TheDieline.com: Package Design

Catherine Malandrino for Cointreau

  

French design firm Betc Design has worked with Catherine Malandrino and Conintreau, both brought to the United Stated from France. They have teamed up to create the ultimate Conintreau gift bottle. Catherine Malandrino chose the Statue of Liberty as the best thing France ever gave us, to mark this limited edition bottle. 

The design is made with metal lace and Swarvoski crystals. It is available only between October and November at Colette in Paris, and is also available online.

More images out the outer gift packaging after the jump.

Bodkin Invitation

Roanne Adams designed this unusual invitation for Bodkin by Eviana Hartman.

About the invitation: "Bodkin is a woman's clothing collection designed by Eviana Hartman in accordance with the principles of sustainability.

The Bodkin Autumn/Winter '09 invitation influences ranged from the designer's ideologies to the context of the presentation as well as architect, Buckminster Fuller. The invitation arrived in the form of a tetrahedron containing an air plant with care instructions.

One of Bodkin's green principals is to work within existing spaces and with found materials. Therefore we held the fashion presentation and photo shoot simultaneously at the Horticultural Society of New York. The invite and look book were printed locally with 100% post-consumer recycled paper and eco-friendly inks."

More views after the jump.

(photo credit: Tina Tyrell, via FPO)

Ecolean Packaging

 

Ecolean is a new packaging alternative dubbed as "A Lighter Approach to Packaging". 

"Lightweight packaging is our answer to the demands of the liquid food industry and consumers asking for modern and clever packages. By using a minimal amount of raw material we create a lightweight package which combines low environmental impact with consumer convenience. Saving resources is saving the environment. That is why lightweight packaging has become a heavyweight argument.

The unique, pitcher-looking design has a generous face for consumer communication. It has a perfect surface for really high-quality print. Colours and sharpness will do justice to any communicative intention and will certainly draw the attention of a fast moving consumer. 

Saving resources is no longer just a matter of looking at the waste end of a package life cycle. Equally important are the resources used at its beginning. 

Ecolean uses less raw material from the start. Our packaging material is made from a thin plastic film, part plastic (PE and PP) and part chalk (40% by weight), one of nature’s own material. That adds up to a truly lightweight package that takes less energy to produce. 

Low waste volumes also save considerable resources in the waste handling process. Light and thin as the packaging is, you will find resource-saving arguments for it throughout the whole product life cycle."

Ecolean products are currently sold in over 30 countries around the world, not yet here in the United States, but lets hope it makes its way here soon.

More images of Ecolean after the jump.

Packaging For Snails, Made From Snail Poop.

 

 Yes, you read that right. This packaging was made out of dyed snail excrements, and it is designed to hold cooked snails. Thats a little strange right? Here is what product designer Manuel Jouvin has to say about it:

"During my researches, I pointed out that colored paper has an influence on color snail excrements. In partnership with Sylvie Pierru, a snailfarmer in Picardie (France), we created packagings made of snail excrements and destinated to cooked snails. They are envisaged in the molding cellulose process by replacing recyclable paper by snail dejections."

More images of this, um, interesting project, and the process, after the jump.

Nexus DVD Reel Packaging

Beccy McCray, director of creative development at Nexus Productions, says about their new DVD packaging: "We wanted to create something much more sustainable than the plastic jewel case and came up with the idea of a multi-functional and 100% recyclable cardboard box, inspired by the visual language and utilitarian functionality of the humble transit box."

Working with the design company, Julia, Nexus has realised that vision with a cleverly designed package which works not only as a DVD case but also the envelope, achieving the aim of reducing waste while not compromising on presentation.

(Continue to see a couple more views of this box.)

Clementine Art Supplies

 

 

These children's art supplies by Clementine Art immediately stood out on the shelves of Whole Foods. All of the products are non-toxic and the packaging is composed of 80% post consumer recycled and reusable materials.

See a couple more after the jump.

Kahina - Giving Beauty

Aimee Majoros sent in these lovely bottles of Kahina by Giving Beauty. Giving Beauty is a new organic beauty line that uses ingredients from women's cooperatives around the world and donates a portion of profits back to the women who provide those materials. Some interesting background on the Kahina products specifically:

Kahina, which is based on 100% organic argan oil sourced from the women's cooperatives of Morocco, is the first line of products to be released under the Giving Beauty label...

Morocco is the only place in the world where the argan trees, from which the oil is harvested, grow. Kahina is actually the name of a Berber queen and prophetess... a heroine to the Berber women and represents empowerment and vision for women worldwide.

The beautiful Kahina packaging was designed by Michael Souter of Territory Brands and incorporates signatures from the mostly illiterate women in the co-op. (Personally I love the stark simplicity combined with the personal touch. It has meaning, but it's also subtle and elegant enough to grace any countertop.)

With a focus on sustainability, the Kahina product packaging is created from recycled materials and the bottles are made from recyclable violet glass, which also helps preserve the natural ingredients inside the products.

Samsung Reclaim

The new Samsung Reclaim is being billed as "the first phone in the U.S. constructed from eco-friendly bio-plastic materials": 

"Made from 80 percent recyclable materials, Samsung Reclaim is a feature-rich messaging phone that offers environmentally conscious customers a perfect blend of responsibility without sacrificing the latest in network speeds and must-have features.

Its bio-plastic material, made from corn, makes up 40 percent of the Reclaim’s outer casing. Samsung Reclaim is free of polyvinyl chloride (PVC), phthalates, and nearly free of brominated flame retardants (BFR): three materials commonly targeted on green electronics guidelines.

The outer packaging and the phone tray inside the box are made from 70 percent recycled materials. The images and text on the box as well as the phone warranty information are printed with soy-based ink.

The typical thick paper user manual has been replaced with a virtual manual that users can access online."