On the afternoon of Wednesday 29th January, the Midlands Packaging Society hosted their first in-person event for 2025 with twelve guests from the Midlands Packaging Society and their industry network visiting the School of Design and Creative Arts (SDCA) at Loughborough University. An engaging and informative event was co-ordinated by MPkgS committee member and Lecturer in Design Dr Nikki Clark to showcase the excellent packaging-related activities being conducted across teaching, research and innovation.
The event included presentations and tours of two of SDCA’s buildings (Design Building and Martin Hall) and included a tour of the state of the art DigiLab East. Special thanks must be given to SDCA’s packaging group members who passionately talked about their packaging related work.
Nikki Clark – Overview of the packaging related teaching, research and innovation being conducted and how industry can collaborate with us.
George Torrens – Appropriate Paper-based Packaging Technology presentation and models
Patrick Pradel – Tour of our rapid prototyping facilities
Paul Russell – How AI is informing teaching and packaging design
Sara C K Reader and Katarina Dimitrijevic – Introduction to module ACA140 and the innovative packaging concepts developed by first year Graphics students
Gary Burnett, Karen Sung, Ehab Abdelsalam – Demonstration of the Proto hologram technology (video above, which has no sound) and VR headset technology use packaging examples developed for the event.
The Society will be back at SDCA’s Design Building in July for our annual Pack to the Future Conference. Further information to follow soon.
For further information about how to collaborate with the academics at SDCA please email [email protected]
