September 2025

From Barcode to Brand Story: How Smart Packaging is Becoming CPG’s Next Growth Engine September 23, 2025 Sunrise 2027 is coming. The question for CPG leaders is whether they will treat it as compliance or as a once-in-a-generation chance to reinvent the pack. Picture a shopper in the beverage aisle. She grabs a bottle, scans […]

3D Color LaunchPad: The Last Mile That Decides a Launch September 23, 2025 Every launch has a moment of truth. Real packs land in real hands on time. Meetings happen or they slip. Decisions get made or they do not. 3D Color built LaunchPad for that moment. LaunchPad sits inside our end-to-end platform and closes

Pack Futures: AI‑Driven Innovation with Ai Palette’s Som GanChoudhuri September 2, 2025 Welcome to Pack Futures by 3D Color. Hosted by Jason Hauer and fellow 3D Color leaders, this series explores how leaders in CPG and retail harness innovation, technology and emerging consumer insights to shape the future of packaging. In this conversation, we speak with Somsubhra GanChoudhuri,

Doritos, Red Bull, Jack & Coke, Danone: 7 Pack Moves to Copy

Designing for Aging Eyes: Keep Your Colors Vivid August 12, 2025 The nostalgia for brighter days If you scroll through social media, you’ll see posts lamenting that everything looked brighter in the 1980s and 90s, from vivid Toys “R” Us logos to saturated McDonald’s play‑zones. Is this just nostalgia, or does the world lose color as

Heineken’s L0VE.L0VE Cans. Cooper’s 30‑Oz Cheese Block. Little Debbie Grab‑and‑Go. Goldfish Glow Bags. This Week’s Biggest Packaging Moves. 3D Color Packaging Pulse: Week of September 8, 2025 Packaging was the story this week. CPG brands turned cans and cartons into cultural billboards, celebrating sport, adding spooky surprises, cutting carbon and tapping icons. Below are seven

Inside 3D Color: Hack Week and Prototype Philosophy July 28, 2025 In the face of unprecedented growth and significant system improvements to enable scale, it’s easy for innovation to take a back seat. But at 3D Color, innovation remains at the forefront. At 3D Color, we believe that true innovation doesn’t happen by accident. It

Pack Futures by 3D Color: How Kraft Heinz and Nestlé Use Nichefire’s Predictive Cultural Intelligence to Shape Packaging and Innovation August 14, 2025 Welcome to the first installment of Pack Futures by 3D Color, where we explore how leaders in CPG and retail harness innovation, technology, and emerging consumer insights to shape the future of