds and given realistic quirks such as drips or bite marks.
🧊 Why Resin for Artificial Food Displays?
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Color Customization: You can tweak the tint down to the exact mango-pulp yellow or rose-pink swirl.
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Glossy Finish: Mimics the wet, just-melted look perfectly.
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Long-Lasting: These babies don’t melt. At all. They stay fresh-looking even under Dubai heat (as long as you don’t serve them).
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Durability: Great for cafes, pop-ups, exhibition booths, or product shoots.
⚡ The Real Flex? Making You Crave It
The challenge wasn’t just technical; it was emotional. We had to make people feel hungry looking at an object that’s 100% inedible. If you stared at them long enough and felt like licking one. That's a job well done
Want to create something bizarrely beautiful or wildly niche in resin?
We’re always game to blur the line between art and illusion.