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Is your packaging design ready for space?

The human preoccupation with space travel has led us, as patriotic Americans, to wonder: When will someone design a Doritos package that can survive reentry? Moreover, will the packaging appeal to the extra-terrestrial market?

Design

4 Ways Physical Product Placement Affects Package Design

When it comes to package design, we in the design profession can be guilty of thinking mainly of our desire to win awards, have our works featured in Taschen anthologies and have bio-films made about us and our deep and agonizing desire to create art when we shut even those we love most out of…

Design

4 Ways to Spice Up Bland Convenience-Food Packaging

Convenience foods are depressing enough; why make the packaging mind-numbingly bland? Remember, convenience foods are mass-produced, largely synthetic and nutrition-free (and shamefully addictive. Damn you, Funyons). If the packaging can’t conceal this fact, then we may as well be living in an oppressive, dystopian regime, where all of our sustenance comes in pill form and…

Design

Why Baby Steps to Rebranding Are More Effective.

Baby steps are a recommendation (not always well-received) we make before engaging in any activity that can result in catastrophe. Yet, when it comes to the steps to rebranding, many companies put the pedal to the floor, trying to get the project completed as fast as possible.  These brands insist on leaping without a functioning…

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