Perhaps not surprising: healthcare products on shelves continue to reflect desires for stress relief and natural ingredients. This year, our package design gallery saw more mainstream brands touting what the products are free from, in some cases offering front-panel real estate to what is lacking from the product vs. what it contains. To meet the needs of ever-more-educated consumers, some packages had links to more information—this also saves space on the package to allow for minimalist designs.
For more in package design, we profile High Desert Pure and their range of cannabis-containing wellness products, complete with labels that uphold compliance and withstand potential drips from oil-based products. Cannabis brands have to get creative balancing compliance labels with aesthetics—a challenge not new to life science product veterans.
In other news, Stephanie Neil covers reshoring efforts including diagnostic kits and PPE manufacturing stateside in her cover story for OEM Magazine. This is made possible via a combination of advanced technologies: intelligent software and adaptive hardware using computer vision, machine learning, cloud computing, and robotics.
