01/10/2015

For a child’s smile: SelfPackaging in Cambodia

At SelfPacking, our ecommerce site, we make gift boxes. It would seem that this is not something that would interest an NGO which aims to help the most disadvantaged children in Cambodia. However, this is not the case. Any contribution is very well recieved in these cases, so without a moments hes

15/09/2015

Double exhibition, double dose of love. The photographs of Andreas Lie

Double exhibition is a photographic technique which consists of taking two or more shots in one go, with the idea that all the photos will overlap in one single image. With anologue photography it was possible to present the same still a number of times, which was certainly very complicated but the

27/08/2015

Packaging design books

How many of you knew that Garrofé has published packaging design books? Hmm, not alot, we suppose... So our boss hasn't won a booker prize yet, but we're not far off. He has already had 5 books published, in which the massive hits Structural Packaging, Structural Displays and Structural Greeting

29/07/2015

Paper experiments

At The Dieline we found this very interesting creative exercise carried out by students of packaging at Sylvain Allard: turn a single sheet of white paper in the most original packaging as possible for a bottle. Problems such as marketing or transporting the product were not raised; the only thing

01/10/2013

All copies of Structural Greetings completely sold out

The first was Structural Packaging, a complimation of creative packaging designs, downloadable on the accompanying CD. It reached a mere 100,000 units in sales, prompting its translation into Chinese, English and Italian. Following this success, we launched the publication