Packaging 320

Assignment 5

ICPF Meeting

As I sit and reflect on the ICPF teleconference meeting negative thoughts come to mind. First off, the location of the meeting wasn’t very accommodating being that the temperature in the room was very warm. Secondly, the presentations that were given by the presenters didn’t catch my attention. My opinion is that the presenters didn’t try to connect with the audience whom they were presenting to. However, there was one incidence in which I got involved during the teleconference, when one of my fellow colleagues got up and presented an idea that he and his group designed for a contest. I feel that he did a great job creating his idea as well as describing it to the judging panel. If I was a judge I would have definitely chose his package over some of the higher winners, but he did a good job anyway despite his placing in the competition. I feel that his placement in this competiton was because the judging panel may have had some bias opinons.

If I could give this teleconference committee some advice, I would tell them to talk to their presenters, let them know that they should try to relate to their audience more. I realize that the information isn’t that exciting, but I feel that a better effort on the presenter’s part would help this teleconference out tremendously.

Assignment 5

The ICPF meeting was actually somewhat boring. A lot of it was stuff we have already heard a million times before. Of course the industry is concerned about sustainability and environmental impact. Almost everyone is concerned about that. The tips that the speakers gave about what to do in certain situations when you get on the job was helpful though.

As far as the competition went, it seemed like it was a little bit rigged. How did that giant ugly-looking "limited edition" corrugated football win 1st place. It didn't even look like a football, first of all, and can you imagine a grocery store trying to put 30 of those on a shelf? It would take up way too much space. Plus, if I eat chips and salsa out of something made of corrugated, I'm not going to put it over my mantle as a collectible. It seems like they just chose them as the winner because they are the partner school.

Response to ICPF Meeting

I thought the ICPF meeting was kind of a useless tool for learning. I dont think that it really related to what we have been learning until the last part when they were deciding the winners of the contests. For being the 11th annual teleconference they sure didnt seem to be on top of things in the technical department. Also, i thought that contest was rigged. The people that one i thought didnt really have a very good presentation and their product wasnt too original, i mean it was a good idea, but not very original. I got more out of the CapePak meeting than i did with the ICPF conference.