Year: 2020

In a recent announcement, Clemson University officials made the decision to move back to online-only instruction after the Thanksgiving holiday. Many instructors chose, this semester, to operate their classes in a hybrid fashion where students had the option to take the class online or utilize a designated, socially-distanced classroom space on certain days with limited […]

Oct. 22 is National Color Day! If there’s anything faculty and students at the Sonoco Institute know about, it’s color. One institute pressroom assistant turned Graduate Assistant this semester, Dovie Jeffcoat, graduated with a B.S. in Graphic Communications May 2020 and is now pursuing her M.S. in GC. In 2019, Jeffcoat was awarded the coveted […]

Since launching its innovative VR project, STRIPE VR, the Sonoco Institute has made tremendous strides with this virtual print training tool aimed at assisting the printing industry with workforce recruitment and training. Shortly after the 2020 pandemic hit, the tool was modified to launch a browser-based companion — STRIPE Online. This online version was made […]

          Sonoco Institute staff will be participating in FTA’s upcoming Virtual Fall Conference 2020 during a session titled, “Moving Through Reality with Virtual Help” at 11:30 a.m. EST on Monday, Oct. 5. Bobby Congdon, assistant director of the Sonoco Institute, is co-chairing the session with Clemson alum, Marcy Southern, PPC Flexible […]

The Sonoco Institute will host a Virtual Sustainable Packaging Workshop with Clemson packaging experts on September 23-24, 2020. The workshop is divided into four, one-hour sessions online that cover everything from “Why do we have packaging?” to “Packaging end-of-life.” The early bird discount of $395 ends August 1. Register here. Clemson’s Sonoco FRESH initiative will […]

Approaching its fourth semester at the Sonoco Institute, a Creative Inquiry (CI) known as “All In: Football Recruiting Design,” led by packaging lecturer Haley Appleby, collaborates with Clemson Athletics to develop innovative marketing materials for football recruiting. Each semester, Clemson students are interviewed and selected based on their exceptional design portfolios. Students were recently selected for the […]

Rising packaging senior, Maya Lange, shares about her team’s packaging design process for the AICC Student Packaging Design Competition, as well as some distance learning takeaways from the spring semester.     _________________ Sonoco Institute (SI): What is the packaging project you were working on this spring and did the final deliverable have to change […]

The shift to virtual classes caused by COVID-19 has provided the opportunity for the Sonoco Institute of Packaging Design and Graphics at Clemson University to make available an online version of its introduction to flexography workshop – Intro to Flexo Online. The online version of the institute’s most popular hands-on workshop provides practical and fundamental […]

Every year, a contingent of graphic communications students compete in an annual competition hosted by TAGA, the Technical Association for the Graphic Arts. Students are tasked with designing a one-of-a-kind printed journal comprised of technical articles and usually incorporating some innovative technology. We asked Teresa Clancy, student team president of the Clemson chapter, about this […]

By Kadence Baker The FRESH initiative at Clemson University is a multi-disciplinary hub for research and innovation to address critical issues related to food waste and sustainability. Located in the Harris A. Smith Building, its mission is to have a major impact on the reduction of food waste. This means looking holistically at the food […]