Bompas & Parr: Light Food

LEICESTER SQUARE, LONDON, JULY 2013
The world’s first glow in the dark Cornetto’s created for a film premiere of The End of the World. The talented duo of designer Bompass and Parr created a fluo cinema-based snack impregnating the ice cream glow with riboflavin (vitamin B2) wich luminesces under certain wavelengths of light.
UV light helped in illuminating the ice cream without disturbing the view of the movie.
Improving the research in luminescent food, the designers tested a new method with glowing luciferin enzymes from genetically modifies bacteria, the same that fireflies and jellyfish use to fluoresce. The enzyme doesn’t need UV light to glow and can produce the same effect under normal.