Your Ultimate Guide to Holiday Packaging
Whether you’re a brick-and-mortar retailer or an e-commerce business, your product packaging strategy for the upcoming holiday season should be carefully evaluated to ensure you’re getting the...
View ArticleThe Opaque World of Packaging Inks
Man alive, everyone’s talking about packaging inks these days. Soy-based this, recyclable that. Where did it come from, and does it matter? Is it all just greenwashing to make companies feel better...
View ArticleCreative and Sustainable Packaging Designs
Sustainability is the hot trend these days, and should be as long as humans have a need for packaging. Just look at the surge in influencer packaging in recent years. Few people are going to be drawn...
View ArticleEverything You Need to Know About Packaging Glue
While ink is a much-talked about topic these days, with everyone using soy ink and such, packaging glues are even more invisible—but obviously just as important. Just like if a baseball player slips...
View ArticleStructural Packaging Engineering: Why It’s the Biggest Driver for Sustainability
Structural packaging engineering creates the canvas you can paint your beautiful graphics on, if you have them, or leave the package elegantly bare and natural looking. It is the literal building...
View ArticleHow to Design Cosmetic and Beauty Packaging in a Niche World
Cosmetic and beauty packaging designs used to be simple: trends came in, stayed hot, and eventually were replaced, with some brands riding the waves and some sticking to their roots. While that last...
View ArticleThe Premium Packaging Team: Robin Tan
From Taiwan to the US, Robin Tan feels like he has two cultures in his head. The co-founder and managing director of business development at Zenpack uses his multicultural upbringing to bridge the gap...
View Article10 Surprising and Innovative Uses of Paper Packaging
How many of us had to cut apart a brown paper grocery bag on the first day of school every year in junior high? Covering new-old textbooks to prevent ruin became a first-time paper packaging...
View ArticlePharmaceutical Packaging Materials and Design
Pharmaceutical packaging is different from pretty much every other industry in one very notable way: the stress customers feel when they use it. At least that’s what Leo Chao, the Creative Director at...
View ArticleInfluencing Consumer Behavior Through Packaging
Packaging is advertising, branding, protection, recognition. It drives consumer behavior. Just as the advertising industry created demand for orange juice and shiny rocks, designers also drive and...
View ArticleThe Premium Packaging Team: Jessica Diatlo
If you’re new to custom and sustainable packaging, Jessica Diatlo just might be the person you want to talk to. As the Director of Business Development at Zenpack, Diatlo spends her days coordinating...
View ArticleBig, Bold, and Sustainable: Our 2024 Packaging Trends
It’s that time of year again: prediction season. Some of these are actual trends, and they’ll fall out of favor soon enough. And some are actually the next big thing, here to stick around. Together...
View ArticleHow Much Does Eco-Friendly Packaging Cost?
Uffda. The cost of eco-friendly packaging? “It’s an easy question to ask, but very difficult to answer,” said Robin Tan, Managing Director and Co-founder of Zenpack. While it might seem simple on the...
View ArticleThe Definitive Guide to Biodegradable vs. Compostable
This is something that’s brought up constantly when people talk about sustainability, and it’s often a marker of how much they pay attention to it: the interchangeability or not of the words...
View ArticleThe Premium Packaging Team: Jeff Lin
Meet Jeff Lin, president and co-founder of Zenpack. From finding manufacturers in Asia to exploring new materials and just generally seeing how many businesses he can start, helping people is at the...
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