Evoilàbel – the Label Design Contest launched by Epson in collaboration with Associazione Nazionale Donne dell’Olio and Nexidia

Epson Italia, in collaboration with Associazione Nazionale Donne dell’Olio and Nexidia, has launched EVOilàbel 2025, a graphic design contest for the best EVO oil label, open to communication agencies and freelance designers who wish to express their creativity in one of the most significant sectors of the Italian economy, with a special focus on gender equality.

Mainetti presents Clear Paper at Avant-Garde 2025

In sustainable packaging industry, an innovation comes out that combines transparency and functionality: a revolutionary material that offers the visual clarity of plastic, but it is made of 100% 45- day biodegradable cellulose.

Sponsored: Tai Chi Solutions Ltd. – passionate about beautiful packaging

From May 13 to 15, 2025, Packaging Première & PCD Milan, the reference event for deluxe packaging will be back. This edition will offer new perspectives and inspirations, driven by the artistic vision of Andrea Filippi and Gabriele Moschin, experts in integrating Artificial Intelligence in their artworks

James Cropper announces brand evolution – strengthening new structure through one identity and vision

Today, James Cropper, the global market leader in advanced materials and paper products, unveiled its new brand identity. The company has undergone a complete brand refresh to mark the unification of James Cropper Speciality Paper, Colourform, and Technical Fibre Products under one company name of James Cropper. The new brand architecture will be represented as two market facing divisions of James Cropper Paper & Packaging and James Cropper Advanced Materials to support the group’s accelerated growth strategy.

Feel the nature: PEBBLE and the stone effect by Lumson

Tickling the senses, and we are not just talking about smell and sight but also touch, is a crucial aspect in the cosmetics world. The creation of a sensorial tactile expression transcends the norms of traditional packaging and stimulates new sensations to enrich the consumer’s experience, thus giving new opportunities to brands. A perfect example is offered by Lumson with Pebble: the glass jar of the Romantica collection takes on a new identity, leading back to the world of nature.

Packaging Première & PCD Milan 2024: a successful edition

Three days of creativity, sustainability, and innovation: the 2024 edition of Packaging Première & PCD Milan, the leading event in luxury packaging for the fashion, beauty, jewelry, fine food, and wine & spirits sectors, ends today. The event took place in Milan from May 21 to 23 at Allianz MiCo.

Fine craftsmanship and perfumery. The new direction of fragrance packaging.

Developments in the packaging of niche perfumery, and also of selective perfumery, seek to maintain the high reproducibility of bottles for economies of scale on the one hand, while looking for increasingly significant characterisation and exclusivity on the other.
While the story of a perfume incorporates all its elements, it increasingly starts with the bottle. The design of a bottle comes much earlier than that of its contents.

Innovative and sustainable materials: find inspiration in Materially’s materials library at Packaging Première & PCD Milan

Materially

Packaging Première & PCD Milan 2024 partners with Materially, the reference point in Italy in the search for innovative and sustainable materials for the manufacturing industry and for every design-driven application. Visitors and exhibitors will discover some of the most innovative and sustainable materials in Materially’s materials library at the event. An unmissable occasion to find inspiration.

Lume – Twist, Turn and Spin: Advision’s project for Avant-Garde 2024

Lume Spin is another incarnation of the multifaceted Lume project, an idea that takes shape and becomes a message. A simple game, a hand-painted spinning top, becomes the perfect pretext to tell the story of human creativity and its unique ability to break the mould. From a whirlwind of thoughts to a hand-painted spinning top, through an endless chain of events: just join in and let the top spin. The next stroke of genius is just a fingertip away.