Upcoming Seminar: Seven Color Process and Expanded Gamut
December 16-18
Clemson is geared up to host its popular Expanded Gamut seminar, revised to take advantage of new infrastructure hands-on in the Sonoco Institute.
We are also introducing a primer day, December 15, in Curves, Color Management, and G7™ to prepare attendees if needed for the concepts and techniques covered in the 3-day expanded gamut class.
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Online Classes Designed for You
Packaging Science and the Sonoco Institute team up for teaching
Interested in learning more about packaging? Want to learn how to improve your product and packaging design skills? How about one-on-one training in Solidworks?
If any of these strike your fancy, check out the Sonoco Institute's Online Courses. Intended for the curious cats and industry professionals, these state-of-the-art online classes journey deep into the worlds of packaging and design.
The Sonoco Institute's courses are nothing ordinary either; using a contemporary hosting platform, students are able to virtually interact with each other, participate in video conferencing, and utilize multimodal learning environments. Courses are streamed directly to your computer in HD quality.
Starting September 7, join faculty instructors Andrew Hurley and Dr. Heather Batt as packaging processes are explained, designs are deconstructed, and Solidworks comes alive!
The Hard Facts
Packaging is a $200-billion-plus business in the United States.
Some designs encourage food safety, such as the microbial wrapper around the supermarket steak. Some designs protect contents from harm and destruction, such as the reinforced shipping box containing a china platter sent between family members. And some evoke target motivations, predetermining final saleability and company profit, such as the colorful box of cereal that promises both nutrition and a toy.
Clemson University knows this business. We are one of the few institutions that focus on this market, and the only one that is approaching it from so many angles. Clemson University has extraordinary capabilities in many areas, including packaging science, graphic communications, advanced materials, engineering and food science — and together these disciplines provide unparalleled resources for future developments.
With the Sonoco Institute of Packaging Design and Graphics, Clemson University is establishing itself as the emerging leader in the global marketplace of packaging science and graphic communications. We are not on the cusp of this practical but complicated technology; we are in the forefront of defining how products will be perceived, consumed and marketed in the future.
Bottom line: Every product consumers around the world purchase, use and ultimately discard is designed and packaged in some way.