Azul’s simple packaging to wrap pieces together. The walnut bird perch separate from the seed container,wrapped with a simple belt of paper. The food packaging has a bird shaped window.

The 1GB USB stick is made of recycled cardboard. The card includes five sticks to be detachable by cracking them on the doted line. Colin Garceau-Tremblay developed this project in my packaging class.

This bag illustrates the pyramidal consumer trap the way Fanny Descary saw it in this packaging project.

Amanda Mocci is converting an environmental problem like plastic bags into a permanent material.

This is Émilie’s project in my packaging class. Good use of corrugated cardboard, adding a seductive effect to the product.

The package here takes position and reminds us that tissues come from trees and therefore it suggest a respect for the material.

The small design studio Harltand Villa based in Paris and Kreo agency developed a nice campaign for Perrier trademark.

Student Maxime Harvey-Carière designs a corrugated board calculator in my packaging class at UQAM.
Sylvain Allard

Exploring the graphic codes of maple products

Nice project here designed by Nathalia Ponomareva from Russia. These tea bags created by the principles of origami.

Simon Chénier-Gauvreault packaging system to replace all these ugly and dangerous blister packs.

In my packaging class, Kimo Ouellette thought of a four-pack which includes a bottle opener, that can be kept for camping or any outdoor activities.

From Kraft corrugated cardboard, Karim Charlebois proposed sugar tubes that could come in small sheet or in a roll.

This tea package was designed by a student in my packaging class. The students had to rethink an existing packaging, and try to optimize the material used. Nice solution from Alexis Coutu-Marion.

Here's a concept developed in my packaging class by Benoît Frenette. "Nouvelle Peau" stands for New Skin and in this campaign, the company would give part of its profits to research for person burned to the third degree.

Do color pencils have to be in color? After all isn’t color subjective? Think of the colorblind people for example. So here’s the objective set of color pencils by Nathalie Dubé.

The idea of picking the droppings removes my eyes all the potential pleasure of the canine's friendship. Poupou Royal is a clean system for the urban dog walker developed by Jessica in my packaging class.

Inside the packaging is printed the Charter of human rights. What a good excuse for the overpackaging. On the pen packages: this is a weapon, this gives freedom, this is vital and this is a voice.

The accordion bag can expands to accommodate more content or can become a paper basket. Justin Lyn design

This is Andrée Rouette’s project in my packaging class. Despite its expensive approach, this concept of maple wood laminated thin bottles they can be reused and therefore justified.

Here is a new concept developed by Mélanie Boucher in my packaging class. The product is compressed sparkling chocolate powder to mix with a good glass of milk.

Yuan Gao presented me this beautiful package in my Paris workshop.

This project by Catherine Bourdon is a perfect integration of form, function and environmental concerns. The envelope that includes the dirt and seeds, transforms itself into a germinator.

Loïc Musselec did this experimentation in one of my class, exploring the potential of steak, chicken and liver photographs on packages. Taboos are very often based on things that we know, but don’t want to see.

Sybile Adrien warning campaign about the danger of over consumption of sugar. Sugar associated diseases were printed in white on the bag making them legible only as the sugar level would lower.

This is a nice packaging project from Laurence Charron-Huysécom in my packaging class. By the way, in french, the word tea (thé) sounds exactly like the letter T.

Once the tie-wraps are detached, there is nothing left from the package and a little service has been given to the user.

" I wash my hands", is a black soap that could remind us of the 20th anniversary of Exxon Valdez’s catastrophe. Designed by Jessica Charbonneau.

The product is very simple. It’s bicarbonate of soda proposed as a replacement for toxic and expensive house cleaning products. The cardboard package works like a big saltshaker that dredges bicarbonate.

Here is a project done in my class my Audrey Blouin that allies both environment concerns in packaging but also the responsibility towards the user.

Inspired by the Rubik's cube this set of 27 mini boxes is designed out of one single piece of paper and a lot of cuts and folds

Karim's package is taking position against hunger and is hopping to make consumer aware of the global disparity of the resources.

Here’s Thomas Jonkajtys’ work in my packaging class. First, a mold was designed in a nut shape. The package is designed out of laminated layers of corrugated board. A break through metallic sheet protects the nine chocolates.

Simon Chénier-Gauvreau created this elegant and decorative bottle is not aimed at «plastic teddy bear» clientele but more at those who are sensible about simplicity and beauty.

Using a simple piece of cardboard without any gluing, this coffee cup holder offers a nice service to the user carrying the standard milk cups and protecting the hand from the heat of the cup.

As the package reveals the three pieces of chocolate, a questionable but funny therapy is proposed along the detachable thread.

The Sugar Skull for the “Día de los Muertos” was the inspiration for Camille Forget’s cane sugar packaging in Sylvain Allard’s design workshop at UQAM.

Isaure De Casteja is proposing a second life of the package. The whole-wheat shaped package can become a piggy bank and be sent to charity organization.

Nice package designed by Annick Bouchard for fair trade tea: «half for me half for you.»

This concept literally eliminates the envelope. A simple detachable flap system helps the writing paper transform into an envelope. Creativity within environmental constraints.

Vanessa Caron was looking to develop a package for healthy chips with a reference to fitness. The final idea of an unrolling measuring tape package was Vanessa’s answer to a very prolific class brainstorm.

Broadhong redesign the traditional bad-aid into a roll-type like tapes.

This concept developed by Jonathan Gauvin in my packaging class is a perfect example of the essence of what is good design to me: a perfect combination of form and function, the elegance of pure shapes, the simplicity of the graphic message.

Jean-Nicolas Duval dark beer concept in my packaging class.

How much spaghetti is needed for one or two persons? This is the problem that was addressed by Joël Chiasson in my packaging class last year. The result is simple, functional, cheap to produce and offers three openings to fit different family sizes.

Instead of separating colors like Smarties, Annie Rossano's concept in my packaging class was to unite and mix them all.