Our MD Stuart has just £250 to raise to meet his sponsorship goal for the charity Wishes 4 Kids. He intends to climb the three highest Peaks in the UK in 24 hours (snigger) along with a group of good friends. To say that he’s a little nervous at the minute would be something of [...]

It’s a known fact that, in the secretive and murky world of label production, digital printing – used for small-scale batch production – is of inferior quality. Fact. It just is. Well, not at Label Apeel. Our new-fangled printing techniques mean that our digital labels are of pretty much identical quality to the flexographic ones. [...]

I saw these labels in Morrisons and whilst I like the idea of doing things differently, there are obvious flaws in this design. The concept isn’t a bad one, although what they have failed to take in to consideration is the damage in transport and handling in store. A simple case of not considering external [...]

It might be a simple thing, but do you get excited like a small child when you scratch off a panel with a coin? After all, you might be on the verge of winning something amazing. No? Just us then. Whether it’s to reveal your winning lottery code or keeping your PIN number protected, we [...]

Embossing is a physical method of changing the surface of a substrate while not destroying, ripping or weakening it. It’s been used for years as a method of ‘up-branding’ products and creating an impression of quality and exclusivity. In the current market, brands are working ever harder to position themselves at this premium point. We [...]

We recently had the chance to flex our creative muscle and really put our technical knowledge to the test by creating a label for our water bottles. With the use of foils, an emboss, spot colours and tricky cutting forms we created something pretty special. The bottle also features a QR barcode which once clicked [...]