Dutch Packaging Design

Awareness and sustainability are written large for private label Mama Nature and are not seen as a necessary evil by them. Together with this colorful and strong graphic packaging design conceptualized by Stepfive, Aldi Netherlands brings another desirable article into its chocolate range.
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Bewustzijn en duurzaamheid staan hoog in het vaandel bij private label Mama Nature en worden niet gezien als noodzakelijk kwaad. Samen met het sterk grafische en kleurrijke verpakkingsdesign van Stepfive kan Aldi Nederland weer een heerlijk product toevoegen aan haar totale chocolade range.

A cool and modern look with a high ‘eco-feel’, that’s what Aldi Netherlands wanted to create for a new chocolate bar for their chocolate private label Château. And see: Choco Cooky and Choco Biscy were born. Packaging with a strong purple color, product color signing and fashionable hipster typography.
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Een moderne verpakking met een ‘eco-feel’, dat is wat Aldi Nederland wilde neerzetten met de nieuwe chocoladereep voor het private label Château. Et voilà: Choco Cooky en Choco Biscy werden geboren. Een verpakking met een sterke paarse basiskleur, smaakcodering en hippe typografie van nu.

New packaging design from the country! Packaging for products that are produced by farmers, bakers and butchers with passion for their craft, attention to tradition and the guarantee of a rich taste. And that is exactly what the concept brand ‘Van Weleer’ (Dutch for ‘from the past’) stands for. Conceptualized for a big Dutch company in retail and foodservice.

Have we given up on changing consumer behavior around package material recycling? Or, are there tools that we can use to ‘move the needle forward.’ Earth911 thinks change is possible.

Read more at Packaging World

Following to the design of the frankfurters (see below), Stepfive also created the packaging design and the shelf ready packaging for Aldi’s free range smoked sausages. Packaging and carton tray of these sausages have the same ecological look & feel as the frankfurters to make it into a coherent range of products.

Stepfive created a new packaging design for the free range frankfurters (scharrel knakworst in Dutch) for Aldi. The new labels for these frankfurter cans and the carton tray are made with an identical and ecological look & feel to create a uniform and striking image for this shelf ready packaging (SRP) a.k.a. retail ready packaging (RRP).

”The primary role of packaging is protection, whether that be primary packaging to reduce oxidation, moisture change or insect/microbial access or transportation packaging to reduce crushing or other damage in distribution. It is more than coincidental that packaging usage per person is higher in the developed world and food availability is much greater. The benefits of (diverse) packaging are obvious to us but less so in many developing countries. Both use and quality of packaging is important to reduce food loss and impact sales.”

Read more on packaging design and food loss at Packaging Digest.

Many food labels are confusing (and some downright misleading) especially with regard to animal welfare claims. To help navigate the confusion, the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) has released A Consumer’s Guide to Food Labels and Animal Welfare.

This new guide aims to help consumers who purchase meat, dairy and eggs interpret the meaning of label claims and locate products from animals who were humanely raised and handled.
More on ‘A Consumer’s Guide to Food Labels and Animal Welfare’ here.

Already back in 2007, Anke Weiss, a Dutch modern designer who uses recycled materials, has designed a series of beautiful lights made from recycled food and drink packaging. Weiss takes – for instance – juice cartons that have been emptied of their contents and pokes holes in them, through which light will shine after the piece is completed. Recycling to the max that is.
More on this project and Anke Weiss’ work here, here and here.

After a few days of incubating, molding and drying, mushroom roots are ready to be used as… packaging material! This biodegradable material is also fireproof and a good insulator. Get a peek at packaging in the 21st century in Innovation Nation with Miles O’Brien.