Design Futures shortlisted in two categories for the UK Packaging Awards 2023

Photo shows a pink cardboard box. The closing flap of the box has the appearance of a pig's nose. To the left of the box are 3 Trupic vegan chocolate bars. The packaging is printed with the words 'Keep Trufflin'"

Design Futures has been shortlisted once again for UK Packaging Awards. This year, they are shortlisted for the ‘Design Team of the Year’ Performance Award. They have also been nominated for their innovative packaging design for local chocolate company Trupig Vegan in the ‘Corrugated: Online Retail and Consumer Goods’ Quality Award category. Speaking about the design for Trupig, Design Futures […]

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CCRI Seminar Series – ‘Design Futures Packaging: Support work for research projects’ with John Kirkby (Design Futures)

John Kirkby CCRI Seminar - Picture of John and projects worked on by Design Futures

Please join us on Wednesday 16 March 2022 for our next CCRI-wide seminar as part of the Culture & Creativity Research Institute Seminar Series, where we will be hearing from Design Futures‘ John Kirkby. Design Futures Packaging: Support work for research projects Creative Director John Kirkby would like to take this  opportunity to present some recent examples of how the award […]

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Lab4Living OT Placement students’ Researcher Blog: The Reflective journey

OT student placements

Three Occupational Therapy (OT) students at Sheffield Hallam University have been given the opportunity to undertake an extended scope placement within Lab4Living in the Art and Design Research Centre. The purpose of their placement, agreed in conjunction with Lab4Living’s Dr Claire Craig and Helen Fisher, is to develop an intervention that fosters and enables the communication of challenging topics through […]

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Life Cafés are on the market!

Life Cafe is launched

The Life Café kit is now available to purchase via Marie Curie! It’s amazing to think that we began our work with Marie Curie on the Design to Care Programme in just 2017 and we now have an evidence-based product on the market. This is particularly made possible by the wonderful and award winning Design Futures Packaging (http://www.designfuturesgroup.com/packaging-design) team, who […]

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Design Futures wins Design Team of the Year at UK Packaging Awards

Design Team of the Year award

The Design Futures packaging team has been recognised as Design Team of the Year for the third time at the UK Packaging Awards 2019. The prestigious award, sponsored by OPRL, was presented at a black-tie awards ceremony in Grosvenor House, London last Thursday evening. Packaging design studio creative director John Kirkby, who received the award on behalf of the team, […]

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