Marjut Rimminen

AXO, butter pastry

1980–1983 · Commercial · 10 seconds

AXO / Vistakuva

Ten seconds of cel animation built on a single idea and carried out properly. A white shape of rolled pastry sits on a flat red ground with "Voitaikinaa" (butter pastry) hand-lettered across it in fat black brush script, and a wooden rolling pin with AXO in red capitals rolls back and forth over the word. The letters read as dough rather than as type, squashing and bunching under the pin and coming back as it passes, which is a thing only animation can do to a word. The pin carries the brand, so the name of the product is what does the rolling and the lettering it flattens is the name of the thing being made, and the pun works in both directions at once. It finishes on white with the AXO logotype, the O redrawn as a small chef in a tall hat with eyes, a wide mouth, ears, hands and feet, who looks about and winks while a sung line runs over the top.

A white card lettered Voitaikinaa in black brush script on a flat red ground A rolling pin marked AXO passes over the lettering, flattening the words beneath it The pin continues across the dough shape, the letters stretching under it The word Voitaikinaa alone on the white dough, heavier and wider than before The AXO rolling pin centred on white with small dark shapes ranged along its edge The pin again, black brush shapes bunched above it on the pale dough

Heard in the film, machine transcript, not checked: Nyt kaikki kaulimaan aksonvoitaikinaa. Siitä pian valmistaa pasteijat ja piirakkaa. Osta paistaa aksu!

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