In this interview, Stout Collective’s Matt Tanaka explains the inspiration behind the BOPP Beer and Design Conference, now in its third year.

Brett Parker recently sat down with Shang Wu, Client Director, and Nei Valente, Creative Director, for Design Bridge & Partners to discuss their redesign campaign for Smirnoff Ice, which earned them a 2024 Designalytics Effectiveness Award. Wu and Valente explain recent changes in the beverage and alcohol space that influenced the redesign, the positive consumer feedback they received on the campaign, and lessons from the project that can be applied to all packaging redesign efforts. Images courtesy of Design Bridge & Partners

Packaging Strategies recently sat down Gillian Garside-Wight, Director of Consulting at Aura, to discuss the role of data in packaging sustainability.

In this podcast, we highlight Nefab's second Sustainability Packaging Design Competition, held in collaboration with San José State University (SJSU). This year, SJSU’s Packaging Degree students were tasked with creating sustainable packaging solutions for Cloud Network Routers, vital to cloud networking. Derek Lam, Senior Designer at Nefab, and the winning team—Bea Nguyen, Yvonne Nguyen, and Yaoyao Li—discuss the competition. Image courtesy of Nefab

While paper packaging in many ways is more naturally eco-friendly than plastic packaging, Sun Chemical is busy developing inks and coatings solutions to ensure that true recyclability is achieved as the ‘paperization’ trend gains steam.

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In this interview, Palouse Fiber Packaging CEO Kyler Lovgren explains how molded fiber could help businesses remain compliant as a patchwork of state-level packaging regulations crop up.

In this interview, Niels van den Boogert and Bobby Bauman of AMMEGA discuss CPG firms’ evolving conveyor needs as warehouses and distribution centers become increasingly automated.