Before becoming a packaging material, the creator of bubble wrap had another purpose all together in mind for it.
According to Aurichio, a New York City designer approached inventors Marc Chavannes and Al Fielding in the late 1950s with a proposal for creating textured wallpaper. That idea stalled, but the product the two men had [...]
Bubble Wrap may not have worked so well as wallpaper
Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 27 January, 2010 to the trends subset
Package design so good it belongs in a museum
Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 17 September, 2009 to the design and art subset
The Packaging Design Archive, an extensive resource of “the best examples of innovative packaging objects”.
It is an instrument for research and teaching activities, project development and business. It’s a tool for the monitoring of innovation in packaging design and it is based on an on-line archive of packaging projects, which are catalogued and organized according [...]
We took the garbage out and rebranded, and repackaged, it
Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 10 September, 2009 to the design and art subset
Beautifully packaged New York City Garbage by Justin Gignac… see the full gallery of his work here.
Make cut lunches more desirable by way of their packaging
Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 3 July, 2009 to the design and art subset
A range of very cool lunch box packages designed by Emma Smart.
A bored game no more, Monopoly reboxed
Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 2 January, 2009 to the design and art subset
First there was Helvetica Monopoly, and now the game’s packaging has been redesigned!
Monopoly, in spite being the classiest of all board games, unfortunately is packaged just as boringly and uncreatively as every other garbage board game on the shelves. So, I decided to repackage it… turning the class up to 11.
