Episodes

Have you ever wanted to own a brand you've designed for? Or at least have a partial ownership in its success? Lilli Keinaenen explains how designing packaging for a cannabis brand led to having an equity stake in Green Bee Botanicals. We discuss creative billing, imposter syndrome, the complexities of cannabis packaging, and a smelly fish challenge on TikTok. Learn more about Change Maker Creative here. Connect with Lilli on LinkedIn Haven't connected with Evelio on LinkedIn yet? Follow him to g...

Do you want to increase sales with your packaging design? Steve Lamoureux shares how the data analyzed by Designalytics can refine a brief and drive sales based on consumer feedback during the design process. Don't assume you know what consumers want before you design, find out why they buy, where they buy, and what's important to them. You can use this information to create packaging that resonates with consumers and drives sales. With Designalytics, you can create packaging that sells. Click h...

You don't have time to learn CAD or some other 3D program, right? Well now you can just log in and create dielines and renders from anywhere with PACDORA.com In this episode I speak to Yu Wang about Pacdora and how they solve the first obstacle in packaging design - making packaging dielines. If you're like most of us, we design packaging graphics and use illustrator to create dielines. Ye, there are packaging engineers and specialists that jump right into CAD and create efficient dielines, but ...

Today we’re talking to Creative Director Jaime Cabrera, his book What’s the Big Idea - An Indispensable Guide to Becoming a Kick-ass Creative Director - Available now on Amazon. You can check out the link in the show notes. So what does it take to be a creative director, how do you get there, and how to manage up to your creative director as a junior designer. Jaime’s book is meant to be for anyone aspiring to be a Creative Director or maybe in your first year as one. The truth is that if you do...

If you've ever said I'm a designer, not a salesperson, you're probably not wrong, but you're for sure not right. Graphic designers, packaging designers, really any type of designer is a sales person. What you're creating has to sell an idea, a product, a service, something. But before you get the chance to sell to the end user, you have to sell your concept to your internal team and then to your external client. Dennis Whalen, creative sales rockstar that he is lays out what you need to know to ...

Colienne Regout of The Unboxing Your Packaging Podcast interviewed Evelio Mattos about his podcast, design purpose, and what sustainable packaging needs to work. This is an abbreviated episode, if you'd like to listen to the full episode with Colienne, you can listen here . Watch the episode on Youtube Follow Evelio on LinkedIn And catch the Friday Packaging Class on LinkedIn Live or watch it on your own time on Youtube.

Packaging Unboxd and The People of Packaging team up to unbox the $150 bottle of Gold Fashioned from Sunday's finest along with Co-founder Robert Haynes and Damiane Nickles. Color, materials, production processes, as well as why each design decision was made is explained in this episode as we enjoy ourselves a few Gold Fashions. Learn how delayed gratification designed into packaging can increase consumer anticipation and drive brand affinity. Or how panels in packaging can be used to tell an ex...

What is B Corp Certification? Should design agencies get B Corp certification? And what are the benefits, or why should you get B Corp certified? Here Design, shares all of these answers and helps us understand why you should consider B Corp certification for your future. Episode Links: B Corp Certification Here Design - - -

In Time Re:Imagined, three incredibly rare whiskies, the Glenfiddich 50, 40, and 30 Year Old single malts are uniquely presented as bespoke art, conceptually designed and created by Here Design. Each expression links back to an individual liquid story and technical truth by representing different types of time; Simultaneous, Cumulative and Suspended.A $50,000 product doesn't have to compete on shelf with other luxury goods, you know if you can afford it and you want it, you're going to get it. ...

This mind blowing mono-material packaging design makes you question what you thought you knew about molded fiber and product packaging manufacturing. The team at Colourform (yes, with a U), are questioning why everything is overpackaged and how to reduce materials and packaging components to deliver fresh take on branding and what it means to package something. Their award winning brand building molded fiber designs challenge everything from how to package a bottle and cosmetics, to fragrance an...