Events
Upcoming events
epda at virtual.drupa: 20 – 23 April 2021
The international trade show for print & paper technologies
4 day-online conference programme – one-time registration for free attendance of all events! We highly recommend signing up to choose the talks of your choice. And there are many interesting ones for designers:
20 April 2021, 12.30 pm to 12.50 pm CET
Uwe Melichar in a panel with Vanessa Mayneris and Stefan Casey
Post Covid Time: New Channel Opportunities for Food Brands
In this panel we will hear from Vanessa Mayneris, a brand and innovation consultant at the Little Big Collective about the new opportunities in alternative channels and e-commerce post COVID highlighting inspiring examples as well as business, design and packaging challenges. Stefan Casey, Innovation Lead at Nestlé’s Product Technology Centre, will share his perspective from a brand owner’s point of view and illustrate the trends with recent brand examples.
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April 21
Jeremy Lindley, Diageo: The power of distinctive brand codes
James Sommerville: The Creative business model of tomorrow
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April 22
Packaging Europe, Tim Sykes and Marcel Verhaaf, Anthem: Packaging Sustainability
NABA & epda: Luca Ferrecio, NABA professor. Most advanced yet acceptable
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LIVE FLASH, 5 May 2021, 4 pm to 5 pm CET
DESK: Material Innovations for brand & packaging design
epda Industry Partners KURZ, Siegwerk, Sleever International and Stora Enso have joined forces and created a collection of their latest product innovations. The samples are nicely packed in the Designers’ Exploration Tool Kit box. DESK is being sent to all epda members in April 2021. – In this session, the companies will highlight the potential of the material in the box, for you to find inspiration for your packaging design creations this year. Any question? You will be given the answer during the seminar.
Attendance is free for charge.
You aren’t a member of epda? Contact us to learn how to order a DESK box:
claudia@epda-design.com
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LIVE FLASH, 20 May 2021, 12 pm to 1 pm CET
Brand design is not just packaging.
Have you ever been asked by a client to design a ‘just the packaging’? Have you argued your need to design the whole End to End User Experience to be told that the shopper team, digital team or communications teams will mange those aspects with ‘their agencies’?
We cannot use Mad Men Age thinking and expect Experience Age outcomes.
In this presentation Jessica Felby will share examples with you of pack design pushed out to a brand experience versus a brand experience distilled onto a pack, case studies to give fuel to your arguments for holistic end to end thinking and processes that can help you and your clients think and work this way.
Jessica’s is understanding of the client-agency relationship comes from having worked on both sides. On the agency side she worked in the UK and Canada developing brands for small niche companies as well as large US retailers such as Walmart and Target. On the client side she worked as a Designer for Cussons Intl in the UK, as a Design Manager for Coca-Cola Europe in Brussels and latterly as Global Design Director for the Carlsberg Group in Copenhagen.
The event is free of charge for epda Members & Partners.
Attendance fee: 60 Euros / pax
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LIVE FLASH, 15 June 2021, 5 pm to 6 pm CET
Next gen’s view: The Future of Packaging
How does the next generation of designers think about the Future of Packaging? In this session we will introduce you to an amazing packaging designer and artist: Sean Valies graduated from the Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague, in 2018. Since then he has been working as a full-time designer at The Vegetarian Butcher repsonsible for the products’ brand & packaging design. Jane Struk, epda Board Member from Moscow and designer herself, will interview Sean about his utopian ideas on the future of packaging and share hers. We are excitedly awaiting the participation of all (young) creatives to join the discussion.
The event is free of charge for epda Members & Partners.
Attendance fee: 40 Euros / pax
Past events
LIVE FLASH
EVENTS 2021
Lov’it or Leav’it Debate, 19 January 2021
Jane Struk, Depot Branding Agency
Meet Pete Brennan, 16 February 2021
Pete Brennan, electric & analog
2020. Opportun-ity or Calam-ity for design? 23 March 2021
Deborah Dawton, DBA
LIVE FLASH
EVENTS 2020
How to collaborate effectively as a remote team
Karel Golta, Tools of Innovators
Global retail trends throughout Europe
Jack Stratten, Insider Trends
Sustainability (1-3)
Chris Sherwin, Reboot Innovation
Customer Centricity as a key challenge
Christian Prill, STRAT FWD
Discussion “What is the new normal?”
Malgosia Pawlik-Leniarska, Dragon Rouge
Seated Retail Safari,
Jack Stratten, Insider Trends
The Art and Science of Gifting
Seedlips, STI Group, Bracom Agency
Meet Jonathan Ford, Pearlfisher
Jonathan Ford, Pearlfisher
Spring 2019Glasgow
Meet & Greet in Glasgow
Spring 2019Vienna
Congress in Vienna
Autumn 2018Paris
Meet & Greet in Paris
Spring 2018Madrid
Congress in Madrid
Autumn 2017
Amsterdam
Meet & Greet in Amsterdam
Spring 2017Milan
Congress in Milan
Autumn 2016Taipei
Congress in Taipei
Spring 2016Düsseldorf
drupa touchpoint packaging
Autumn 2015Berlin
Meet & Greet Berlin
