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University of Lapland 16-19.05.11 Packlab Partners' Oskar Joenpelto was invited as a visiting lecturer to the packaging design course at the University of Lapland. The one week course introduced the students to packaging thinking and the packaging design process through a series of lectures and retail visits. During the course innovative packaging and brand concepts were designed and delivered to three local companies. |
Abbey Board 26.01.11 Abbey took a New 'Inspire' Roadshow to Scandinavia, along with BOCO who represent them in the Nordic region. They provided a unique opportunity to view a vast number of packaging materials. The exhibition showed how packaging can be used to enhance the branding and visual image of many products. Ian Rooney of Packlab Partners held an inspiring presentation called "Things you should know about packaging design". |
Aalto University 15.11.10 Ian gave a presentation at Aalto University in Helsinki. The title "Packaging design thinking - Quick and dirty research". The lecture was a part of series for autumn term 2010. Course Theme: Embedded Values. Aim of the course: To develop conceptual and design skills in different media environments. To produce an artisticly interesting design concept. To give skills for co-operation of multiprofessional work practices. To give students a possibility to create a concept combining audiovisual and typography (digital media and print). |
Pack & Emballage 2010 21.10.10 Exploring the relationship between practical based education, academia and industry. Looking at the past present and the future of packaging design and development Ian Rooney visited Sweden and talked about the recent success story. Finland and in particular the Lahti Institute of Design, Packaging Design Department has challeneged what the discipline has to offer. Ian talked about the need for further developments and investment in packaging design education. Also for institutions to start embracing packaging design from a more holistic packaging design perspective and giving it the value it deserves. He also attempted to challenege packaging design's role and pointed to education as being the biggest driver. |
Gymnasiet Lärkan 21.09.10 Packlab Partners' Oskar Joenpelto went back to school to give a little design, especially packaging design love back to where his creative passionates started. He gave a series of two lectures discussing the finer points of design, design as a profession, the role of the designer and the future of design. He went on to discribe the opportunities within the packaging industry and some of the creative challenges facing packaging designers. |
Slowlife conference 2010 24.03.10 Designing Slow Life -conference in October 2009 in Lahti gathered together international experts of design, service design and wellness to talk and develop services with main theme of better, slower and more meaningful life.
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University of Cumbria 18.02.10 Partner Oskar Joenpelto studied at the University of Cumbria. He returned to give a presentation in Carlisle and to give something back to the university that provided the foundations to his graphic design skills. He gave the presentation to the BA (Hons) Graphic Design department students and Lecturer Tony Peart. The topic was "Spreading the Gospel of Holistic Packaging Design and Finnish packaging design thinking". |
Aalto University 04.02.10 Ian Rooney gave a presentation at Aalto University in Helsinki (formally Helsinki School of Art Design, Taik). Ian gave a series of three small presentaitons based on the past, present and the future of packaging design. Giving examples from education and leading design consultancies from around the world; including work produced by Packlab Partners. |
Politecnico di Milano 13.11.09 Ian Rooney gave a presentation at The international conference "Innovation in Packaging Design. Keywords and Tools" - which was held on Milan on the 13th of November at Politecnico di Milano - it was organized by the Communication Design Research and Teaching Unit of the INDACO Department (scientific project by Valeria Bucchetti, coordination by Erik Ciravegna) with the contribution of COMIECO (the National Consortium for the Recovery and Recycling of Cellulose-based Packaging), and for the occasion of the presentation of the project Packaging Design Archive. |
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College of West Angila 04.02.10 Ian returned to his first design education in Cambridgeshire to give a presentation on packaging and brand design. He gave the presentation to a Graphic Design National Diploma and HND students. When Ian studied there it used to be called Isle College, School of Art and Design, now called the College of West Angila. |
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The Slow Life conference tried to solve how in the future we can develop our surroundings to support slower life, what kind of multidisciplinary know-how is needed to do this and what kind of new business can be evolved to this area. The conference highlights current topics of the Slow Life theme through examples from both academic research and end-user point of view. The aim is to combine know-how from design and wellness areas in order to share and create new information. www.slowlife.fi |
The conference was developed, at international level, concerning current research and teaching activities, aimed at examining and debating innovation in packaging design. It was intended to provide an overview on the state of the art and to encourage the definition of new paths of innovation in the area of Communication Design. www.packagingdesignarchive.org |
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