For this month’s edition of her “Japanese Package Design” series, Bianca Beuttel invites us to grab a sachet of bath salts and relax in a hot bath.
As posted on Lovely Package earlier this year, a look at the “re-launch of the packaging and identity of the Kirin beer brand in Australia.”
In her latest column, Audrey Fondecave takes a look at the latest from Yuri Suzuki and Maywa Denki, both participating in the “Cyber Arts Japan” exhibition.

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Tokyo-based design firm Groovisions gets featured on Designboom by way of an interview with studio founder Hiroshi Ito.
Kyoto-based Bianca Beuttel returns to the series she first started on PingMag (“The Tokyo-based magazine about design and making things”) about Japanese packaging design with this, her first contribution to SNOW.
Designer Shunsuke Umiyama will be bringing his product label MicroWorks to this week’s Stockholm Furniture Fair (February 9-13), participating in the event’s Designboom Mart.
Lovely Package takes a look at a few examples of package design for Japan’s Calpis drinks.