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Christy Lebor
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Where’s the Line between Creative and Kitschy.

Johnny Cash made the expression to “walk the line” one of our most popular shared cultural references. As crucial as finding balance is, it’s as difficult to achieve in packaging design as in our daily lives. But the Man in Black had a point: straying too far in one direction or the other can have…

Design

5 Ways Packaging Can Transform Ho-Hum into A Must-Have.

If you have an unlimited budget, a marketing team working ’round the clock, and several batches of focus groups, you might be able to turn your bargain basement product into a sought-after luxury item. Still, even then, you’d be relying heavily upon luck. It is difficult to determine what the market will uniformly embrace, but…

Design

3 Examples of Packaging Redesign Gone Horribly Wrong.

  Media constantly bombards Americans with messaging, encouraging us to reinvent ourselves. Supposedly, it’s never too late to start over or define a “new you,” whatever that means. While this may be true for folks in the self-help industry, packaging redesign companies know that reinventing ourselves can be difficult and disastrous if handled poorly. This…

Design

Owners Guide: Signs Your Product Really Needs a Rebrand.

Every product’s popularity waxes and wanes (well, to be fair, sometimes it never waxes), and when the periods of wane are significantly longer than the periods of wax, you may want to rethink your brand strategy. The first part of a brand strategy is evaluating one’s brand identity. The second part before you jump to…

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