Day 8: Prototypes

This week have been working on different concepts for Sensai’s petrochemical-free product line. We have been introduced to the task ahead of us. To design a package to Kanebo Sensai new petrochemical-free product line. We started buy discussing what we wanted to do. To make a clean Scandinavian-japanise-european look. With that in mind we began…

This is what we have come up with this week…

Our mission this week was to generate and produce two different solutions for Sensais’ ECO-serie. We only needed one brainstorm to come up with two brilliant ideas. The first one is supposed to be a Bonsai-tree, which we will work on more later, and the second one is an evolution of our Crane-moodboard – an…

From Sweden with love! Part 2

Hello! Last week we finally got to know what the packaging project was all about. We are going to create a new design for the Sensai brand, Cellular performance. The new design shall communicate that the products are petrochemically free, cosmetical and protectional. This week, we have sketched a lot to come up with different…

Week two, Kanebo project

Hello again!   This is the second week and we now know what the project is all about. We are going to redesign three of Kanebo’s products towards an ecological angle.   We have made several sketches of different concepts and at the moment we’re waiting for an evaluation and discussion with our teachers, to…

Project presented

A whole lot has been going on since our last post. Last week we finally found out what this project is all about: eco-packaging. We are supposed to build a concept around the idea of sustainable packaging and cosmetics without any petro-chemicals. The brand that we are going to work with is Sensai, Kanebos European…

Kanebo Packaging Project – Week 1 (2010)

During the last two years students from Mid Sweden University and Chiba University, Japan, have worked paralell to design food packaging. There will be no food package this year. Here’s the Swedish students to tell you what they’ve been looking at.  

First words!

This is a short presentation of Jimmy Norén, Robin Brinck and their work with Kanebo. The one driving the car is Jimmy and the one in the back fixing his hat in the is rocking Robin. This is the fourth day and we are finally beginning to understand Kanebo.

Week one

Hello! We are two happy swedish students that currently are studying at MIUN Mid University, Sundsvall, Sweden. We’ve just been introduced to our first assignment in the course “packaging design”. We were supposed to discribe the japanese cosmetic company Kanebo, it’s communication, and it’s product packages. This is the result of the research we have…

Day 4: research and cones

This is the fourth day on our Kanebo – project and so far we have mostly worked on research about the company and its products. None of us have heard about Kanebo so we had a lot of catching up to do. What we learn about Kanebo is en-fact a many different brands which produces…