Labels for New Zealand and the world
This year’s Pride in Print Awards were held at Wellington’s TSB Arena, hosted by Jeremy Corbett and Ali Mau. The annual event is a chance for the country’s label, print and packaging experts to showcase label innovation and advances in printing technologies. Category winners came from a broad range of printers and print solutions, […]
The team at Label & Litho are committed to maintaining a high level of sustainable business practice. Although printing labels may not have the best reputation in terms of sustainability, the printing industry has become extremely environmentally sensitive over the past 20 years and quick to adapt new sustainable practices. In 2013 we were the proud […]
We’ve said it before, but we’ll say it again – We love beer labels! We are very honoured to have been asked by the Curator at the Alexander Turnbull Library to provide copies of our beer labels and wine labels for the Ephemera Collection. ‘Ephemera’ is material published for short term use which includes printed labels, […]
The team at Label & Litho have gone down the rabbit hole, to explore the psychology of design when it comes to wine labels. Since addressing colour, and the different emotions they evoke, we now look at spacing, lines and shapes. There is not a lot of room on your typical wine label, so it’s important […]
Each and every day we are subjected to an array of visual information to digest (consciously or otherwise). Design determines how we perceive things – and is especially pertinent when it comes to product packaging – with wine labelling being no exception! When it comes to wine, we select and drink a bottle based on direction from all five […]
We can’t believe it! It’s been a year since we moved from our old factory to our new one. And what a great year it has been. To celebrate the anniversary of our move, we’ve had the GoPro videos we recorded of the move edited and have published them here to give a sneak peak at what […]
RFID, or ‘radio frequency identification’ tags are a brilliant product for all kinds of purposes, including helping to prevent shoplifting. RF tags don’t need to be visible – they transmit a radio frequency to a sensor that pick up electromagnetic fields at short ranges, even if they hidden in a label. If you use a snapper card […]
When most people think of printing labels – be it wine labels, beer labels, labels with rfid tags, personalised labels, food labels, or any other kind of printed label – there seems to be an idea that it is going to be really complex and a hassle of a process. Whatever the cause, we find […]