Bliss Buter-Thompson

Help craft the current and future packaging of Logitech and its brands, with a current focus on packaging sustainability and future thinking strategy.

• Partnered with Sustainability team to create Packaging Design Guidelines, sustainable packaging design process tools and communicate those guidelines across different stakeholders.
• Partnered with business groups to create 1-3 year sustainable packaging plans.
• Provide support to cross-functional teams regarding sustainable packaging material feasibility tests (product ID, CMF, marketing and business groups)
• Life cycle assessments of a product packaging
• Additional responsibilities include inner department project and traffic management, Packaging Strategy, Mentoring junior employees, Providing design feedback to packaging designers, monitor packaging lab.

• Work with multiple stakeholders to create the best packaging for each product within each Logitech business group
• Directly manage a small team of packaging professionals in the US as well as indirectly manage a team overseas
• Focus on sustainability, cost reduction, brand unification and elevating the consumers out of box experience
• Research new materials and explore applications to share with our sourcing team
• Evaluate the current brand language and envision a unification between structural packaging
etc, more to come :)

Nation wide clients include:
Ello Design--Structural Packaging Design
TPH, Graphic Design--Packaging and Display Renderings & Concept Design
H.I.S. Juveniles Inc--Packaging Development
Glyder.io--New product CAD modeling
Ruja Florist--Client proposals
Chicago Bike Buddies--Graphic Design
Licking County Planning Commission--Sign graphics
Lenox Corporation--New Product Solidworks Modeling
PalmerCash--Apparel Illustrations

• Liaison between US clients and team in China
• Responsible for managing design projects of Fremont office
• Structural and graphic design work, including packaging concept presentations, brochures, structural packaging design and prototypes, as well as developing brand and identity
• Key player in launching the US design office by setting up a project management system, setting up procedures, brand identity, marketing strategy, hiring, building partnerships and so on
• Promoted from Senior Designer to Studio Lead

• Design packaging and display specifications for customer presentation as well as manufacturing using Solidworks, Artios CAD and the Adobe Suite
• Work with manufacturing vendors regarding design feasibility and best practices
• Design internal marketing needs such as brochures, ads, email blast designs, sales materials and images for social media campaigns
• Layout, modification and pre-flighting of customer supplied art for approval and production based on provided style guide documents.
• Create mock-ups of packaging and displays
• Perform photoshoots of package and displays and retouch photos for marketing purposes

• Lead client briefing and presentations
• Ensure packaging quality is met by internal team as well as vendors
• Work daily with a cross functional team of designers, project managers and salesmen over three nation wide offices
• Create concept illustrations, sketches, 3d models, dielines and sample prototypes
• Manage a team of 2 junior designers

Burgopak, Chicago, IL
www.burgopak.com

Studio Lead--Structural Packaging
January 2012-January 2014
• Manage studio work flow
• Direct and mentor team of up to 4 structural designers
• Create and present concepts to clients
• Lead brainstorming and critique sessions
• Estimate and manage project design time lines & deliverables
• Create concept illustrations, sketches, 3d models, dielines and sample prototypes

Senior Designer
2007-2012
• Direct and advise clients on initial concept design to final product
• Collaborate with global production team to meet client quality and deadlines.
• Create concept illustrations, sketches, 3d models, dielines and sample prototypes that client reinforce client branding and design specifications.
• Modify client artwork per client requests.

Associate Designer
2005-2007
• Create concept graphics for clients
• Engineer paperboard samples and die-lines to demonstrate design feasibility
• Write, design, and illustrate assembly instructions for manufacturing vendors