Category: Project Showcase

This spring 26 senior Clemson students completed the Packaging Science 4200 course. Taught by Haley Appleby, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Food, Nutrition, and Packaging Science, the students were tasked with design projects from two sponsoring companies looking for sustainable packaging solutions: Atlantic Packaging: redesign a direct-to-consumer hat package to be sustainable and curbside […]

2023 is the inaugural year of ProjectFLEX: an annual print project showcasing the capabilities of the amazing women in the flexographic industry. Courtney Lesley got the idea for ProjectFLEX from working on promotional print projects with her employer. The idea behind ProjectFLEX was to develop a way for women in the industry to work together to […]

For early National Signing Day on December 15, a packaging team out of the Sonoco Institute collaborated with Clemson Football to help announce their new, 2022 college recruits for an event held on campus that day. Around 150 people gathered at the Allen N. Reeves Football Complex at Clemson University on December 15: among them, […]

While most projects out of the Sonoco Institute’s prototyping lab typically use corrugated, paperboard and various films to bring packaging concepts to life, this summer a small team worked on a unique project incorporating printed acrylic, specialty leather paper and corrugated. Haley Appleby, packaging lecturer and manager of the Sonoco Institute’s prototyping lab, and her […]

Clemson graphics and packaging students ended the spring semester strong with a flurry of final projects prototyped at the Sonoco Institute. One class led by Dr. Shu Chang, associate professor in Graphic Communications, studies the workflow of 3D printing, making use of the Mimaki 3DUJ-553 full-color, commercial 3D printer placed in the institute’s packaging computer […]