Packaging is one of the most wasteful products in our homes,  and commonly it is only used once.  The Paper Bottle is a pioneering project that reveals opportunities and challenges in circular design.

The next Circular Design HOW TO? session,  hosted by the Estonian Design Center,  will take place on April 15 at 15:00 – 16:30 (GMT+1).

Tune in to hear our own Kinge Gardien talk about Paboco (The Paper Bottle Company) and how our collaborative approach can create circular design solutions.

In January,  we submitted our entries for the Guldägget Award – the oldest and largest communication competition in Sweden,  celebrating its 60th birthday this year.  We have now received the fantastic news that we are nominated in the category Packaging design for our work on the Absolut Paper project,  with client Pernod Ricard.

Honoured and proud,  we are looking forward to the Guldägget gala on May 19th,  when the winners will be announced.

Our friends at Carlsberg wanted to broaden the Ramlösa selection with a functional water,  boosted with extracts from nature.

We’re proud to have been a part of creating the name,  position,  design and packaging of this slim-can with a straightforward,  yet personal and tasteful,  feel.

Another prestigious jury assignment for our Creative Director and Head of Design Isabelle Dahlborg-Lidström.  This year she joins the Guldägget jury as chairwoman for the category Packaging Design. 

Celebrating 60 years,  Guldägget (The Gold Egg Award) is the oldest and largest communication competition in Sweden.  Since the start in 1961 it has grown and become an ever wider competition that now covers most of what can be called communication.  With a purpose to raise the level of the creative standard,  Guldägget draws attention to the best advertisements at present and leads the industry forward.  The winners of this year’s edition will be announced around easter.

Cap & Design sat down with Isabelle,  and a few fellow jury members,  for five quick questions about the competition.

Finally, it’s here! The Dieline Plastic Free Innovation Award for our work with Pearl paper pods – a fiber-based alternative to plastic sample packets, developed together with BillerudKorsnäs and Syntegon.

The award is given out in conjunction with non-profit organisation A Plastic Planet. We are honoured by the words of APP co-founder Sian Sutherland,

“Every year, humans produce almost a trillion little plastic packets. Single-serve, single-use sachets of ketchup, soy sauce, shampoo and detergent, face wipes, the list is endless. […] The plastic packet sachet has always been considered too hard to replace. This is exactly how our future should look. Aspirational, beautiful, and best of all, using a sustainable material nature can easily handle.”

To read more about Pearl – read full case here.

We are looking for a social, curious and structured Project Manager, interested in working with brand, strategy and marketing projects. You will be joining our Brand and Transformation team to work with clients from all over the world.

Read more about the opportunity here – and apply today!

We are once again proud to announce that our Head of Design and Creative Director, Isabelle Dahlborg Lidström, will be part of the jury for the 2021 iF Design Awards. Read more about the award and the highly esteemed international panel of experts here.

First awarded in 1953, the iF Design Award is a world-renowned design competition and a symbol of outstanding design achievements that focuses on the innovative power of design. Every year it puts companies, designers, agencies and architects to the test in the following disciplines: Product, Packaging, Communication, Interior Architecture, Professional Concept, Service Design and Architecture.

All finalists will be invited to the Final Jury, where about 50 design experts will come together in Berlin in March 2021 to select the winners.

Proud to announce that our partner Syntegon was honoured by The German Packaging Institute (Deutsches Verpackungsinstitut) for their focus on sustainable and intelligent technologies – winning the German Packaging Awards 2020, in the category ”Packaging Machines”.

The TPU1000 form, fill and seal machine for 3D formable, paper-based packaging material enables a wide range of possibilities for innovative, sustainable portion packs made of fiber-based material.

The packaging system is a result from a collaboration between Grow, BillerudKorsnäs and PackZ that started three years ago with the “Grow” concept in the pursuit of offering an alternative to single use packaging. Together we offer proof of concept projects to brands in order to qualify the technology and commercial applications enabled by the system before investment decisions.

More information available through either of the partners in the project. For more information from Grow contact Liselotte Tingvall at liselotte@grow.eu.

Svensk Fastighetsförmedling is one of the leading Swedish real estate agents. Aiming to drive new growth in a traditional industry, they hired us to re-define their brand and find a way to innovate their service offering. Insight, trend analysis, communications, brand strategy, visual identity, innovation strategy and service development are all parts of this transformation journey.

At Grow, we are proud to contribute to better solutions. Today, BillerudKorsnäs is launching Flow Wrap, a paper-based packaging solution with a natural flow. Enabling a shift from plastic to renewable and recyclable materials – challenging the standard in confectionery and bakery packaging.

Read the full press release here.