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Last week Design Week published their annual survey of UK design agencies. This covers company turnovers, fee income and staff numbers a cross all design disciplines. Path were named No.22 in the Packaging and Branding category earlier in the year and we have just been name 68 across all agencies. This is great news for ...
Read moreTrend Spot: Play with your food?
by Amy Barclay In the past couple years have you noticed that children’s brands are communicating the cheeky, fun factor more and more? It can be tricky designing packaging for these particular products as they need to attract the kids as well as their parents. ‘Pester power’ has a level of success when little ones ...
Read moreAre Alcopops On Their Way Out?
by Amy Barclay Do you remember 10 years ago, alcopops in bars and clubs were all the rage? Especially for the female demographic, sales for Bacardi Breezers, WKD and Smirnoff Ice seemed to be at their peak, but nowadays you don’t see many people opting for these sweet, low alcoholic beverages. We wonder why? Is ...
Read moreOh My GOSH!
Path recently worked with a charity team from Bauer Media to help produce a magazine for the patients at Great Ormond Street Childrens’ Hospital. A team of 10 inspiring professionals led by Jenna McRae from the media group were asked to mentor 20 youth volunteers looking for experience in the publishing industry. Together they were challenged ...
Read moreMRF Next Door
The WRWA has just finished building London’s first MRF – Material Recovery Facility or recycling plant. It is based on the River Thames in Wandworth, South West London just around the corner from the Path Studio. As a leading sustainable packaging design consultancy we made an appointment to go see how it all worked. The facilty has ...
Read moreTetras Can be Recycled
Used Beverage Carton Recycling Plant, Barcelona, Spain. Path visited the world’s newest UBC recycling unit in Barcelona, Spain. The link above should take you to a YouTube video of the plant in action. Basically raw used cartons travel up into a washer that strips all the paper out of the carton and drains it off ...
Read morePatriotic Hearts
Confectionery group Swizzels Matlow has launched special edition packs for its Love Hearts sweets in honour of the coming royal wedding. Apparently the Love Hearts brand has an enduring conection with the Royal Family. Previously visited by Princess Diana and celebrating Prince William’s 21st birthday with an edition of sweets. These are great fun ...
Read moreWarburtons
“Here at Warburtons we have been working very hard on developing new packaging designs for all products in our range. The new packaging features our new logo and our new brand colour ‘Baked Orange’. We will gradually change to new packaging designs across the range from February and this will take several weeks to complete. Although the ...
Read more10 Greenbottles…
10 Green bottles sitting on a wall? Well there should be more than that sitting on a shelf soon. Greenbottle is a venture that has been in development for a number of years but has finally got support from major retailers. It will be rolling out in selected stores across the country in the near ...
Read moreGood Bye Old Hello New!
Today we proudly launch our new website. We say goodbye to our Flash based site which has served us very well for 5 years and enter the world of a CMS based Google-juiced, hyperlinked editable, comment-able and interactive version. We are going to upload all our case studies as opposed to a few and give ...
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Fit for the Queen
With the Queens Diamond Jubilee this year and the London 2012 Olympics, this is going to be a Great British Summer. Many brands ...
