Experience trumps all

Experience trumps all

According to the Food Marketing Institute (FMI), Americans spent 620 billion dollars in U.S. supermarkets in 2013, accounting for 5.6% of their total disposable income. There are 37,459 supermarkets operating in the U.S. and the average store now carries almost 44,000...
Structure – it’s just not about being organized.  

Structure – it’s just not about being organized.  

When someone says structure, what comes to mind? For many, the word structure conjures imagery of XLS tables and MS Word docs. This sort of structure provides the framework for the tasks, jobs and interactions we have during our day, helping hold it all together,...
Welcome to the Biondo Group

Welcome to the Biondo Group

The Biondo Group is happy to introduce, our blog. Concurrently, we’ve moved our website to a modern, fast loading, mobile friendly, easy to manage, CMS friendly platform: WordPress. Why now? After 50 years in business, we’ve seen our fair share of change, won our fair...
Brand Champions: A Retrospective

Brand Champions: A Retrospective

I started out as a package designer in 1960. Magic Marker was the medium, and beautiful and trustworthy was the message. Looking back on the ‘60s, packaging design was really in the last stages of the post-war boom, when marketing and sales efforts still focused on promoting single lines or individual brands.

Packaging design of the ‘60s was mostly four-color process litho sheets laminated to corrugate. Designs tended to be simple and memorable, like the classic Corning cornflower, which consumers instantly recognized and adored. Coupled with the advanced technology of CorningWare, the “blue cornflower” brand enjoyed unprecedented loyalty and trust, which allowed it to dominate the category in the ‘70s with such leading brand-name products as Corelle, CorningWare and Pyrex, followed by Revere Ware and Visions in the ‘80s.