Packaging Mid Sweden Award was founded by Packaging Mid Sweden, Åkroken Science Park AB, Mid Sweden University and SCA Packaging Sweden AB, to stimulate the development of packaging concepts for the future. The competition gained great interest all over Sweden ...Read More
The PACKLAB. department at the Lahti Institute of Design will be represented in the Scandinavia's biggest packaging fair Scanpack, scheduled to take place on 20th to 23rd October in The Swedish Exhibition Centre, Göteborg, Sweden. The exhibition booth will be located at the ...Read More
In 2008 Anni Nykänen won four awards for her Popcorn concept. Three of them European student design awards at the IOP: Student Starpack Awards. The Gold, Best in Show Award, Marks & Spencers / Korsnas Frovi Sponsored Award as ...Read More
A novel and imaginative milk pack stole the show at Student Starpack 2009, winning Supreme Gold and a Gold Star for Roman Klementsov, of Finland's Lahti Institute of Design. The second year student in product design's innovative PET concept bottle ...Read More
The results of the Grafia association's Best of the Year 2008 competition in advertising and graphic design were announced at a gala event to be held at Telakkastudio in Helsinki on 2 April 2009, and the works will be on ...Read More
Easy to Open invention competition, jointly organised by the Finnish Rheumatism Association and the Foundation for Finnish Inventions, culminated in the award ceremony on 31 March 2009. The prizes were awarded in connection with Tekes' annual Futupack seminar in Espoo, ...Read More
'The Pro Carton Nordica Design Competition' for Students in 2008 will be remembered for 'functional and ingenious refinement' of existing packaging ideas so say this years judges. Out of the four possible awards up for grabs three of them went ...Read More
Students from PACKLAB and the Lahti Institute of Design showcase their work at the 1:1 PROTOTYPES exhibition at the Artek Esplanadi store from the 28th of January to the 14th of February 2009. The exhibition shows a selected set of ...Read More
Magazine Packnaden (Sweden) by Peter Nygren (English) In fact we only have one small problem, and that is that we are so often traveling to receive prizes in design competitions. He says it jokingly and with a twinkle in his eye, the combination of designut ...Read More
As part of their on-going commitment to packaging development and supporting the designers of the future, Korsnäs has once again co-sponsored the Student Starpack Awards in the UK, together with the leading UK retailer Marks & Spencer. This year M&S and ...Read More
Oriflame, The Arena Packaging Design Award, awarded Saana Väisänen & Sipuliina Kinanen for their second place concept of magnetic cosmetic packaging. [link] Packaging Arena / Pacsem Read More
Eco-efficiency of packages can be significantly improved by new types of packaging. This was clearly demonstrated by the winners of the 2008 Food Packaging Design Awards. Stora Enso and the University of Art and Design Helsinki in Finland have announced the ...Read More
Second prize: Thomas Åkerfelt - Fishy The classic herring medium in glass jars are subject to change packaging. The benefits are simpler and easier handling in the purchase, beating nutrient use efficiency, packaging and environmentally friendly recycling. The jury believes ...Read More
The credit crunch, rising energy prices and increasing inflation are words that few want to hear or acknowledge, yet we must deal with them. Employers and employees alike need to make sensible, rational decisions to plan for a future of ...Read More
Finland's Lahti Institute of Design packaging and brand design department wins the Students Starpack Awards based in the UK for the second year running. Institute of Packaging, European Packaging Design Awards allowed students from Finland to compete and beat of some of ...Read More
Finnish-Swedish Chamber of Commerce in Stockholm has organised a trip to Finland for Swedish journalists. Peter Nygren from the Magazine Packmarknaden interviewed Ian Rooney to discuss the future of packaging design in Finland. An article will shortly be released. Read More
Visual identity for Artek exhibition "Arjen ilme" in Helsinki has received a honourary mention in the Vuoden huiput 2007-competition. Work was made by Packlab student Samuel Tabermann in co-operation with graphic design student Laura Väinölä. [link] Design Forum Finland Read More
This is the third time that Pro Carton has invited Nordic design students to compete in creating new forms of packaging. Every year the quality of the entries goes up. “The entries are impressive and even some of them that ...Read More
Students from Packlab and the Lahti Institute of Design showcase their work in Japan at the Toyama University in Toyama from the 21 st to the 29th of January 2008. Read More
Certificate of Outstanding Service Lahti University of Applied Sciences has awarded Marja Lampainen in December 2007 for her work and contribution at the Lahti Institute of Design for over 2 decades. For the past 8 years Marja has managed the Packaging ...Read More
