‘Less is More’ Industrial Design and Product Packaging Development Solutions for a Sustainable Future
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All designers know less packaging or eco-friendly packaging leads to improved sustainability - for businesses’ and the world’s ecology. As designers you cultivate the user experience, from production processes to reaching the consumers’ hands. You know this means diversifying the application of packaging solutions, using sustainable raw materials, and reducing production and logistical costs. As industrial designers you establish healthier internal and external practices, educating, innovating, and inspiring industries and individuals through sustainable solutions.

But what are the current trends in 2020? Which of the industrious packaging developers, designers, and dreamers are going to help us create innovative ‘less is more’ packaging and design solutions for the future?  So let’s begin to get into what ‘less is more’ truly implies for designers’, developers’, businesses’, and our world’s ecological future. In 2020 it’s a clear trend that less is more, which means taking a more holistic approach to the production of packaging. This starts with you, the product or industrial designer, having a fundamental awareness of the application of sustainable raw materials and the packaging life cycle of your creation. This is from the supply chain to the end game, where your product may finish life after it’s served its use. As developers, engineers, and designers, this means breaking old business habits to reflect on packaging’s impact on the environment. This is by focusing on and driving towards revolutionising industrial design in sustainable packaging.  

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