Gizmodo reports a new glass shaped wine package by Wine Innovations via CrunchGear. First Impression This is indeed a consumer centric innovation. It is significantly superior to drinking wine from carton containers offered in some countries. Any Cons? Wine being an alcoholic beverage, there is little concern regarding the asepticity of the product. Regarding the […]

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We have come across a new milk bottle design for Al Rawabi, by Packlab Partners. [Thanks to Kristina / ambalaj.se.] This design, while touching many aspects of good package design, highlights the creative tension between good design, and good usability. Initial Observations We assume that this is an HDPE package. There is a built-in handle […]

The Wall Street Journal reports today that Nestlé is suing Sara Lee for patent infringement on its Nespresso capsules. Nespresso machines and capsules have been around for 25 years. As a business, Nespresso has grown to $2.6 Billion, annually.

Heineken introduced customized bottle designs, not unlike what Jones Cola did several years ago. You can design, share, and order your six-pack online for €29.99. Design yours here. Find our design here. [Fast Company] ©2010 PackageRepublic.com. All Rights Reserved.

Product usability is important in any product category. For high involvement products like computers and cell phones, product usability can make or break a company’s future. As a company long obsessed with product usability, Apple is a great example. Similarly, the lack of proper product usability can put a company out of business. Consider the […]

Plastiki is continuing its voyage across the Pacific ocean. They are now on their 85th day, near Tuvalu. The 60 foot boat was built from used plastic bottles. You can watch founder David De Rothschild talk about the endeavor above. You can find more pictures on flicker. ©2010 PackageRepublic.com. All Rights Reserved.

We had covered the Sun Chips compostable chip package on April 25, 2010. You can find the review here and its advertisement here. One of the areas of interest with that package was its matte finish, which we had praised. There are a number of packages with even more matte finishes arriving in the marketplace, […]

With a variety of different aluminum bottles arriving in the market, we decided to look at Sprite’s 250 ml aluminum bottle. Initial Impressions This package looks cool, which is why it exists, namely to target younger demographics. However, the poor usability of small and micro portion sizes is a disadvantage. In addition, the higher use […]