Resources for Project One

APC. 2010. Sustainable packaging guidelines.

Boylston S. 2009. Designing sustainable packaging.

Calver G. 2007. What is packaging design?

Denison E. 2002. Packaging prototypes.

DuPuis S. 2008. Package design workbook.

Ellicott C. 2010. Packaging essentials.

Fishel CM. 2005. Design secrets packaging.

Fisher T. 2009. Designing for re-use: the life of consumer packaging.

Hampshire M. 2007. Packaging: design successful packaging.

Jedlicka W. 2008. Packaging sustainability.

PACIA. 2008. Design for Sustainability quickstart guides.

PCA. 2010. Australian packaging: real examples of innovation.

SPC. 2011. Definition of sustainable packaging.

Sterling S. 2007. Field guide to sustainable packaging.

TCGF. 2011. Global protocol on packaging sustainability.

Verghese K. 2012. Packaging for sustainability.
www.globalpackagegallery.com

www.sustainablepack.org

www.sustainablepackaging.org

www.treehugger.com

Resources for Project Two

http://eartheasy.com/give_tips_for_sustainable_giving.html
http://www.thedailygreen.com/living-green/green-gifts
http://inhabitat.com/tag/sustainable-gifts
http://mashable.com/2011/11/22/sustainable-tech-gifts
http://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/2011/12/23/scrooge-economist-says-gift-giving-is-stupid
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/buying-useless-gifts-again-try-giving-an-experience-instead-20121217-2bj89.html
http://www.treehugger.com/culture/brief-history-society-prevention-useless-giving.html
http://www.dothegreenthing.com/content/most_useless_gift
http://www.canada.com/life/theholidayguide12/gallery+useless+gifts+someone+already+everything/7716011/story.html
http://pinterest.com/tomdiggity/useless-gifts

Southern Cross Packaging rationale booklets

There is no example of the SX packaging rationale booklets, except for the pages that they show in the SX Judges Rationale Awards. Click on the images to enlarge.


http://www.pca.org.au/results2011/sx/awards/Judges-Rationale-Overall-Award-40.php
http://www.pca.org.au/results2011/sx/awards/Judges-Rationale-Overall-Award-41.php
http://www.pca.org.au/results2011/sx/awards/Judges-Rationale-Overall-Award-42.php
http://pca.org.au/results2010/sx/awards/JUDGES-RATIONALE-AWARD-OVERALL-AWARD-38.php
http://pca.org.au/results2010/sx/awards/JUDGES-RATIONALE-AWARD-OVERALL-AWARD-39.php
http://pca.org.au/results2010/sx/awards/JUDGES-RATIONALE-AWARD-OVERALL-AWARD-40.php
http://www.pca.org.au/results09/sx/awards/Judges-Rationale-57.php
http://www.pca.org.au/results09/sx/awards/Judges-Rationale-58.php
http://www.pca.org.au/results09/sx/awards/Judges-Rationale-59.php
http://pca.org.au/results08/sx/page.php?page=judgesrationale

Food packages for obesity

Some students have been proposing various food packages for obesity.

There are some useful articles from CHOICE, the journal of the Australian Consumers Association:

http://www.choice.com.au/reviews-and-tests/food-and-health/food-and-drink/nutrition/foods-that-make-kids-fatter-faster.aspx

http://www.choice.com.au/reviews-and-tests/babies-and-kids/kids-health/kids-health/childhood-obesity.aspx

http://www.choice.com.au/consumer-action/past-campaigns/food/obesity-and-nutrition.aspx

http://www.choice.com.au/media-and-news/media-releases/2011%20media%20releases/spoonful-of-muesli-may-be-mouthful-of-sugar-and-fat.aspx

Inappropriate products

Avoid food products which could lead to health problems later, such as obesity, dental caries, etc. Many children’s foods are so high in sugars and fats. See for instance the Australian Consumers’ Association Choice Magazine articles:

Choice Magazine: Foods that make kids fatter faster
Choice Magazine: Reviews and tests of kids' foods

Why design a package of unhealthy food that attracts children to consume it if we know they will suffer health problems later? Would you want your own children to suffer diet-related ill health? Wouldn't it be better to spend your time designing an excellent package for a food product that is nutritious as well?

Consider  safety of toys and their age appropriateness and educational play value. See for instance

Choice Magazine: Toy safety tips
Business Pundit: 10 bizarrely inappropriate children's products

Stay  away from products which “sexualize” children. There are products sold in pharmacies such as mascara, lipsticks, tattoos, exfoliants, waxing strips, etc for young girls . Some web articles on this:

The Week: Anti-aging makeup for 8 year old girls

Good Men Project: 11 insanely sexually children's products
Cracked: 8 weirdly sexual products for kids

Video: Shop til you drop: the crisis of consumerism

(c)2010, 52 min ISBN: 1-932869-40-9

Synopsis from producer's website:
Are we too materialistic? Are we willfully trashing the planet in our pursuit of things? And what's the source of all this frenetic consumer energy and desire anyway? In a fast-paced tour of the ecological and psychological terrain of American consumer culture, Shop 'Til You Drop challenges us to confront these questions head-on. Taking aim at the high-stress, high-octane pace of fast-lane materialism, the film moves beneath the seductive surfaces of the commercial world to show how the flip side of accumulation is depletion -- the slow, steady erosion of both natural resources and basic human values. In the end, Shop 'Til You Drop helps us make sense of the economic turbulence of the moment, providing an unflinching, riveting look at the relationship between the limits of consumerism and our never-ending pursuit of happiness.

Produced, Directed & Edited by Gene Brockhoff

Apples' Design + Health kit

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/seo/apple-creates-a-health-kit-for-overweight-out-of-shape-designers/3103

http://www.zdnet.com/photos/apples-design-and-health-kit-contents/6237798