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Multisensory Packaging

Designing New Product Experiences

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Presents state-of-the-art research from leading academics and practitioners working in the field
  • Brings both experimental psychology and neuroscience to the context of packaging design
  • Offers an insight into the way new technology will transform the way products are experienced and thus how businesses are run

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
  2. Multisensory Product Packaging: An Introduction

    • Carlos Velasco, Charles Spence
    Pages 1-18
  3. Packaging and the Senses

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
    2. Packaging Colour and Its Multiple Roles

      • Charles Spence, Carlos Velasco
      Pages 21-48
    3. Food Imagery and Transparency in Product Packaging

      • Gregory Simmonds, Charles Spence
      Pages 49-77
    4. The Role of Typeface in Packaging Design

      • Carlos Velasco, Charles Spence
      Pages 79-101
  4. Multisensory Packaging Frameworks and Contexts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 161-161
    2. The Multisensory Analysis of Product Packaging Framework

      • Carlos Velasco, Charles Spence
      Pages 191-223
    3. Multisensory Premiumness

      • Carlos Velasco, Charles Spence
      Pages 257-286
    4. Multisensory Packaging Design across Cultures

      • Casparus J. A. Machiels, Ulrich R. Orth
      Pages 287-315
  5. The Future of Multisensory Packaging

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 317-317
    2. The Consumer Neuroscience of Packaging

      • Charles Spence, Carlos Velasco, Olivia Petit
      Pages 319-347
    3. Multisensory Consumer-Packaging Interaction (CPI): The Role of New Technologies

      • Olivia Petit, Carlos Velasco, Charles Spence
      Pages 349-374
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 375-378

About this book

This edited collection presents state-of-the-art reviews of the latest developments in multisensory packaging design. Bringing together leading researchers and practitioners working in the field, the contributions consider how our growing understanding of the human senses, as well as new technologies, will transform the way in which we design, interact with, and experience food and beverage, home and personal care, and fast-moving consumer products packaging. Spanning all of the senses from colour meaning, imagery and font, touch and sonic packaging, a new framework for multisensory packaging analysis is outlined. Including a number of case studies and examples, this book provides both practical application and theoretical discussion to appeal to students, researchers, and practitioners alike.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Marketing BI Norwegian Business School, Oslo, Norway

    Carlos Velasco

  • Crossmodal Research Laboratory Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

    Charles Spence

About the editors

Carlos Velasco is Assistant Professor of Marketing at BI Norwegian Business School, Norway, where he co-founded the Center for Multisensory Marketing. His research focuses on multisensory perception, marketing, and human-computer interaction. He has worked with a number of companies on topics such as multisensory experience design, food and drink, packaging, and branding.

Charles Spence is Professor of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford, UK. His research focuses on how a better understanding of the human mind will lead to the better design of multisensory foods, products, interfaces, and environments in the future. Over the last two decades, Charles has consulted for a number of multinational companies advising on various aspects of multisensory design, packaging, and branding.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Multisensory Packaging

  • Book Subtitle: Designing New Product Experiences

  • Editors: Carlos Velasco, Charles Spence

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94977-2

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-94976-5Published: 10 December 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-94977-2Published: 28 November 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 378

  • Number of Illustrations: 26 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Innovation/Technology Management, Consumer Behavior, Experimental Psychology

Buy it now

Buying options

eBook USD 129.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Hardcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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