ELEMENTS
Design agency: O,Nice! Design Studio
Creative Director: Stefano Torregrossa
Label materials: Avery Dennison
NFC tags: Avery Dennison Smartrac
Embellishments and print tooling: Luxoro-KURZ and H+M
Print: Grafical
Glass bottles and stoppers/caps: Estal
Photo: ADvision
Video: ADvision
Paper: Favini
ONCE UPON A TIME
Design agency: Supperstudio
Creative Director: Paco Adín Oteiza
Label materials: Avery Dennison
Embellishments and print tooling: KURZ and H+M
Label Print: Etinsa
Boxes: Egisa
Glass bottles: Estal
Stopper/caps: Amorim Top Series
For brands competing in the premium market, a product label can play a critical role in communicating with its customers, especially at a time when consumers are increasingly concerned about sustainability credentials when making purchase decisions. In fact, a survey found that 65% of U.S. buyers consider sustainability when making purchases, which is a 14% increase from a year ago. Due to this rising demand for sustainable products, brands frequently lean on sustainable labeling innovations as a powerful and interactive way to communicate their values. As for luxury brands, it's also understanding and demonstrating that premium labels can be sustainable without sacrificing luxury appeal.
This year, we’re showcasing some of our leading sustainable premium labeling materials and innovations in connected packaging at Paris Packaging Week 2023. Every year, more than 10,000 visitors from over 80 countries attend, exploring the latest advancements in packaging across 1,600 brands in the cosmetics, fragrances, personal care, and premium beverage industries. We will welcome these brands on the 25th and 26th of January and invite them to explore our booth, consisting of two main pillars.
Together with our partners at ESTAL, Favini, Grafical, Luxoro-KURZ and O,nice! Design Studio, we have developed six ‘Element’ prototypes that showcase our premium, sustainable, and security portfolios. These will be physically exhibited at the booth, with each relating to a specific environmental sustainability issue. Our prototype labels will also provide extra digital content when scanned, using our Intelligent Labels via NFC, adding a level of engagement and interactivity.
Our goal with this initiative is to demonstrate how luxury brands can pair labels with digital triggers, such as NFC tags, and bridge the physical and digital worlds to communicate their true sustainability stories. After all, by providing consumers with information about sustainable options through intelligent labels, brands can better communicate their sustainability stories and values.
The second pillar of our Paris Packaging Week booth is dedicated to the beauty sector. Taking inspiration from fairytales, particularly the tales in which we are encouraged to comprehend the overarching moral of the story, Once Upon A Time highlights the need for brands to rethink how they connect with their consumers through design. In collaboration with Supperstudio, KURZ, ESTAL, Etiquel, Amorin, Etinsa, and Egisa, we developed seven prototypes based on classic fairytales with a twist. Each prototype's fairytale is turned upside down by being paired with a social sustainability issue — think Rapunzel and anti-ageism.
As we exhibit these two pillars at our booth this year, we hope to demonstrate to brands that with sustainable materials you can still achieve a premium look and feel for their products that not only reduces the environmental impact of packaging but also unlocks the power of connected products to communicate a sustainability story. As a result, consumers will be more engaged. We look forward to showing the brands of the future what premium sustainable solutions are capable of and inspiring them to take action.