Extremely colorful and foldable, the cover of German design magazine Novum was inspired by Richard Buckminster Fuller. Created by Hamburg-based agency Paperlux, the geometric cover allows readers to bend and fold the cover any way that they wish. More then 1,000 triangles were die-cut into the surface of the paper – more than 140 die cuts per cover.
Sort of Coal is a Danish company founded by Pernille Lembcke and Louise Vilsgaard whose products place an emphasis on simple and natural purification. And they have nice packaging, too!
I’d love to get my feet into a pair of these Missoni Havaianas!
YOYÓ-CREATIVO, in collaboration with 5 ROOMS AGENCY, designed this nice packaging presentation for Missoni and Havaianas to make them feel less like a flip flop and more like a piece of art.
Photo by 28 studio.
Society27 is a group of young designers whose goal is to create a global product-based community in which every member can work and influence the design of future products. Each product would be a limited edition of 27.
Their first creation the Sneaker/Shoe Model No.1, made of high-quality suede, leather lining and a (really lovely) wooden box.
UK design firm Mash Creative has created a series of objects — State of the Obvious (S/O/T/O) — in which each item’s design is a description. Consisting of tote bags, notebooks, shirts, mugs and posters, each product defines its own brand.
Somchana Kangwarnjit of Prompt Design, a Thailand-based agency, has recently been awarded a Gold Pentaward for t-shirt packaging design called Here! Sod T-Shirt Packaging.
Here! Sod created a new line of t-shirts that are sold in simple yet distinctive packaging resembling food found in most supermarkets. Each shirt is custom packaged to resemble a piece of pork or icy beverage. Although the packaging is simply novel, it creates a fun and engaging shopping experience for the consumer.
There are no words to express how much glee the new Pantone Visa credit cards bring me. Okay, Okay … I know it’s absurd (and potentially very dangerous) to get giddy over what may be seen as the most audacious kind of marketing, on the very icon of consumerism. But… like you don’t use a credit card …
Patrick Sung has designed Universal Packaging System (UPACKS), a conceptual packaging system that forms to whatever it is that you’re shipping. Although it bends around your package, it is designed to be sturdy and strong. The idea is that no one box fits all. Often times, packaging is wasted to fill and pad empty space in boxes.
I know I’ve received a lot of packages that are way too large for their contents. What do you think about this concept?
No, you haven’t stumbled onto The Dieline, but we’re all about design here, and sometimes product packaging is something you can’t avoid talking about. In fact, there are times when the packaging is just as cool as the product.
Case in point: the Preserve toothbrush. Preserve sent me a sample to check out (I have always wanted to try a Preserve toothbrush!), packaged in their brand new eco-friendly packaging.
First, you need to know that Preserve has been making toothbrushes from recycled yogurt cups since 1997, which I think it just super cool to begin with. Now, they partnered with global innovation and design firm Continuum to create the Preserve Mail-Back Pack Toothbrush program. This keeps the toothbrushes AND the packaging out of the landfill — entirely. Each brush is packaged in a sleeve that doubles as a mailer, so that when you’re ready for a new toothbrush, you simply put the old one back in the original packaging and mail it back to be recycled into anything from a picnic table to a boardwalk! I have to say, this is pretty genius. You can get your own Preserve in its new packaging at popular retailers like Whole Foods or Target.
