Packaging blog lovelypackage.com is featuring our work for The Pop Shoppe from a few years ago.
It’s interesting timing to see this work again because we’re hard at work on a new and exciting project that will be launching sometime this summer. It’s top secret so all I can tell you is that The Pop Shoppe will have an ewnay ebsiteway *wink, wink* in a couple of months. Stay tuned.
ModKat was launched at this years ICFF and won the Editor’s Award for Best Accessory. Word is that production is in the works and should be ready for sale by late August. For the dog owners out there dig these glorified sh*t bags
ModProducts, LLC on their green approach says: “We wanted to take a green approach to our packaging and have minimized it to just the outer shipping box and inner holder for the scoop and liner.”
Image courtesy of Retail Week
New bar codes are being introduced in select stores to provide more efficiency at the check-out line. These new labels are smaller and hold more information than conventional bar codes.
“It’s quicker and far more accurate,” Mr. Biddiscombe said. But the system is valuable not only for speeding checkout times and for keeping track of different varieties of bulk vegetables and fruits sold. It also prevents another checkout problem: cashiers mistaking organic vegetables for less expensive, conventionally grown ones, and ringing them up for the lower price.
Image courtesy of Swissmiss
You gotta hand it to the Swiss. They design everything!
In order to throw out the trash here you need to buy region specific garbage bags which have a disposal-tax included. Each region has their own garbage bag design. Would be fantastic to see them all in a collection.
via: Swissmiss
Check this humorous cartoon by artist Lunchbreath. It’s a slight dig highlighting the myriad of ways companies work hard to brand their product as sustainable or eco-friendly.
Convert your empty paperbag into a fun origami animal. The designer behind the idea exlpains, “Empty paperbags, containing simple step by step instructions on how to fold the bag into an origami animal, in order to become a sustainable designer toy in paper. The cost of the bag is directed to the WWF to help save the endangered animal and it’s dying population.”
See the step-by-step process below:
Turner Duckworth continues its solid work for Coca Cola with a new line of limited edition cans to bring in summer. The first can featuring a Sunglass icon (above, far left) was launched this week. The remaining four designs are set to hit stores over the next two months.
The video below explains the work Turner Duckworth has developed for the leading soft drink company.
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This is the prettiest packaging of building materials I have ever seen! Normally there is little or nothing inspiring about the big bags of cement, but Mouse Graphics have gone in a new direction with their package design, and I can imagine that construction workers all over the world will thank them for it!”
‘Green Box’ Product Promo (Pizza Box) from Green Box on Vimeo.
Dig this design solution thought-up by Environmentally Conscious Organization Inc. The heavily perforated box has a few surprises revealed in the video above.
These retro inspired designs appropriately named the Pepsi Throwback and Mountain Dew Throwback brings much needed life back into the stale brands this spring.
While most soft drinks are sweetened by High Fructose Corn Syrup the “throwback” products per Pepsi, are “sweetened with natural sugar, a blend of cane sugar and beet sugar.”
Source: Pepsi-Cola North America Beverages
“The Pepsi Throwback and Mountain Dew Throwback packaging feature a retro look and are sweetened with natural sugar, just as they were back in the ’60s and ’70s, to give consumers a taste of the past”
Head over to Bevreview.com for an in depth look at the series.
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