Label-free food packaging, e-voting returns, and a common OOH metric (VAC): BPJ News — Morning Brief
A day that forces three shifts at once: design out steps, run on operations, and wobble with policy.
Food packaging is moving from “print a label” to design that eliminates the label-application step entirely. Elections are restarting digitization, but plenty of physical, on-the-floor materials—and the work to manage them—will stay put in other parts of the process.
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On the packaging floor, partnerships are forming to reduce the very act of “applying” labels. In elections, electronic voting returns to a prefectural-level race for the first time in 24 years. Advertising is entering a phase where OOH (out-of-home) exposure is measured with a unified metric, and direct mail is beginning to be described as an operation that auto-sends from CRM events.…
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