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Package Design
Ingredient Illustrations for Salad Dressing Evoke Fresh-Market Experience
Marie’s Salad Dressing uses a small-batch, freshly-crafted identity for its new sub-brand, Marie’s Market Reserve, a product made with ‘carefully selected gourmet ingredients.’
Package Design
From Dark to Light: Hope in a Jar
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Recycled Blister Packaging
Package Design
A Touchdown for Mars Wrigley’s Connected M&M’S NFL Pack
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All-Paper Blister Package
Package Design
Embossed Wallet for Sublingual Strip
A recurring theme when it comes to packaging of cannabis is the transition from having an army of people in manual mode to an operation where automated or semi-automated systems reduce the amount of packaging that’s done by hand.
Package Design
2020 Perspectives on 2030 Packaging
Should these packaging visions come to pass, packagers and their packaging technology vender/partners will continue to find efficient, sustainable ways to identify, protect, and distribute products to their consumer and industrial customers.
Sponsored
Industry award to honor packaging and processing professionals
Beginning March 3, PMMI will accept nominations for the Packaging & Processing Hall of Fame. Since 1971, this prestigious award has recognized some of the most distinguished contributors to industry. Learn more »
Package Design
Smart Pack Invites Consumers to View Value Chain
Brazilian dairy producer Languiru Cooperative has become a leading regional market players despite increased competition thanks to a unique QR code on each pack that tells a brand story. SIG’s Connected Pack solutions allowed the innovation.
Package Design
DS Smith Opens New Manufacturing Plant
DS Smith announced the opening of its state-of-the-art 550,000 sq-ft manufacturing facility in Lebanon, IN.
Package Design
Salmon with a Smile: Fish Brand’s Bold Personality Captured in Redesign
New label graphics for Honey Smoked Fish Co.’s salmon products evokes the original founder’s ‘big personality,’ while taking its cues from old fish market signage.
Sponsored
Industry award to honor packaging and processing professionals
Beginning March 3, PMMI will accept nominations for the Packaging & Processing Hall of Fame. Since 1971, this prestigious award has recognized some of the most distinguished contributors to industry. Learn more »
Package Design
Broken Glass Makes a Comeback in Limited Edition Absolut Bottle
Made from pieces of broken, recycled glass, the Absolut Comeback bottle is created to encourage recycling and a more circular lifestyle among the vodka producer’s consumers.
Package Design
Progressive Disclosure: The Full-Course Meal of Packaging
Progressive disclosure of information about a product through on-pack labels and instructions contained within the packaging enhances the consumer’s experience one action at a time.
Package Design
The Power of Iconic Package Design
Warhol retrospective at Chicago’s Art Institute recalls how iconic brands and their alluring package design inspired the pop art movement and catapulted the artist into history.
Design
TricorBraun Acquires Packaging Solutions, Inc.
Packaging manufacturer TricorBraun acquired Minneapolis-based Packaging Solutions, Inc. (PSI), a rigid packaging distributor serving several markets, including pharmaceutical, pet food, and personal care.
Package Design
Column: Colgate-Palmolive Competes on Toothpaste, not Tube
Colgate-Palmolive’s breakthrough toothpaste tube, on pace to be fully rolled out by 2025, is certified as recyclable by the Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR).
Business intelligence
Clean Label Impacting Food Packaging and Formulation
The “clean label” consumer trend is heavily influencing food processing, with nearly half of participants interviewed for a new PMMI Business Intelligence report being impacted.
Coding, printing & labeling
The Evolution of Digital Inkjet Labels
Variable data and personalization are just the tip of the digital print iceberg, as new developments alter purchasing, production and supply chain in the market.
Package Design
Color Trends for 2020 and Beyond: Cold or Hot?
Authenticity, honesty, and technology stand out as the drivers of the next two years’ color trends, but how they are interpreted into color are vastly different.
Package Design
5 Key Takeaways About the Certified Plant-Based Mark
(Hint: It's not the same as vegan.) With plant-based alternative foods outpacing total food sales by over five times, brands needed a meaningful definition of the term plant-based that shoppers could quickly identify.
Package Design
Nostalgia, Modern Art, and High-Tech Coalesce in Skincare Sampler Pack
A four-pack sampler of vegan skincare masks is conceptualized as a mixtape, with packaging that looks like a '90s cassette—but with a modern twist.
Package Design
NFC-Ready Label Boosts Skincare Adherence, Engagement
Near Field Communication (NFC) RFID labels are becoming practical for higher-end products. We follow NFC trailblazer Société Clinical Skincare on its journey into a unique NFC beta test that’s less about retail theater and more about ongoing engagement.
Package Design
Placon Wins WorldStar Awards
Placon won three WorldStar awards from the World Packaging Organization.
Package Design
‘Haircare for Foodies’ Gets Equally Appetizing Packaging
A clever custom bottle in a vintage milk-bottle style speaks to the fresh food ingredients found in the Sauce Beauty line of haircare products.
Package Design
More sustainable RRP format
Morrisons Supermarkets of the UK has re-launched its Best Bacon product in an improved Retail Ready Packaging (RRP) format.
E-commerce
Digital Print Boosts User Experience for E-Commerce Packaging
Giuseppe Prioriello, Founder and CEO of Italian company Packly, spoke to the Digital Print for Packaging Europe conference in Berlin last week about digital printing’s role in e-commerce.
