Design

Today, M&M'S®, a member of the Mars family of brands, announced M&M'S Album Art packs, a new musically inspired collection featuring the beloved M&M'S characters reimagined as landmark album covers. The new M&M'S Album Art packaging features the likes of four barrier-breaking and award-winning artists, including Kacey Musgraves, H.E.R., Rosalía and David Bowie, each known for inspiring a wide range of entertainment-loving fans to be their true selves and for promoting a sense of belonging.

Dove has launched the Dove Kids Care Hair Love Collection, and the brand hopes to inspire kids to love their hair. The new range  of hair care products is for curls, coils, and waves.

Dove has partnered with filmmaker, director, and producer Matthew A. Cherry to help tell its story. Cherry will help ensure the next generation of Black kids develop a positive relationship with beauty.

VariOne is designed to immediately generate and print unique creative designs, based on an image or on vector graphics, in ‘endless complex patterns’.

Xeikon claims ‘complete uniqueness of each design’, which it said can be driven by the database or randomly created from bitmap or vector-based images, creating new and unusual designs in millions of shapes, styles and surreal effects.

Brand owners will be able to utilise this in a variety of sectors with different applications including high-end label and packaging.

The internet is a gift that keeps on giving. Every day there are multiple bizarre occurrences around the world to keep us entertained. From the worst food combinations that test our patience to creative twists on just about anything under the sun, people are always on their toes to make something unique. Most always, it goes viral, too. Now, a fashion designer in South Africa has grabbed the attention of Twitterati for her creative take on sustainable clothing.

Continuing in its trajectory of partnering with some of the most relevant creative minds of popular culture, REESE’S PUFFS cereal is now teaming up with renowned artist KAWS. Together, they are releasing KAWSPUFFS, a new AR game, which is accessed via two limited-edition boxes designed by KAWS.

Olay North America is introducing the Easy Open Lid, a limited-edition prototype developed with and for people with disabilities.

The Easy Open Lid will be incorporated into the product design of OLAY’s most popular products: the Regenerist Micro-Sculpting Cream, Vitamin C + Peptide 24 Face Moisturizer, Retinol 24 Face Moisturizer and Collagen Peptide 24 Face Moisturizer.

The lid is white, and paired with different color jars, in red, blue, yellow, and white, for the products mentioned.  

The major players are proposing a range of solutions to the market including new materials which aim to reduce the use of PET or replace it altogether. But are there recycling processes that can handle these materials? The answer to this question is rather complicated and, in some cases, unfortunately it is a negative one. These are potentially interesting solutions, which need to be monitored, and will certainly make a difference in the future, but what are the options currently available?

After searching for an alternative to the plastic punnet, together with Bama Packaging, the company found the solution in using cardboard as the main material in order to "drastically" reduce the production and waste of new plastic.

The square shape is also an advantage as it allows Berries Pride to transport 65 percent more weight on a euro pallet.

Doing this reduces CO2 emissions related to transport and as a result, scales down their climate footprint over time.

HiPP, the largest processor of organic-biological raw materials worldwide, and one of the leaders in the global infant food market, utilized Aptar’s breakthrough thinking to re-design their infant formula packaging for specific Asian markets, including China and Hong Kong. Aptar leveraged its expertise and history of innovation in the development of a customized version of their Neo™ closure, to maximize parents’ experience when selecting and using HiPP infant formula.

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