1/1 Interview with Trevor Kirchner, Unisource Packaging Engineer And 3D Print Prototype Pioneer
While doing some research on 3D printing, I learned that Unisource Engineered Solutions was using this technology to create packaging and prototypes as a service! I had seen plenty of examples of 3D printing, but here was a “paper” company who invested in the machines and was using them to help customers and actually make […]
Meet Think Tanks Dean Rose, The Happy Hero of High-End Packaging
I meet some of the most amazing people through my LinkedIn Group, and Dean Rose is certainly one of them. What immediately drew me to him was his passion for Print – this is a guy who LOVES his job and could easily make a living as a motivational speaker for the industry! On top […]
THiNKing About How Printed Electronics Will Impact Print & Consumer Packaging
THiNKing About How Printed Electronics Will Impact Print & Consumer Packaging @ Ryerson University on March 28th by Andrew Wong On Thursday March 28th, students at Ryerson University’s Graphic Communications Management (GCM) program will be hosting its annual colloquium event. This event consist of two seminars, featuring experts from the print and packaging industry and […]
Polytron Technologies Unveils Transparent Phone (VIDEO)
Technology is cool. There is no denying that, at least in my book. While in most recent times the tech advances have been to the detriment in many ways to the longevity of print in certain channels, this situation is actually quite interesting. At Graphics of The America’s last week I held a panel […]
Japan Using #AR To Teach Kids to Enjoy the Newspaper!
This needs to be an “A-HA” moment for the publishing world! Problem: Printed newspaper readership in decline, loss of advertising revenue Solution: Using an Augmented Reality APP, the content which is aimed at adults is “translated” into content aimed at KIDS! It’s a newspaper within a newspaper – AND – opens up a whole new […]
Philadelphia Cream Cheese Goes Interactive With #AR #Packaging
Get a schmear of Augmented Reality with your bagel! Brand loyalty is a wonderful thing. Once consumer trust is established, opportunities to create evangelists for products and services and create new users, can be found even through packaging! I think this is a great example for a few reasons… • Loyal Philly fiends will love […]
McDUMB! McDonald’s Tries #QR Codes
It’s hard to believe that there haven’t been any McQR codes before now, but they are certainly going all out by putting them on every bag and soda cup! The codes will lead to nutritional information, but I see two pretty HUGE problems with that. The first, if I have a bag or a […]
At Brazil-based Fast Food Chain, Packaging Is Edible
We have shared info about edible packaging, and edibles that were turned into packaging, but those were more gimmicky than this latest execution which does in fact seem to solve a huge “waste” issue. Fast Food is big business, especially in the US. Over the years we have all experienced a Fast Food packaging shift […]
YUPO PAPER Steps Up In Wake Of Sandy
This is just one huge reason why I am, and have been a long standing fan (and customer) of YUPO. People helping people just because it’s the right thing to do. To our valued clients, vendors and merchants affected by Hurricane Sandy: Yupo Corporation is aware of the devastating effects of Hurricane Sandy on the […]
New Paper Unveiled Made From Olives
Leave it to the Italians to work olives and other food into paper! The Favini site is really cool too, oh but it’s in Italian. So unless you can understand that, or have retained enough Spanish to recognize some of the words, just look at the pictures and imagine the smells of slow cooking […]
Landa: Nano Promises Printing Revolution
So here it is… if you, like many, take the word of Mr. Landa to be the last word on all things print, we can finally put the debate to rest… PRINT, is not DEAD. Well, not all of print. We will have some casualties but this shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone. In any […]
Cardboard Packaging That Creates A Forest Ecosystem
This is video is from March of last year but its making it’s way around, or possibly back, through the packaging circles. Since I didnt see it before, I’m going to assume you guys didnt either and it’s worth a share. No matter how many times, or months this has been around, its still a […]