Article archive :: Logistics and Packaging

How can I decorate my plastic mailing bags for Christmas?

02/01/2013 12:10

During the holiday season, a lot of mail is sent across the world, some is sent across continents, some across countries and some to people within the country. It has been man’s tradition for centuries to send loved one’s gifts and seasonal greeting cards at this time of the year. The ways of...

Student Work - Far Falla

02/01/2013 12:05

Far Falla is a well known bow tie brand that appeals to modern young men around the globe. Matteo Giuseppe Pani has designed packaging for an off the shelf range of bow ties the combine style with convenience. The simple shape of the packaging represents the basic elegance of a bow tie, a...

Interesting Packaging

02/01/2013 11:43

Sometimes in the packaging world, things take a turn for the peculiar and this wine packaging is just one of the moments. Putting clothing on product packaging is not an unheard of concept, famously every year innocent smoothies have their fans knit hats to be placed on the little smoothie...

Make your kids a gingerbread playhouse with cardboard packaging boxes

13/12/2012 10:34

Cardboard packaging boxes, originally, are intended as packing materials. In other words, they are used in order to contain materials and items which you intend to send, mail, or ship to someone far away. They are the most preferred means of securing items primarily because of the fact that they...

Just for fun packaging

06/12/2012 14:34

The objective of packaging is to attract the consumer to it, with product related imagery and relevant information that is likely to persuade them to make a purchase. There is some packaging out there however that seems to just be designed for the amusement of others which is more likely to cause...

Re-using your packaging

06/12/2012 13:58

When you buy a luxury or well made product, often it's packaging is in some way re-usable. In todays throw away world it is highly important that we take advantage of these re-using and recycling opportunities, to help the environment and to find cheaper alternatives to otherwise expensive...

The best type of paint to use when decorating your cardboard boxes

06/12/2012 10:13

Cardboard boxes are famous because they are easily recycled and put to other useful things. The cardboard is tough yet it can be bent and cut easily; it is light and can thus be carried around easily; it is also safe health wise and is friendly to the environment. Most of the items made from...

Too cool for school packaging

04/12/2012 16:48

Packaging is generally a way of keeping a product together, providing the consumer information about it and trying to get them to make a purchase and some of the following examples continue to do just that, but with a little added wow factor. Image from Fun Cage The purpose of this...

Packaging that makes sense

04/12/2012 16:36

In the packaging industry it is common to find packaging designs and themes that make no real sense. Abstract images that look cool and trend but have no real relation to the product. There are however some new designs that at first glance may not have anything to do with the product at all, if...

How many packaging boxes do I need to move home?

29/11/2012 14:55

Moving home is an activity that is dreaded by many although we all must go through it sooner or later. It is a time marked by indecision and confusion. These complications arise when we consider the job as a whole. We simultaneously look at the little things and the large things, the heavy and the...