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Posted on: 09 March 2023

‘Less is More’ Industrial Design and Product Packaging Development Solutions for a Sustainable Future

All designers know less packaging or eco-friendly packaging leads to improved sustainability - for businesses’ and the world’s ecology. As designers you cultivate the user experience, from production processes to reaching the consumers’ hands. You know this means diversifying the application of packaging solutions, using sustainable raw materials, and reducing production and logistical costs. As industrial designers you establish healthier internal and external practices, educating, innovating, and inspiring industries and individuals through sustainable solutions.

Posted on: 01 December 2021

Biomimicry, Industrial Design Trends, and Creating with Nature’s Genius

“Biomimicry is the conscious emulation of life’s genius” Janine Benyus. It’s incredible to think that the coining of a word such as biomimicry - in the 1997 book of the same name - has led to a world of ingenious design solutions and innovations for sustainability.

Posted on: 01 December 2021

Shelf-to-screen – E-commerce packaging solutions for sustainability, 2023 and beyond!

The packaging of a product is a vehicle, the single greatest medium driving consumer purchasing decisions, and a brand’s most valuable resource. E-commerce is a burgeoning-but-booming business; this change in shopping behaviours is posing exciting challenges for industrial designers, engineers, product developers, and buyers.

Posted on: 20 December 2020

Whitepaper: Paper Honeycomb 101 for Packaging Designers

Paper Honeycomb (NB: further referred to as PH for the purpose of this white paper) has been heralded as “Nature’s Hidden Dream Enabler for Innovative Designers of Packaging and Products ‘inspired by trees and bees’” (EMPHA, 2020).