Packaging stockholm 09 12

Packaging design Lecture by Anne Odling-Smee Konstfack University, Stockholm September 2012

An atom

Electrons

1 Excess packaging 2 Recycled packaging 3 Stacking 4 Packaging in context 5 Digital packaging 6 Nice packaging

1 Excess packaging

Americans total yearly waste would fill a convoy of garbage trucks long enough to wrap around the Earth six times and reach halfway to the moon. (approx 222 million tonnes)

More often than not, recycling materials are as costly, if not more costly, than obtaining products straight from their virgin sources: It costs more money to recycle the trash of New York City than it does to dispose of it in a landfill. The New York Times

2 Recycled packaging

3 Stacking

4 Packaging in context

Whenever we talk about biodesign we should bear in mind how amazingly superior a spider s web is to any load-bearing structure man has made.

From this insight, we should look to the superiority of nature for the solutions. If we want to tackle a new task in the studio, then it s best to go outside first and look at what millenia-old answers there may already be to the problem.

Luigi Colani, 2007

5 Digital packaging

6 Nice packaging ideas

Š British Museum