Cog is at your side to drive smarter, faster, more engaging packaging to delight consumers.
Engage with Cog early in the packaging design-to-print process, and here’s what happens: the innovations you’ve imagined in concept, design, printing methods, materials and embellishments achieve epic success at the point of purchase. You end up with more than one-off, glamor comps. You’ll see every minute and every dollar you’ve spent go toward a production-feasible execution.
We don’t replace anyone in the packaging development supply chain. Just as cogs help transfer momentum from one gear wheel to another, Cog helps key stakeholders maximize performance by:
Identifying, testing, and applying breakthrough packaging technology to interested brand owners.
Working in tandem with our clients to provide solutions at many stages of the packaging-design-and-development process.
Searching for ways for each client stakeholder to add innovations that delight consumers and influence their decision at purchase.
Enabling designers, printer and converters, materials and embellishments craftspeople to engage earlier in development where their expertise can make a huge difference that might have otherwise been missed. As stated previously, inefficiencies should receive no mercy.
For Packaging Research + Development Organizations
Services Include:
Decoration development — Materials, Substrates, coatings, & embellishments
Design Consultation
Digital Printing
Graphic Design
Ideation & Proof of Concept
Iterative Prototypes & MVPs
Packaging Supplier Capability Assessments
Print Feasibility Testing & Verification
Structural Design & Engineering
Our consultative and collaborative business structure removes any threat to your critical intellectual property. We focus on helping R+D engineers, scientists, and subject matter experts drive innovation, iterative development phases, and more cost-effective exploration. Then, when an upstream packaging initiative is ready for launch, we’re there to share our learnings with the go-to-market team and their execution suppliers for maximum efficiency.
Packaging Development Services For Design Teams
By leveraging our knowledge of packaging trends, materials and embellishments, production, and printing techniques, we help agency design teams identify and enhance their most impactful and feasible ideas earlier, so they see improved cost effectiveness and quality through execution.
Early Design Stage Services Include:
Color Development
Comps & MockUps
Embellishments, finishes, and substrate exploration
Graphic Design
Packaging Supplier Capability Assessments
Print Feasibility Testing & Verification
Shelf Sets
Structural Design & Engineering
Go-to-Market Design Stage Services Include:
2D Design Adaptation & Implementation
Color Proofing
Comps, MockUps, & Design Lock Target Proofs
Digital Renderings & Shelf Sets
embellishments, finishes, and substrate verification
Print Feasibility Testing & Verification
Production Artwork
Retouching & Color Correction
For Packaging Materials + Embellishments Providers
Our Consumer Packaging Services Include:
2D & 3D Design
Comps & MockUps
Design Consultation & Ideation
Digital Printing
embellishments, Finishes, and Substrate Exploration
Because we engage early in the development process with designers and printer-converters to provide realistic representations of packaging concepts, we are in a unique position to drive usage of materials and decoration effects. Remember that part about cogs transferring motion from one gear wheel to the next? This is a great example. Introducing the right materials and embellishments to complement a designer’s concept and then seeing the end result win consumer purchase is what drives us.
For Packaging Printers + Converters
Services Include:
2D & 3D Design
Color Proofing
Comps & MockUps
Design Consultation & Ideation
embellishments, Finishes, and Substrate Exploration & verification
Print Feasibility Testing & Verification
Production Artwork
Great packaging execution ideas come from printers all the time, and we can see to it that they don’t get lost in the shuffle. Our early-stage access and collaborative approach often opens doors for partners who have been left out of the critical development stages. Demands for producing small batches of press samples on tight schedules make it difficult, so we leverage our digital equipment and design-savvy services to mimic the printer-converter’s standards and let ideas take form without occupying press time.
Affiliations
+ Alliances
We wouldn’t be much of a cog, if we didn’t share and receive momentum with prime movers in the industry, like these.
