With tetrahedrons, the best packing arrangement is not obvious, and after it was pointed out that tetrahedrons did not pack perfectly, it seemed that they did not pack very well at all.

The iMac is a triumph of packaging. When it launched in 1998, its shape and colour were unheard of in the personal computer sector. Sales boomed and it had such a dramatic impact that it soon became ...

6. Shape. First, think about how the package will fit on store shelves and displays. You have to convince retailers that your product will sell more than your competitors’ products in that space ...

But there's a key reason box-shaped packaging currently dominates e-commerce: robots. “E-commerce is becoming increasingly automated,” said Leon Nicholas, vice president of retail insights and ...