design-aerobics: online design courses by designboom — packaging : january 15 – march 15, 2011 from mother nature to the latest breakthroughs in man-made materials, this course looks at packaging design its manufacturing and everything in-between.

lesson list

— (design in its context: 4 lessons)

1: design horizons

2: art

3: technology

4: relationships of production

— (design + society: 2 lessons)

5: a new form / kitsch

6: copyrights

— (creativity skills / general training practice: 2 lessons)

7: cursive writing / drawing

8: idea

— (research and exercises: 8 lessons) 9: find out more about packaging (homework)

10: the tyranny of yoga imagery

11: social campaigns on milk cartons

12: hiding on the shelf – discrete packaging

13: bold boxes

14: rebranding

15: actualizing

16: nature

— (typologies: 12 lessons)

17: shopping bags

18: blisters (with homework)

19: tetra pak™

20: beer bottles

21: smart labels

22: matchbooks

23: trends in product packaging

24: tribal packaging

25: food packaging

26: music packaging

27: case study: nutella

28: cosmetics

— (participants work: 2 lessons)

29: single serve

30: tea

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