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Saica Pack’s Cacklebean box a success

David.PackagingSolutions

a day ago
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Saica Pack’s Cacklebean box a success

Following a sharp increase in demand, Saica Pack Newport has supported long term customer Cacklebean’s recent growth with a new creative and visually captivating packaging solution for the brand’s premium range of eggs. With high end customers including Harrods, Marks & Spencer and many world renowned chefs, Cacklebean’s heritage flocks produce some of the country’s finest eggs. Over the past 12 months, demand for the product has boomed, emphasised by James Martin’s glowing r

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Please & Thank You launches with packaging designed by Sea

David.PackagingSolutions

Dec 16, 2020
2 min

Please & Thank You launches with packaging designed by Sea

Creative agency Sea has designed the packaging for start up cosmetics brand Please & Thank You, using luxury recyclable materials from Fedrigoni. Inspired by British nature and craftsmanship, the agency created a brand identity reflective of the nation’s quintessential politeness and quirky humour. Fedrigoni paper was selected for its full recyclability and premium quality, complementing the naturally eco friendly, vegan and cruelty free nature of the soaps. Bryan Edmondson,

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David.PackagingSolutions

Dec 15, 2020
2 min

The Label Makers convey stylish look for start up rum brand

Impactful labels by The Label Makers have helped created a premium look for rum brand, Lost Years – a debut collection of four unique rum blends from independent rum house, Cane & Able. Sourced from leading Caribbean and Latin American distilleries, inspiration for the Lost Years brand has its roots in marine conservation, with an inspirational story centred on supporting one of the region’s most celebrated and endangered creatures, sea turtles. Backed by its partnership with

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Saica Pack and BibaDo create innovative e-commerce design

David.PackagingSolutions

Dec 15, 2020
2 min

Saica Pack and BibaDo create innovative e-commerce design

Saica Pack has joined forces with babywear brand BibaDo to design and create a visually captivating packaging solution for an innovative range of bibs. The bib, designed to be worn like a top, is the only product on the market which straps to a child’s highchair, covering the gap between them and their tray. In turn, it significantly reduces mess and parents can save up to 30 minutes a day when weaning young children. After being challenged by BibaDo to create something that

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Croxsons and Silent Pool Distillers cement partnership with second release

David.PackagingSolutions

Dec 15, 2020
2 min

Croxsons and Silent Pool Distillers cement partnership with second release

Croxsons has once again been called on by award winning gin distillery, Silent Pool Distillers, to provide the primary packaging for its latest expression – Silent Pool Rare Citrus Gin. The release is the first major launch from the distiller, under the Silent Pool Gin brand, since its stunning iconic teal and copper bottle arrived on the craft gin market in 2014. Silent Pool Rare Citrus Gin, which contains some of the world's rarest citrus fruits, is crafted from unusual fru

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Durham Box creates packaging for Edinburgh Beer

David.PackagingSolutions

Nov 14, 2020
2 min

Durham Box creates packaging for Edinburgh Beer

Durham Box’s new Nozomi single pass LED inkjet digital press is currently being put through its paces in the run down to Christmas, in producing short run campaigns and regional promotions. One such seasonal project passing through the corrugated manufacturer’s digital print facility has been consumer packaging and an unusual advent calendar for Edinburgh Beer. Established in the Scottish capital at the start of the pandemic, Edinburgh Beer is a collaboration project that sup

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A glorious ghostly concept

David.PackagingSolutions

Oct 12, 2020
1 min

A glorious ghostly concept

Congratulations to Pavla Chuykina, a senior agency design director from Melbourne, Australia, on winning the first ever Platinum Award for Professional Conceptual work given by the Pentawards. The idea behind this conceptual piece for Happy Ghost old rum is of a ghost that first made an appearance in 1916, who has been spotted in recent years on the shelves of liquor stores. To create this character, the design uses a deep indentation at the bottom of the bottle and adds a pa

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Bringing the dead to life

David.PackagingSolutions

Oct 12, 2020
1 min

Bringing the dead to life

Every autumn in Mexico they celebrate 'El Día de los Muertos' or 'The Day of the Dead' bringing families together to remember their deceased relatives and Constellation Brands wanted to make use of this in the marketing for Victoria, Mexico's oldest beer, bringing the worlds of print and digital together through the imaginative use of AR, or augmented reality, on the beer bottle labels. Created by Chicago-based packaging design agency Upshot working with their AR partner Groo

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Senso for all the senses

David.PackagingSolutions

Oct 3, 2020
1 min

Senso for all the senses

Senso is the latest perfume designed by CAIA Cosmetics, a female fronted and industry disruptive Swedish cosmetics company, set up by models Bianca Ingrosso & Vanessa Lindblad. Their new peach coloured Senso perfume box is wrapped with Munken Kristall 120gsm from Arctic Paper on the outside lid and tray, making it both beautiful and sustainable. The packaging is printed by Göteborgstryckeriet AB with white embossed foil stamping and debossing on the lid for a tactile and styl

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'Take it easy' with Grower and Favini

David.PackagingSolutions

Sep 9, 2020
1 min

'Take it easy' with Grower and Favini

Grower Cosmetics, a eco-brand based out of St Petersburg in Russia, produces small batches of skin care products based on hemp oil and natural ingredients. They needed packaging that could convey the brands natural identity and be produced in short print runs. Their eco-friendly seven-sided cylinder box allows the customer to unbox and see all the products at once. This simple but stylish packaging design sticks to understated earth tones and suggest you 'start chilling'. The

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Watch out, watch out, there's a Tomacho about

David.PackagingSolutions

Sep 9, 2020
2 min

Watch out, watch out, there's a Tomacho about

If you had to market tomatoes and package various different tomato based products, how would you make them stand out on the shelf? Well, when it comes to packaging design, innovation and storytelling, Backbone Branding agency didn’t hold back. In their latest packaging concept for 'Tomacho' tomato sauces, they've created an entire world of characters based around the brand name and the personalities tied to the product. The Armenian product and packaging design agency have ev

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Parkside supports Addo to reduce consumer food waste

David.PackagingSolutions

Sep 9, 2020
2 min

Parkside supports Addo to reduce consumer food waste

Parkside has collaborated with premium producer of chilled savoury products, Addo Food Group, to produce a sustainable and reclosable pack for its range of Tesco mini sausage rolls and pasties. The specialist packaging solutions provider has created a complete 100% recyclable PET tray and lid solution for Addo, comprising a clear tray and heat seal lidding film laminate with built-in reclose technology suitable for sealing to APET trays. The packaging design also delivers imp

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The water of life...

David.PackagingSolutions

Sep 7, 2020
1 min

The water of life...

The new series of labels on PepsiCo's premium bottled water brand LIFEWTR again supports culture, art and the artists who created it. Designed by PepsiCo Design & Innovation in the USA, from Series 1, above, promoting contemporary artists from the UK, through Series 2, all female artists, below, each series is changed several times throughout the year with about 20 million bottles hitting the shelves of each design. Each limited edition series raises awareness around a cultur

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Looking good in 'green'

David.PackagingSolutions

Aug 27, 2020
1 min

Looking good in 'green'

Based in Guernsey, maiiro’s skincare products are inspired by the island’s sea and shoreline and the company is passionate about preserving the marine environment. The skincare range has been specifically designed to help nourish and look after the skin, using a signature blend of five food-grade seaweeds, sourced from Guernsey’s pristine sea waters. To complement maiiro’s branding and ethos, it seemed natural that they should seek to use packaging materials that also contai

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The Label Makers sustainable solution reinforces Sunkissed eco friendly credentials

David.PackagingSolutions

Aug 19, 2020
2 min

The Label Makers sustainable solution reinforces Sunkissed eco friendly credentials

Bradford based label designers and printers, The Label Makers, teamed up with Rainbow Cosmetics to give its multi award winning self-tan brand, Sunkissed, an eco friendly makeover. Family run Rainbow Cosmetics was established in 1990 to wholesale top brand fragrances and cosmetics. More recently, the firm established a separate division that allowed it to focus on building its own brands, one of which is Sunkissed, a tanning brand made in the UK and sold in more than 40 count

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Coca-Cola European Partners introduces CanCollar technology

David.PackagingSolutions

Aug 19, 2020
2 min

Coca-Cola European Partners introduces CanCollar technology

Coca-Cola European Partners, the world's largest independent Coca-Cola bottler, has announced the introduction of CanCollar, an innovative paperboard packaging solution, for multipack cans in Spain. The move supports its work, in partnership with Coca-Cola, to remove all unnecessary or hard to recycle plastic from its portfolio, avoiding the use of more than 11,000 tonnes of virgin plastic a year across Western Europe. Initially, Coca-Cola European Partners will launch the ne

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‘Out of this world’ packaging for Beavertown

David.PackagingSolutions

Aug 19, 2020
2 min

‘Out of this world’ packaging for Beavertown

Since its launch in 2011, Beavertown Brewery has grown from strength to strength. What started as homebrew experimenting in owner and founder Logan Plant’s kitchen, soon matured into a 450,000 hectolitre brewery. The brewer’s relationship with Saxon Packaging started in 2013, when the packaging supplier produced Beavertown’s very first shipper case. Since then, the range of beer packaging solutions it has provided has grown substantially including various gift packs, fridge p

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A Monk and a Saxon walked into a bar...

David.PackagingSolutions

Aug 6, 2020
3 min

A Monk and a Saxon walked into a bar...

Northern Monk is an independent brewery based in Holbeck, Leeds. Inspired by their northern surroundings and the history of monastic brewing practiced across the region for thousands of years, they commit themselves to creating the highest quality beers, combining the best traditional monastic brewing values with a progressive approach to ingredients and techniques. Since 2015, Northern Monk have been using Saxon Packaging, part of the Smurfit Kappa Group, to produce their be

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Redbreast takes flight

David.PackagingSolutions

Aug 6, 2020
2 min

Redbreast takes flight

Redbreast is one of the world’s most celebrated Irish whiskeys, known for its traditional distilling approach based on the 'single pot still' method. Recently, GPA Luxury Packaging teamed up with the brand to develop premium packs for a range of their special whiskeys, including the Redbreast 21-Year-Old. The purpose of this new packaging project was to broaden appeal, and attract a new consumer base driven by curiosity, discovery and authenticity. The design house on the pro

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Make peace with the world

David.PackagingSolutions

Aug 6, 2020
1 min

Make peace with the world

Make Peace is a hypothetical line of conceptual craft beers dedicated to Human tolerance. “When you make peace with yourself, you make peace with the world” is a quote by Maha Ghosananda. He was a revered Cambodian Buddhist monk who served as the Patriarch of Cambodian Buddhism during the Khmer Rouge period and post-communist transition period of Cambodian history. This project is a message of love and unity, a stretched-out hand to a global culture of tolerance, equality and

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