{"id":269,"date":"2013-10-15T12:31:46","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T12:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/?p=269"},"modified":"2013-10-15T15:01:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T15:01:00","slug":"careers-in-packaging-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/2013\/10\/15\/careers-in-packaging-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Careers in Packaging Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may remember reading an earlier post about Abigail Holden.\u00a0\u00a0 Abi secured a Silver Award in this year\u2019s Student Starpack Awards.\u00a0\u00a0 Well&#8230;, to update you on her progress&#8230;, Abi went on to develop a retail trolley packing system for her major project.\u00a0\u00a0 She exhibited this at\u00a0the New Designers Exhibition in London during July and caught the eye of Tescos.\u00a0\u00a0 Subsequently she was invited to Tescos head office to present her concept.<\/p>\n<p>These projects undoubtedly helped Abi secure her first job in the design profession.\u00a0\u00a0 Abi has joined international packaging company Chesapeake as a packaging designer, initially being based in Bradford.<\/p>\n<p>Abi is joining another Teesside Alumni, Richard Turnock, a structural packaging designer who will be helping her to settle into her new role.\u00a0\u00a0 We, in Product Design have worked with Chesapeake for many years including through live student projects and Carol Hammond, Head of New Product Design (Pharmaceuticals) gave an inspirational talk at the university last year.\u00a0\u00a0 The packaging industry offers some great opportunities for design graduates.\u00a0\u00a0 It is sometimes an overlooked area when graduates are seeking employment but Design at Teesside has a long history of success in this area<\/p>\n<p>We are so pleased that Chesapeake selected a &#8220;Teessider&#8221; for this new post and send Abi our very best wishes.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Don\u2019t forget to keep in touch Abi!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/files\/2013\/10\/P1090176.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-270\" alt=\"P1090176\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/files\/2013\/10\/P1090176-225x300.jpg\" width=\"330\" height=\"414\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may remember reading an earlier post about Abigail Holden.\u00a0\u00a0 Abi secured a Silver Award in this year\u2019s Student Starpack Awards.\u00a0\u00a0 Well&#8230;, to update you on her progress&#8230;, Abi went on to develop a retail trolley packing system for her major project.\u00a0\u00a0 She exhibited this at\u00a0the New Designers Exhibition in London during July and caught &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/2013\/10\/15\/careers-in-packaging-design\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Careers in Packaging Design&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38,6,39,17,1],"tags":[3,18,7],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fi1x-4l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}