The emotional power of packaging user experience
“The brand experience is not what customers get, but how it makes them feel.” Sanjeev Malhotra 2017 User Experience has liberated our approach to design. Originally a philosophy adopted by software developers to challenge the monotony of web applications. The principle has gone on to change our view on everything from packaging to cars, technology,…
Industry-first “Natural Slate” packaging for The Macallan Estate
Hunter Luxury has produced a unique presentation box for The Macallan Estate, a new single malt containing rare spirit distilled with barley grown at Easter Elchies estate. The new release uses precious home-grown barley from the legendary Speyside region, previously limited to The Macallan’s most exclusive and sought-after releases. The elegant gift box, produced by…
How Inspiration & Innovation transforms the packaging brief.
“Repetition is the death of art” Robin Green 1992 So much time, effort and insight gets invested in the consumer brand journey. The seductive brand stories we tell through digital space. The elegant and beautifully shot advertising campaign. The military-precision in optimising the media spend. Rigorous planning, reams of customer data, debate, appraisal and interrogation…
Meet Pippa Bell – growing our Beauty division
Pippa joins Hunter after many years in primary packaging, as Business Development Manager for the beauty division. We talk to Pippa about her time before Hunter, her new role here and what’s driving the coming boom in secondary beauty packaging. What attracted you to make the jump from primary into secondary packaging with Hunter? I…
Luxury gift packaging: The paradox of the ‘invisible’ gift
There are two things people tend to do if they don’t feel they are being heard. They repeat themselves over and over, and/or they raise their voice. Many people hold the erroneous belief: If I yell at you, then you will hear me. Brands that struggle to be seen on the retail floor behave in…
Thinking inside the box – unboxing luxury packaging
It is undeniable that luxury packaging creates an opportunity for social sharing and user-generated content. A Google search for the hashtag #unboxing shows 107 million results. And with almost all social channels now allowing users to upload and share their own video content, unboxing videos are no longer the exclusive domain of YouTube. Unboxing videos…
