Ratatouille

Yester-day I watched Ratatouille, and I noticed something interesting about the designs surrounding the food critic Anton Ego.  At the very beginning of the movie, he's briefly present (on television), but when he's first properly introduced, there are design elements around him that are suggestive of death.  The typewriter on which he types his reviews vaguely resembles a skull:

And the room in which he does his writing - as viewed from above - has the same shape as a coffin, even with padded walls:

Both of these death-like features visually connect Ego with the restaurant fatalities that his reviews can cause.  He's a Grim Reaper, but of a different type of death: closed restaurants.

Additionally, while watching the movie, I found some of Pixar's hidden references.

I've seen this elsewhere, but I might as well mentioned it.  While Remy is first exploring Paris, he's startled by the silhouette of a dog that looks like that of Doug from Pixar's Up, which would be released a few years later (Ratatouille was released in 2007; Up in 2009).

Pixar's A113 is present on one of the rat's ear tags.