Competition fosters industry partnership with future packaging professionals
First place winner of the 2013 Glass Packaging Design Competition at Michigan State University School of Packaging is the student team of Taylor Thompson, Tyler Nunnold, Sean Hannah, and Matt Gallinger. Their cowboy-friendly, robust, 5-sided package design for Lone Star Whiskey beat out 70 other student teams in this 7th glass bottle design competition sponsored by the Glass Packaging Institute (GPI, gpi.org).
The winning design is a clear, 750 ml glass bottle featuring a star shape shoulder that carries up around the bottle neck. “It’s a big, robust, solid looking structure and the star shape ties in with the name of the product,” says MSU packaging instructor Dennis Young, who organizes this annual competition with Rick Bayer, GPI Academic Subcommittee Chair, as part of GPI lectures to MSU packaging students.