2022 is almost here! 2021 has been somewhat of a ‘getting back to normal’ year, coming off of a mostly virtual 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. With safety precautions in place, we were excited to be able to offer more in-person classes and events over the course of 2021, culminating in an almost-normal, fall […]
The Sonoco Institute of Packaging Design and Graphics at Clemson University
Project Showcase: Football signing day boards
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, […]
Fall interns share semester experiences
It’s the end of the 2021 fall semester at Clemson University, which means we are saying a fond farewell to this term’s printing and prototyping interns! Two of our Advanced Printing Lab Assistants share their thoughts and experiences from the past several months working in the Sonoco Institute’s pressroom. Bryanna Thobe, Packaging Science, Junior Sonoco […]
Alumni Spotlight: David Stone, UX Designer
Name: David Stone Company: REI – Recreational Equipment Inc. Title: Lead User Experience (UX) Designer Year Graduated: 2013, 2015 Degree(s): Architecture, BA; Packaging Science, MS Describe your career path. What has led you to your current role? I started my journey at Clemson as an undergrad in architecture. After graduation, I decided […]
Project Showcase: Football All-American books
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 […]
Meet our fall interns
In the Print Lab Tyler Capps “I look forward to developing a greater understanding of how flexographic printing works. Additionally, I have found making plates and learning how to operate the flexo press to be very interesting and entertaining. After graduating in December, the goal is to start a career in medical device/pharmaceutical packaging. Healthcare packaging […]
Clemson students attend SuperCorrExpo
SuperCorrExpo, the largest corrugated packaging trade show in the Western Hemisphere, took place on Aug. 8-12 in Orlando, FL at the Orange County Convention Center. TAPPI (Technical Association of Pulp and Paper Industry) and AICC (Association of Independent Corrugated Converters) hosted 17 sessions and more than 250 exhibitors over five days. Clemson University students from […]
Packaging students win AICC competitions
The Association of Independent Corrugated Converters (AICC) recently announced the winners of their 2021 Student Design Competition. This year’s prompt was to create a “Quarantine Survival Kit” corrugated shipper. Students in Clemson course PKSC 3200 rose the the challenge under the direction of Dr. Andrew Hurley. The Packaging Design Competition Committee selected a Clemson team […]
Meet our summer interns
This summer, the Sonoco Institute is happy to have the assistance of two Clemson students working in our Advanced Print Technologies Lab and Package Prototyping Lab. Tucker Nelson, Packaging Science Senior, is this term’s pressroom assistant under the leadership of Kenny Tucker, Print Lab Coordinator. Sonoco Institute (SI): What is your major? Any minors? What is […]
Project showcase: student 3D printing
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 […]
