Projects and designer

Beverage cans create new consumption occasions for the famous Italian spring water brand.

Milan, 13 May 2019. The winners of the Best Packaging 2019 contest were announced during the event entitled “Packaging of the future and environmental sustainability - Best Packaging 2019” organised by H-FARM and La Repubblica in collaboration with Conai and the Italian Institute of Packaging.

A water with superior flavour, winner of a Taste Award, deserves to become well-known far beyond the borders of its country of origin. That’s why Eurowaterland decided to send its brand Epirus Kostilatas Springs on a long journey, taking it from the green Athamanian Mountains to the hot terrains of Saudi Arabia.

Once upon a time there was a city, with its streets, shops and talents... But attentive readers will notice that Milan still exists, and still has much to offer (maybe even more), if only they let themselves wonder at the stories of Pixartprinting, in a journey of historic signage and contemporary representation, a harmony of somber nostalgia and elegant practical sense.

Common principles for a conscientious design, production and use of packaging.
The project of the ETHICAL PACKAGING CHARTER, very briefly, has the objective of promoting a correct “packaging culture”, but also bearing witness to the attention of the world of packaging towards the needs and demands of consumers (conscientious citizens, made ever more aware by the values expressed by the goods…

A packaging must always come to terms with the product it contains, especially in the field of cosmetics. But what is hidden behind a simple “blink of an eye”? Answers from Renato Ancorotti, president of Ancorotti Group, an R&D leader that creates makeup and skincare products for the most important international brands.

We have to stop pitying ourselves, moaning the whole time, underrating Italy’s wonders.
We are a strange people, combining genius with rulelessness, artfulness and skill, and amidst all the beauty that surrounds us. We are Italians, we are made that way.
Editorial by Sonia Pedrazzini

Poste Italiane too bears witness to the fact that the container is evermore important, having recently brought out a 100,000 piece, limited edition, highly special “collectors” pack. An Artist’s Pack, that recounts, in the style of Giuseppe Stampone, a trip across Italy by way of the most significant monuments, personalities, myths and symbols of the “Bel Paese”.

The perfumes of the Maison Martin Margiela’s Replica collection have been conceived to capture thoughts and emotions.

What do Chanel No. 5 and the history of art have in common? Can a bottle of perfume be considered a sculpture? Is the most expensive Eau de Voilette in the world a play on words? A bizarre journey through the paradoxes of the art of perfume and perfumes of art. Marco Senaldi

Founded in 1729, Ruinart is the oldest champagne producer in the world.
The first to use ancient caves carved out of the stone beneath the city of Reims in order to age its wines. The first to store its bottles, starting in the 18th century, in wooden crates and the first to reinstate the traditional champagne bottle.

Olive oil, tarallucci and stamps are the ingredients of a 100% Made in Italy project. Born out of a passion for design, typography and good food, Typuglia is a young brand proposing artistically “dressed” Apulian gastronomic delights.

With registration officially opened in October, the 2014 Packaging Oscar, edition no. 57, in cooperation with the Design School of the Milan Polytechnic, will centre on the theme of Quality Design.

Lucaprint wins the Carton Award 2013 for the category Shelf Ready & Display Packaging, with a line of counter displays made for Coverit Srl, with Stora Enso board and graphics by Fabrizio Lucchini.

The basic pleasure of elegance and excellence: Sappi Fine Paper Europe and the German group Achilles (finishing) work together to make something that stirs the heart. What results is “animi” by Julia John, a young perfumer who has managed to make reality out of an idea originally conceived in kindergarten.

Ever better represented at PCD the offer of software for designing and managing workflow.

Sleever International attended both PCD and ADF with dedicated stands: In the first case, offering a renewed range of high visual impact sleeves and the second with the developed solutions for aerosol packaging, primarily in the pharmaceutical and nutraceutical sectors.

The multi-layer strips developed by the Lameplast Group come in six different lines, by exploiting the properties of novel combinations of plastics which in various ways meet the needs of users to increase barrier properties, improve single-dose compressabilty, play with color hues without interfering with the content...

Sublimation is the hot transfer of a printed image on a special substrate onto a surface to be decorated.

At PCD Dassault Systèmes presented the latest 3D Experience solution designed for packaging professionals and held two conferences on numerical simulation of aerosol systems and related sprays, and on the management and of specifications and development of packaging.