I think that the term “nutritionally empty” is very intriguing, so I wanted to make it stand out as much as possible. I did this by using a shadow font, in this case Gill Sans Shadow MT Pro, and filling in all the letters in the fact except “nutritionally empty”, which I left white (or empty). 

In order to represent the calorie part of the fact, I found images of nutrition facts and reproduced a simplified version of the standard label

 

I broke down the number in the fact by day, hour, and minute in order to show the magnitude of the number.

It was important for me to represent modern India as opposed to the clichéd old-fashioned Indian designs and typography that I often come across. During my research, I came across the Ubunti font that supports the new Indian Rupee sign, which I used in this design.

Hearts are used instead of a typical bar chart because a heart is an index for love in western culture.

I designed the “woman” heart to be bigger deliberately in order to show that the one love has more weight than the individual three loves.

Pink and blue are used to represent each sex because they are the typical colours used to identify the sex of a baby in western culture.

I wanted to highlight the irony of this fact so I looked up “made in USA” in Mandarin on Google Translate and put it on the chopsticks. Since most people can’t read Mandarin, I put it in English as well but didn’t think it needed to be red since it’s a translation.