Arcbest

Where Artful Design Meets Quality Packaging

Learn about what our art department does for your custom printed labels and poly bags, how they do it, and why they’re important to the overall process.

Top Four Best Places to Buy and Sell Antiques

If you’re up for the travel and antique shipping, here are four places to start your search for the best place to buy and sell your antiques away from home.

The Importance of Packaging Design

Learn about the importance of packaging design and the top three questions to ask yourself when designing a package for your product.

Ever wondered why those giant tomatoes at the grocery store taste like cardboard?

Why the Postal Service Is So Screwed

Reduced volume, financial crises, and a pandemic have wrecked the beloved institution. But Americans still need their mail.

How to Ship the Irregular: Tips on Art Shipping

Art shipping requires special packing techniques. When shipping artwork, ask about custom packing techniques.

What Does Your Life Expectancy Have To Do With Your Zip Code? Everything.

Think everyone should just pull themselves up by their bootstraps? Try this one on for size.

Forget the Styrofoam: Modern Sustainable Packaging Pummels Polystyrene

Unless you haven’t ordered anything online recently, you’ve probably noticed an interesting trend in shipping. More and more businesses are foregoing styrofoam packaging and using alternative packing materials.

Anti-Forgery Technology For Packaging Materials:

Want to fight against forgery and counterfeiting of your products and packaging? Check this out!

Brilliant Redesigned Shipping Box Is Easier To Open, Has Easy-To-Read Labels

Boston-based freelance designer Chenchen Hu has created a concept for a redesigned shipping box and packaging that improves the experience of...

What Packaging Size Says About You [Infographic]

Every element of package design, from the materials to weight, impact the consumer experience. Some of the experience results from conscious differentiation (preference for resealable packaging for example), while other experiential factors derive from the subconscious. This is referred to as “sensation transference.” Basically, it means people will unconsciously transfer the feelings about a package

Take Stock of What Your Packaging Protects

Nothing will correct a vendor’s bad behavior quicker than an angry customer. And where e-commerce is concerned, many vendors aren’t even aware of their bad behavior until they get a “correction” from a customer. Much of this bad behavior is related to packaging. There’s either too much or too little of it, and either way, it can result in a poor customer experienceToo much packaging adds to shipping costs and disposal challenges; too little can lead to product damage. According to Jack…

Optimized Packaging for Petro-Canada Lubricants Products

Petro-Canada Lubricants, an HF Sinclair brand, has unveiled new-look product packaging. The enhanced packaging, has launched for 1L bottles across

Biomimicry: Using fungi to grow packaging material

Biology is influencing design and Biomimicry in packaging is a science that studies nature's models and then uses these designs and processes to solve human problems.

That’s It: Biodegradable packaging from algae-based material

Petroleum based plastic, and especially packaging, is a major problem in our world. It does not degrade, at least not in our lifetime, and if it is not recycled, a large part of it ends up in the ocean. To find a solution for this problem, product designer Austeja Platukyte has been experimenting to make …

The Certified Compost Channel

Sustainable Packaging Is No Longer a Luxury but an Essential for CPGs

Consumer demands and government regulations have already led to packaging changes, but the time is now to build an innovation strategy, according to Lux Re...