Football for the third world
February 4, 2010 at 8:17 am | In Sport | Leave a CommentTags: design, folded paper, football package, packaging design, unplug design
From Unplug Design. “The meeting between human and design, with happiness. To the children in The Third World; Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Somalia, Congo and etc, who can’t enjoy football freely because of poverty, war and natural disaster, having a football means a lot and can be a dream and hope to escape from their poor life. However, the children are so poor that they can not buy a football. So, they play football with the ball made of plastic bag or a coconut palm leaves. Therefore, giving them thier own footballs which can give them hope, is our aim of this project. Via Let’s find some design
Earth Water
February 3, 2010 at 3:28 pm | In Beverages | Leave a CommentTags: design, earth water, food packaging, glass bottle, package, packaging design, United Nations, water bottle
Earth Water gives 100% of the net profits to the United Nations World Food Programme to provide clean drinking water to millions of refugees around the world. You can purchase it from Colette
Purelosophy
February 2, 2010 at 1:01 pm | In Beverages | Leave a CommentTags: antioxidant drink, Health, natural drink, packaging design, white design
Harmonious design. 100% natural Swiss Antioxidant drinks packed in light, slim recyclable cardboard (12.8 g). From Purelosophy. You can purchase them from Colette
Moulded Fiber Jug
January 29, 2010 at 8:12 am | In Beverages, Material | Leave a CommentTags: ecologic, green package design, milk jug, moulded fiber, moulded package, packaging design
A moulded fiber milk jug from Ecologic. It’s made from 100% molded pulp with an inner plastic pouch that is making its commercial debut in the milk aisle. More info on Greener Package.
www.trendwatching.com
January 26, 2010 at 4:00 pm | In Inspiration, Sustainability Information | Leave a CommentTags: easy green, green, packaging design trends, packaging trends, sustainable, trend 2010, trendwatching
Good read about tendencies in the society. Trendwatching’s interpretation what’s going to happen during 2010. Trend number 6 is called “Eco-Easy” and means that if the world should manage to reach some meaningful sustainability goals this year, corporations and governments will have to forcefully make it ‘easy’ for consumers to be more green, by restricting the alternatives. I recommend to read through the article, some good insights there.
Wine Label Origami
January 26, 2010 at 8:01 am | In Beverages, Paper folding | Leave a CommentTags: design, origami, package, packaging design, paper label, wine bottle design, wine label
Creative wine labels – wine bottles and origami - made by design students from Ècole de Design UQAM. They weere given 1 single sheet of paper, and should from that design a wine label. Printing was not allowed and they were exploring the potential of the paper. Since this was an discovery project, practical stuff such as transportation, handling etc should not be taken into consideration. Purely creative and innovative work which triggers inspiration and new ideas. It truly does!
Stereotype Packaging
January 21, 2010 at 3:30 pm | In Food, Health | Leave a CommentTags: daizi zheng, design, Health, packaging design, stereotype, who
Amusing concept from Daizi Zheng. “According to the World Health Organization (WHO), unhealthy diet is amongst one of the leading causes of the major non-communicable diseases. Can design encourage people to rethink their relationship with healthy food to gain a balanced diet? The series of food packaging were created from the observations on personal behaviors. Using the recognizable stereotyping packaging would make people feel more physically and physiologically connected with those daily objects. By giving the good food a little make over, it could contribute the availability of healthy food and encourages people to make a change for their everyday life.” Via The Dieline
Baggu Bags
January 20, 2010 at 3:14 pm | In Shopping Bags, bags | Leave a CommentTags: bag, design, grocery bag, package, packaging design, recycled cotton bag, reusable
Baggu Bag. A whole bunch of simple and good-looking bags here. The first one is a re-usable bag which has the same design as a standard plastic bag, but holds the content of 2-3 grocery bags. You also have the net bag for veggies, which keeps your green stuff fresh. Last the duck bag which is suitable for all kinds of usage; books, groceries, laptop – an allround bag made of 100& recycled cotton canvas.
Sixpack
January 19, 2010 at 5:08 pm | In Beverages | Leave a CommentTags: bottle carrier, dutch design, ease handling, ooms, package, packaging design, secondary packaging, sixpack, steel packaging
From dutch design firm Ooms. A robust carrier rack made of steel. It can hold up to 6 beer, soft drink, or water bottles.
Sustainable Graphic Design
January 18, 2010 at 12:07 pm | In Literature | Leave a CommentTags: book, design, graphic design, innovative print, package, packaging design, sustainable graphic design
Even the graphic design plays an important role of responsible products. This is a book about Sustainable Graphic Design, which helps designers view graphic design as a holistic process. By exploring eco-conscious materials and production techniques, it shows designers how to create more effective and more sustainable designs. You can order the book here.
Shigenobu Twilight
January 8, 2010 at 11:41 am | In Hygiene/Cosmetics | Leave a CommentTags: beautiful packaging design, design, nature packaging, packaging, perfume, shigenobu twilight, wooden packaging
Beautiful Shigenobu Twilight “This is the first handcrafted scent by NY artist Anicka Yi and architect Maggie Peng. The fragrance is inspired by the Fusako Shigenobu, former leader of the Japanese Red Army, who was believed to be in exile in Lebanon for many years after orchestrating some of the group’s most political statements. Yi and Peng have chosen cedar wood as a central theme of this fragrance’s narrative, as cedar is highly regarded in Lebanon as a national emblem. The scent uses three different kinds of cedar wood as its base note, along with violet leaf and nutty heart notes, and top notes of yuzu, shiso leaf, and black pepper. The packaging for this hand-distilled fragrance is made of raw cedar wood, each bottle uniquely (and painstakingly) hand-cut by the creators in architectural geometry, encasing a 10ml glass bottle of liquid within.” Via Ooga Booga Store
Chocolate Concepts
January 6, 2010 at 11:18 pm | In Food, Sweets | Leave a CommentTags: 5.5 designers, chocolate factory, chocolate packaging, innovative, package, surprise
One of my favorite design firms. The 5.5 designers always make surprising pieces. A project with Barcelona’s Chocolate Factory generated these ideas. The Gâteau, a chocolate “cake” for every taste: each section of the cake-shaped chocolate is a different flavour. Only three molds are used for the production, but flavours can be mixed and matched in many combinations. The honest chocolate, which clearly indicates the amount of calories with the graphics. And the series of chocolate bowls which leads you to the heart of the good taste – the cocoa bean.
Feito a Mao
January 6, 2010 at 10:47 pm | In Food | Leave a CommentTags: 2 in 1, aperitif, boxes, dried fruit, food design, graphic design, package, packaging design
Dried fruit boxes from Feito a Mao. You can buy it via Colette. Through a perforation you split the box in two, and you will find two different types of dried fruit, sweet+salted.
Nasomatto
December 9, 2009 at 4:03 pm | In Hygiene/Cosmetics | 2 CommentsTags: design, Italian Packaging Design, Nasomatto, package, packaging design, perfume, wood
The picture speaks for itself, right! From Nasomatto. See article on The Cool Hunter
Water-shaped Bottles
December 2, 2009 at 5:55 pm | In Art, Inspiration | Leave a CommentTags: beautiful design, design, mould, package, packaging design, water-shaped bottles, xiaoli wen
The water-shaped bottle by Xiaoli Wen. He has created a series of porcelain bottles shaped by a waterfall. He made silicone rubber moulds of discarded plastic and glass bottles, the moulds were filled with plaster and cured while hanging under flowing water. A small number of bottles were selected which people casually discarded into rivers – bottles of mineral water, Coca-Cola, beer, whisky and gin
Here are words from the designer: “Water does not have its own shape. It is shaped by its container. Now water wants to change the container’s shape therefore to decide its shape by itself. It is a philosophical thinking about active or passive, change or be changed.” Via Dezeen and MarteLouise.
The GreenCup Mug
December 2, 2009 at 5:41 pm | In 2nd Life, Beverages | Leave a CommentTags: 2nd Life, coffee mug, green design, greencup, package, packaging design, reusable
Two young Swedish guys – Gustav Nisser Henrik Lindholm - have created this idea and just got ranked on Shortcut’s annual entrepreneur list “Uppstickarna” – for inspirational people below 36. The GreenCup is the alternative to disposable cups; a reusable mug that gets you discounts while at the same time reducing energy usage, wasted resources and litterin. Here is the idea concluded in 3 points;
1. GreenCup creates a network of cafés that all offer the GreenCup mug for sale at a price substantially below market value, as well as a discount when people use their GreenCup mug to buy coffee.
2. To finance this, a section of the GreenCup mugs are offered to environmentally minded companies to market their brand.
3. The consumer, the coffee drinker, well – people like you and me; we then get our hands on these mugs, keep enjoying our coffee at a reduced price and get to help save the environment at almost no effort!
Waste transformed into Art
December 1, 2009 at 9:46 pm | In 2nd Life, Interior Design | Leave a CommentTags: Art, chandelier, design, packaging design, plastic bottles, reusage, stuart haygarth
Stuart Haygarth has collected waste that is being washed up on parts of Kent coastline. With this waste he has produced several objects. This chandelier is one of them and is mainly made of plastic objects. It’s incredible how much waste there is along the world’s coastlines, and amazing how Stuart managed to do something as beautiful as this chandelier of the ugly garbage. Read more about his work on Wallpaper.
Tap Water
December 1, 2009 at 7:13 pm | In 2nd Life | Leave a CommentTags: design, glass bottle, package, packaging design, reusable, second life, tap water
Tap Water - What I like with this initiative is what it communicates – “People – Use tap water”. Buying one bottle is enough and then you can have it for in home usage. Good looking bottle for the dinner table
NASA invention for kids
November 2, 2009 at 6:14 pm | In Beverages | Leave a CommentTags: design, fruit, gogo squeez, innovation, NASA, natural, packaging, pouch, smart, space
GoGo Squeez, 100 percent fruit no sugar added in a squeeze pouch. For kids on-the-go. The package was originally designed for NASA astronauts. The value is a non-spillage package, you just squeeze out the content through the in-built straw. The first product they put in the package was what they called “no-mess-applesauce”.
Forest Milk
November 2, 2009 at 5:50 pm | In Beverages | Leave a CommentTags: bottle, design, glass, green, milk, package, portion, rice design
From Rice Design office, Read more on Lovely Package
Oliviers & Co
October 23, 2009 at 12:06 pm | In Food | Leave a CommentTags: design, ecological products, olive oil, Oliviers & Co, packaging
These beautiful products come from Olivier & Co. Chef Giovanni Ciresa from Italy has created the recipes. He says; “My cooking is full of international influences, however it remains anchored in the Mediterranean tradition; it’s a cuisine that extols the purity of ingredients. Asparagus and cardoons in the spring, squashes, pomegranates, truffles, and chestnuts during the fall season, and all sorts of mushrooms.” They don’t only have food product, but ecological and organic skincare with olive oil as well.
Green Genius
October 19, 2009 at 8:15 am | In bags, biodegradable | Leave a CommentTags: biodegradable, environmentally friendly packaging, trash bags
Bone Project – Ethical Defendable?
October 9, 2009 at 2:39 pm | In Material | Leave a CommentTags: battery, bone, capsule, Material, organic, project
What’s this? Bone? This looks cruel. But as a matter of fact we have these rest products around the globe. And Andrew Ross – a creative soul has done an extensive project about how we could deal with it. The Bone Project has discovered ways to use bone when it’s a waste material. Research was divided between three different areas: perception, properties and fabrication. I would personally like to see more answers around perception; how ethical defendable is this? Would people accept it as they accept leather or red meat? Is leather and meat getting less and less accepted and this would be a step backwards? He developed a whole portfolio of products and during the process he also discovered that bone possesses unique chemical properties. Existing research proposes that ground bone can be used to remediate soil contaminated with heavy metals. However, it should be possible to use whole bone to absorb the toxins released by electronic products, and batteries, upon their disposal. Therefore he designed this battery capsule.
In with Green Packaging – Out with Convenience?
October 9, 2009 at 11:04 am | In Consumer Surveys | Leave a CommentTags: consumer survey, design, environmentally, frisndly, green, packaging
A Consumer Research from Ipsos Marketing, shows that consumers are less interested in food producer’a efforts to develop foods that are unique and fast and easy to prepare. Instead people said that the food should include fresh ingredients and deliver health benefits, AND be packed environmentally friendly. The research was made with more than 23,000 people in 18 countries. Read the article from GreenBiz
Paris Design Pack Gallery
October 5, 2009 at 8:00 am | In Exhibitions | 1 CommentTags: design, Design Pack Gallery, packaging, Paris, recycle
The Design Pack Gallery, a museum based in Paris. Exposing different kinds of packaging, all genres. Shown here is part of their 100% recycle, products made of recycled products. For instance they have lamps made of plastic bottles, wallets made of Carton Packages, jewlery made of caps, yes – a whole bunch of nice things. They will also present the winners from Pentawards, in February 2010. Seems like it’s worth a visit.
Facet Design and Packaging
October 4, 2009 at 8:52 pm | In Beverages, Inspiration | Leave a CommentTags: book, concept, design, facet, packaging, tin, trend
Dzmitry Samal has made the faceted tin concept on the first picture. And with this concept I would like to bring you into what I think is a fabulous document. This Facet Design Book is a fantastic source of inspiration. Scroll through it and you will probably end up having a bunch of ideas. Beautiful! On the same theme Vitamin Water – new label, with the facet design incorporated in the graphic design. Designed by The Coolhunter. The salt and pepper dispenser, designed by Gregory Buntain. And last Fract Engineered Flowers, by Nimrod Gavish.
Barcode Design
October 4, 2009 at 7:15 pm | In Food | Leave a CommentTags: barcode, casavisco, design, makeover challenge, packaging
Barcode design is something very intriguing. Here is one very nice from Beach Packaging. This was part of their submission to Makeover Challenge, a competition between four design teams to redesign the packaging of Casa Visco. Some more barcodes, click here.
Sustainable Packaging Course
September 29, 2009 at 11:56 pm | In Courses | Leave a CommentTags: course, design, packaging, sustainable, sustainable packaging coalition
The Essentials of Sustainable Packaging is a course lead by Sustainable Packaging Coalition. It´s designed for packaging professionals seeking a deeper understanding of sustainability and how sustainability criteria can be effectively integrated into the packaging development process to enhance the lives of people, lower environmental impact and reduce costs. It´s structured around the SPC’s “Definition of Sustainable Packaging” and provides critical insights, design considerations, and innovative examples from the packaging industry and beyond. October 20-21 in Toronto, and November 17-18 in Denver.
Newsweek’s Top 500 Sustainable Companies
September 24, 2009 at 8:15 am | In Sustainability Information | Leave a CommentTags: companiy, green, newsweek, ranking, sustainable
Newsweek released its 2009 Green Rankings this week, rating the 500 largest U.S. companies on the sustainability of their practices. 4 of the top 5 slots were given to technology companies. 1. Hewlett-Packard, 2. Dell, 3. Johnson & Johnson, 4. Intel, 5. IBM. View the entire list here
Prestat Handmade Chocolate
September 21, 2009 at 8:09 am | In Food, Sweets | Leave a CommentTags: chocolate, design, hand made, packaging, prestat
Prestat Chocolate has made this collection called Choxi+ which according to them is a 100% natural chocolate that, because of its careful processing, should be part of a healthy and balanced diet. Rich in antioxidants, it helps maintain healthy blood pressure and cholesterol levels. Comes in neat carton packages.
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