In 2023, the world of packaging design is breaking wide open, with a strong emphasis on all things bold and experimental. Want your products to stand out in this increasingly showy environment? Read on! First, we should acknowledge that creating great labels for product packages can be an exercise in contradictions. On the one hand, … Continued
Who knew back in the 1960s when passionate small-scale producers started brewing that craft beer would account for nearly 30% of beer sales? Indeed, it’s a very good time to be a craft brewery. After a concerning dip over the pandemic, when bars and restaurants were temporarily shuttered, craft beer trends are back with a … Continued
RICHMOND, B.C., 2022 — Great Little Box Company/ Ideon Packaging (GLBC) is proud to announce they have won 1st place at the Tag and Label Manufacturers Institute (TLMI) 45th Annual Label Awards Competition. They were recognized at TLMI’s 2022 annual meeting and award ceremony this week. The TLMI Annual Awards Competition aims to stimulate innovative printing … Continued
This year—2022—marked the 12th year in a row that the US spirits industry saw major expansion. Globally, over the next five years, we can expect the industry to grow by 7.58%. If you work in spirits, you already know: the future is bright and very busy. As a labels and packaging partner to many spirits … Continued
Over the course of five posts (links to the entire blog series is posted below), we told the fictional but familiar-to-us story of Alana Marshall and Jacob Franchi, co-founders of a small cocktail mix company. In this story, they start out with an idea and end up with a super-successful company doing business with major … Continued
Are you tasked with designing a wine label or hiring a designer to do it for you? If so, do you know what you need to do to compel customers to pick up your bottle from the shelf? After all, that’s what designing a wine label is all about: nailing the details that make your … Continued
This is Part Five of a series telling the (fictional but familiar-to-us) story of Alana Marshall and Jacob Franchi, co-founders of a small spirited cocktail mix company. To catch up on the blog series, scroll down for all of the links. We wanted to tell Alana and Jacob’s story for one good reason: to support … Continued
This is Part Four of a series telling the (fictional but familiar-to-us) story of Alana Marshall and Jacob Franchi, co-founders of a small cocktail mix company. (Here’s Part One, Part Two, and Part Three). Why tell this particular story? Well, because we’ve worked with thousands of entrepreneurs, we’re pretty intimately familiar with what they go … Continued
This is Part Three of a series telling the (fictional but familiar-to-us) story of Alana Marshall and Jacob Franchi, co-founders of a small cocktail mix company. We cover their whole journey, including their big idea, start-up experience, partnership with retail/distribution, rise to success, and expansion. (Here’s Part One and Part Two!). We decided to create … Continued
RICHMOND, B.C., 2021 — Great Little Box Company/ Ideon Packaging (GLBC) is proud to announce they have won 2nd place at the Tag and Label Manufacturers Institute (TLMI) 44th Annual Label Awards Competition. The TLMI Annual Awards Competition aims to stimulate innovative printing and to recognize technical achievement in all areas of the narrow web … Continued