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  • Packaging Prototypes for Manufacturing

    By Cris Lauer Aranda, September 6, 2014 This summer, we shared a series of important packaging tips on LinkedIn from CEO Brian Lewis.  CEO Tip #5 (right) sparked further discussion about how we partner with clients throughout the manufacturing process to ensure our packaging… Read More

  • Marketing for Package Design: A Year In Review

    By Cris Lauer Aranda, August 11, 2014 I joined Create It Packaging as marketing consultant one year ago to help attract additional online and print exposure to its package design team in Arlington Heights, IL. My approach is to help growing businesses, such as Create It Packag… Read More

  • Our Secret Packaging Design Sauce

    By Cris Lauer Aranda, July 21, 2014 In April of 2014, readers learned that Create It is a trusted packaging partner to a smorgasbord of companies that varies both by industry and by size. One might ask how we meet the changing needs of our clients. One strength is that we remain l… Read More

  • Without Us, It’s Just a Fancy Printer

    By Cris Lauer Aranda, July 7, 2014 Without trusted and talented packaging designers at the controls, a packaging printer is no more than an expensive investment. When he founded Create It Packaging 18 years ago, CEO Brian Lewis made a point of understanding the latest tech… Read More

  • Understanding Packaging Partnerships

    By Cris Lauer Aranda, June 21, 2014 As a contract package design company, we pride ourselves in “doing it all,” and it’s reflected in our Services Portfolio. Our team’s ingenuity, as well as our agility as a smaller company, allow us to adapt to client requests and industry tr… Read More

  • What Batman Can Teach Us About Packaging

    By Cris Lauer Aranda, June 6, 2014 2014 marks the 75th Anniversary of Batman. Glance at 75 years worth of iconic Batman suits here, and imagine the bat suit as retail product packaging for the Batman brand of DC Comics. Remember everything about the caped crusader, from the b… Read More

  • Crafty Packaging for American Brands

    By Cris Lauer Aranda, May 19, 2014 More and more Create It clients are interested in printing directly onto craft materials. The Budweiser team, for example, handed us a pre-existing litho-label package design for a six-pack and asked for our opinion.  These were our re… Read More

  • More Than Packaging

    By Cris Lauer Aranda, May 5, 2014 No One Is An island Young professionals are told repeatedly that networking and skill are the keys to career advancement. Such is the story of Create It Packaging: Decades ago, our CEO Brian Lewis caught his break in the package design indus… Read More

  • Packaging a Vision Part 2: Sports and Eating

    By Cris Lauer Aranda, April 19, 2014 The Perfect Package Social mingling while eating is a universal tradition, regardless of the occasion. The tailgating sports fan is, however, one of the most iconic examples of the everyman’s quest for convenient dining in a social setti… Read More

  • Brand Packaging Designs Across Industries

    By Cris Lauer Aranda, April 2, 2014 Impressive Packaging that Boosts Impressions We recently made impressive additions to our package design client portfolio, and we’re growing every day. Of course, as every busy structural designer knows, it’s an ongoing effort to upda… Read More

  • Do It Yourself Package Design Business

    By Cris Lauer Aranda, March 17, 2014 There is a lot of competition in the retail product packaging industry. Startups emerge all the time in our industry, and package design professionals are always interconnected. Just look at how Create It Packaging began in Arlington Hei… Read More

  • Top This! HopperTopper: Packaging for Product Development

    By Cris Lauer Aranda, March 3, 2014 Close your eyes and imagine springtime: green grass, birds chirping. Before we know it, the Midwest and the snow belt will thaw, and the surrounding lawns and parks will return to their lush colors and smells. Those familiar with home lawn c… Read More

  • We Love Food: Packaging Chicago Startups

    By Cris Lauer Aranda, February 14, 2014 A new business incubator was recently introduced to the Chicago suburb of Evanston, where Create It Packaging’s own Maggie Lawson gave a crash course on food packaging on February 10, 2014. Here are some of the tips she gave to a group… Read More

  • Create It Has G.U.T.S.

    By Cris Lauer Aranda, January 17, 2014 We began in 1996 as a startup company in Arlington Heights, IL, and, as with many startups, Create It Packaging was founded with G.U.T.S. G: Genuine Fascination For our craft and the relationship between branded packaging and consumers.… Read More

  • Years In the Making: Pharmaceutical Packaging

    By Cris Lauer Aranda, January 17, 2014 Many of us recall the Tylenol scare of 1982. What followed were sweeping reforms to over-the-counter pill packaging and blister pack manufacturing. Below are a only a few items in a laundry list of variables accounted for during the many ev… Read More
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