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A couple of crazy, wacky, packaging projects accompanied by a demure one this week, with work from Murcia, Los Angeles, and Rotterdam. Weirdo by MABA Patatas Rubio is a Spanish producer of potato chips that has been in business since 1965 offering, for the most part, traditional potato chips but earlier this year, it introduced Weirdo, a range of five flavors packing a stronger punch and a very different design than the rest of its potato chip family. The packaging, designed by Murcia, Spain-based MABA, does justice to the name with an entourage of plump, vinyl-esque 3D characters with sass to spare as they strut their stuff across an imaginary catwalk (the starbursts are meant to be camera flashes). They are accompanied by an equally out-there logo that manages to be weird without having