by Melissa Simmerman | May 20, 2025 | Conference Recap, CPG Trends, Structural Design
What We Loved and What We Missed at Sweets & Snacks 2025 Stop scrolling! We aren’t here to rehash what’s already been shared many, many times regarding Sweets & Snacks 2025. Lots of good, smart folks have posted photos, observations, insights, and hot...
by Melissa Simmerman | Mar 5, 2025 | CPG Trends, Packaging Design
Packaging Design It’s 2025.This CPG Packaging Deserves a Re-Design Melissa Simmerman Sr. Director, Growth & Strategy March 6, 2025 Inspired by the good folks at IDEO—and in the mood for some fresh, blue-sky thinking, being that it’s a whole new year—we asked...
by Melissa Simmerman | Dec 13, 2024 | CPG Trends, Inspiration, Packaging Design
Trends 24 from ’24:The Conversations, Trends, and Projects That Made Our Year Melissa SimmermanSr. Director, Growth & Strategy December 13, 2024 Are we about to get on the year-in-rewind bandwagon? Obviously! Call it our version of #Wrapped without the psychedelic...
by Melissa Simmerman | Oct 3, 2024 | Brand Strategy, CPG Trends, Inspiration, Packaging Design, Thought Leadership
Instant Impact: Packaging Design at the Speed of TikTok Even if you aren’t on TikTok, you’re being influenced by it every day. The chokehold it has on consumer culture is undeniable, and if you are in the business of selling anything to anyone, you...
by Ali Noe | Jun 26, 2024 | CPG Trends, Innovation, Packaging Design, Prototyping, Realization, Thought Leadership
From Pixels to Prototypes: The Role of Physical Design in a Digital Age With the emergence of AI tools, the latest cultural shift has brought us more into a digital age than ever before. From working at home to streaming our media, the introductory experience...
by Bart Laube | May 16, 2024 | CPG Trends, Inspiration, Packaging Design
Five Ways Better-for-You Food Packaging is Changing Brand Design Last year, we looked at five emerging trends in packaging design within the exploding better-for-you food and beverage category. We believed then, and still do, that BFY is setting the trends...
