Features | Labels & Labeling

Short-run printed packaging; spooky special – part 2

23 October 2012

As Halloween gets ever-closer, it becomes more and more apparent through printed packaging how this is an event for kids. While there are a...

New Delhi delight

22 October 2012

As Labelexpo India 2012 returns to Pragati Maidan, New Delhi for its sixth edition, David Pittman speaks with Labelexpo’s managing director Roger...

New Vision has Cadbury Halloween treat boxed up

10 October 2012

Chocolate pumpkin is being sold at the Cadbury World shop, home to an exclusive range of handmade chocolate products, with packaging created by New...

Packaging – as seen on TV

10 October 2012

Such is the nature of modern communication mediums that it’s not hard to find packaging playing a central role in television commercials. I’ve...

Substrates & adhesives

Packaging wins prizes

10 October 2012

The new competition launched by consumer goods company Nestlé through its various confectionery brands shows how modern printed packaging has become...

Substrates & adhesives

Themed printed packaging; winter wonderland – part 1

01 October 2012

As I mentioned in an earlier blog, Christmas products are already appearing on the shelves of UK stores, more than three months in advance of...

Substrates & adhesives

Short-run printed packaging; spooky special – part 1

24 September 2012

With the summer over and autumn officially arriving in the UK, both according to the calendar and the wet weather, my wife and I were looking...

Substrates & adhesives

A supermarket odyssey; Pride of Britain Packaging Awards

24 September 2012

I started this blog as a way to visualize the way printed packaging would evolve in the UK over the course of summer 2012, a period that included...

Substrates & adhesives

Short-run printed packaging; a supermarket odyssey – part 14

24 September 2012

I’d said to myself that now autumn has arrived in the UK, and I’d been able to report back on the packaging I’d seen while traveling to the US, that...