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Boxed Reduction

Brands are redesigning essential packaging to cut down on waste

Implications - While protective packaging is an inevitable component of consumption, brands are seeking out inventive designs that reduce waste. This improves brand perception, but also reduces costs and increases the efficiency of the packaging itself. This indicates a slow, but steady shift – from a focus on quick topical fixes where brands and the environment are concerned, to more detail-oriented, long-term thinking.
Workshop Question - How can your brand contribute to simple but long-term fixes in servicing pro-environment causes?
Trend Themes
1. Sustainable Packaging - Brands are seeking to reduce waste and improve brand perception through inventive packaging designs using natural, recyclable materials.
2. Multi-functional Packaging - Innovative designs for packaging products that are multi-functional and cater to the instinctual needs of both humans and animals to reduce waste and cut down on costs.
3. Unboxing Experience - Brands are innovating in the unboxing experience to enable quick and easy use of products, while also focusing on aesthetics and the ability to be repurposed.
Industry Implications
1. Sustainability Industry - Innovations in sustainable packaging are driving the growth of the sustainability industry and the demand for eco-friendly solutions.
2. E-commerce Industry - Innovative packaging designs, such as those catered towards the eCommerce industry, offer waste-reducing solutions that can improve the efficiency and economics of online shopping.
3. Consumer Electronics Industry - The focus on multi-functional and easy-to-use packaging designs in the consumer electronics industry provides compelling opportunities for innovations in product design and packaging solutions.
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Featured Examples

Product-Cradling Packaging
Product-Cradling Packaging
This Innovative eCommerce Package Design Requires No Bubble Wrap
The Better with Less design challenge by Metsä Board aims to uncover functional, environmentally friendly and functional packaging solutions—and this year’s winning design was submitted... MORE
Waste-Reduction Shoe Boxes
Waste-Reduction Shoe Boxes
Matadog Design Has Created a More Eco-Friendly Shoe Box
Andreas Kioroglou, the founder of the design studio Matadog Design spent two years creating a shoe box that is more functional than those often offered by brands, while simultaneously being much... MORE
Ready-to-Use Speaker Packages
Ready-to-Use Speaker Packages
Sonos' Premium Speaker Packaging Enables Quick Listening
The process of unboxing different kinds of technology products often involves the removal of many cords, plastic bags and molded trays, but Sonos created its Playbase speaker packaging to allow for... MORE
Purpose-Built Cardboard Cat Toys
Purpose-Built Cardboard Cat Toys
'Cat in the Box' Offers Toys for Cats Who Love Cardboard
It’s really difficult to tell whether cats are very stupid or very smart, but ‘Cat in the Box’ is a company that adorably banks on the former. The brand sells specially made cat... MORE
Vase-Like Liquor Bottles
Vase-Like Liquor Bottles
WuDu Liquor's Packaging Was Designed to Be Cleverly Repurposed After Use
There is a great deal of effort that goes into the creation of most liquor bottles, but extra care and attention went into the design of WuDu Liquor by Chinese agency ShenZhen Lingyun Creative.... MORE
play_circle_filledInsulating Wooden Boxes
Insulating Wooden Boxes
The 'WooBox' is an Eco-Friendly Alternative to Styrofoam Packaging
Polystyrene, or styrofoam packaging, is often used for transporting fresh food because it is cost-effective, easily produced and excellent for insulating—but it is not a material that is friendly... MORE

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