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2025
Beauty Packaging Design Trends for 2025 and Beyond | Beauty Packaging | February 2025
Pentawards Turns Its Attention to Rebranding, Connected Packaging | Packaging Strategies | February 2025
2024
Less (Packaging) is More (Appealing) | Packaging Strategies | Packaging Strategies | November 2024
Packaging Colognes for an Unexpected Young Audience: Tween Boys | Packaging Digest | July 2024
Who Are the Plastic Recycling Champions? | Plastics Today | July 2024
Which Consumers are Leading the Recycling Charge? | Plastics Today | June 2024
Bud Light’s Packaging Fail Offers Teachable Moments | Packaging Digest | March 2024
Coffee's Still Hot in America, Especially When It’s Cold | Packaging Digest | February 2024
2023
50 Years in the Making: How Air Fryers Are Revolutionizing the Kitchen | Packaging Digest | November 2023
A Reality Check on the Future of AI and Machine Learning for Packaging | Packaging Digest | August 2023
Packaging Trends in Quick-Service Restaurants | QSR | August 2023
Can Robots Help Solve the Supply Chain Disruptions? | Packaging Digest | August 2023
Surge in snacking replaces breakfast, lunch, and dinner | Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery | June 2023
The latest on flavor formulation | Dairy Foods | June 2023
Robots Could Be Supply Chain Saviors | ISM | May 2023
Water, water everywhere and everyone’s thirsty | BrandUnited | March 2023
Students Used Consumer Research to Redesign Major Brands’ Packaging, and the Results are Awesome | DIELINE | March 2023
The outlook of packaging in 2023: Three experts weigh in | BrandUnited | March 2023
The Story Behind the Logo| Middletown Area School District Communications | March 2023
How Digital Technology Paves the Way for Expansion Into Packaging | Free Educational Webinar | March 2023
The Outlook for Packaging in 2023: Three Experts Weigh In | Packaging Strategies | March 2023
FORCEpkg’s Tom Newmaster discusses packaging challenges and opportunities - Podcast | Dairy Foods | March 2023
2022
PCA&D students could increase sales by $60 million for four major brands | PCA&D Blog | December 2022
Who’s Really Moving the Needle on Sustainability? | Packaging Digest | November 2022
An inside look at what’s driving candy innovation | Candy Industry | November 2022
How Consumers are Reshaping Packaging Sustainability - Podcast | Packaging Digest | September 2022
Brands aiming to 'fix' the planet turn to innovation | BRAND United | September 2022
Ingrained Insights Podcast - Episode 44: Packaging design insights | Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery | August 2022
Actions Speak Louder Than Words: Who’s Really Moving the Needle on Sustainability? | BRAND United | June 2022
The United Nations Declares War on Single-Use Plastics | Packaging Digest | May 2022
Der Blick aus Übersee: 3 Packaging Trends 2022 | Packaging Journal (Deutsch) | March 2022
4 Reality Checks: Packaging and the Great Pacific Garbage Patch | BRAND United | March 2022
How Packaging Designers Can Alleviate Supply Chain Shortages | ISM | February 2022
2021
Go Small, Go Big, or Go Fancy | Prepared Foods | December 2021
GO MINIMALISM . . . HOLD ON A MINUTE! | BXP Brand Experience | September 2021
Sustainable Packaging Is Innovating, but Is the Circular Economy Keeping Up? | BRAND United | October 2021
Lancaster packaging class brings real-world consumer testing to students | Central Penn Business Journal | September 2021
Packaging Research Adapts To Our Changing World | BXP Brand Experience | September 2021
How to Leverage Consumer Opinions in Packaging Design | BRAND United | August 2021
Learning and teaching design with data | Pennsylvania College of Art & Design Blog | July 2021
The Growing Meal Kit Market and the Impact of Packaging | BRAND United | July 2021
E-commerce Is Winning, Everybody Shops Online, the New Normal Is Here? Not so Fast. | BXP Brand Experience | July 2021
COVID-19 and Its Impact on the Supply Chain | Future of Sourcing Digital | June 2021
Fact or Fiction? The Truth about Eco-Friendly PackagingFact or Fiction? The Truth about Eco-Friendly Packaging | BXP Brand Experience | June 2021
Tell Us What You Really Think | BXP Brand Experience | May 2021
FORCE wins 2 GDUSA American Package Design AwardsTM | Press Release | April 2021
From Copycat to Leader of the Pack: Elevating Cannabis Packaging | Prepared Foods | April 2021
Nostalgia is Hot if You Can Pull it Off | BRAND United | March 2021
My Kingdom for a Plastic Bottle: COVID-19 and its Impact on the Supply Chain | BRAND United | Feb 2021
COVID-19 and Packaging Design: One Year Later | Packaging Digest | Feb 2021
How Sustainable Packaging Helps Market Idealism to Millennials and Gen-Z | Packaging Digest | Jan 2021
Why wait for a prototype when you can print it yourself? | BXP Brand Experience | Jan 2021
Packaging 2020, It’s a Brand New Bag ... or Box | BRAND United | Jan 2021
2020
Shifting to E-Commerce: Winning Brand Strategies in the Age of Coronavirus | BRAND United | Nov 2020
Dual Packs Double Down on Innovation | Packaging Digest | Oct 2020
Plastics Waste: Do You Change the Product, the Process, or the People? | Packaging Digest | Oct 2020
Global Beer Brands Rethink Direction | Packaging Strategies | Sept 2020
Tom Newmaster of FORCEpkg: “The pandemic has shined a spotlight on the smart people, the thinkers, the innovators, and the problem solvers; I thought I knew who they were, but now I know who they are” | Authority Magazine | August 2020
Speed and Agility – the Engines Behind the New Normal | Packaging Strategies | July 2020
The role of plastics in 2020 | Quirks Media | July 2020
Q&A with Tom Newmaster | Prepared Foods | June 2020
Cannabis Industry Ignites Job Market for Design and Packaging | June 2020
Packaged to Perfection | Paint & Decorating Retailers Association | June 2020
Cannabis Packaging: The Way to the Millennial’s Heart is Through a Cause | Packaging Digest | May 2020
Berks PPE Resource Network: Mobilizing our Community of Makers + Shakers! | Greater Reading Chamber Commerce Quarterly | May 2020
Creativity, starting over, Star Wars and the creation of #TableBoat with Tom Newmaster | YouTube & Apple Podcast | May 2020
FORCEpkg’s remote working beginnings come in handy | Central Penn Business Journal | May 2020
COVID-19 Brings Out American Ingenuity in Packaging | Packaging Digest | May 2020
FORCE wins 3 GDUSA American Package Design Awards | Press Release | April 2020
How COVID-19 brought plastics back from the dead | Food Dive | April 2020
Cannabis Industry Bolsters Job Market for Packaging Design | Prepared Foods | March 2020
Can the Cannabis Industry Eat its Way Back to Success? | Packaging Digest | Feb 2020
Congratulations to PCA&D senior and FORCE’s summer intern, Anthony Nardo! | Press Release | Jan 2020
Cannabis edibles and beverages packaging for maximum consumer safety | Food Safety Strategies | Jan 2020
What the vaping controversy means for brands and their packaging| Packaging Digest | Jan 2020
Where does cannabis packaging design fit as the industry evolves? | Food Dive | Jan 2020
2019
The GIG is up | Central Penn Business Journal | Dec 2019
2020 Predictions: Packaging – Less is More | Prepared Foods | Dec 2019
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away... | Cognitions™ Knowledge Sharing Series | Nov 2019
Packaging entrepreneurs’ path to success went from cubicle to coffee shop | Central Penn Business Journal | Nov 2019
FORCE wins big at SEMA Show 2019 | Press Release | Nov 2019
FORCE celebrates their new studio with an open house on October 11th | BXP Brand Experience | Oct 2019
What happened to my Bud? Beverage makers flock to CBD-infused drinks | Food Dive | Sept 2019
7 best packaging practices for cannabis marketers | Packaging Digest | Aug 2019
Cannabis: Augmented Reality For Packaging | Packaging Strategies | April 2019
Top trends in snack and bakery packaging safety | Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery | April 2019
Cannabis: No One Under 5 Admitted | Packaging Strategies | March 2019
Cannabis Packaging Goes Luxe | Packaging Strategies | March 2019
The global implications of Canadian cannabis legalization | Food Safety Strategies | March 2019
2019 Agencies to Watch | Brand Experience BXP | March 2019
Cannabis: Land Of Exploding Business Models | Packaging Strategies | Feb 2019
What can marketers and designers learn from the legalized cannabis market? | Brand Experience BXP | Jan 2019
2018
Keeping it Real; a Conversation with Tom Newmaster from FORCEpkg | Brand Experience BXP | Dec 2018
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Pot Dispensary... | Packaging Strategies | Oct 2018
2018 Agencies to Watch | Brand Experience BXP | April 2018
2017
What’s the secret to working Fast? Collaboration. | Brand Experience BXP | Dec 2017
2017 Agencies to Watch | Brand Experience BXP | June 2017