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his is the historic, orange Cog couch. A meeting place, idea generator, and a fitting metaphor for our business model of comfortable collaboration.
We’re all about fitting into your design process, not taking it over. Wanna talk ideas, ask questions, bring meaningful innovation to packaging development? Then drop in and hang out. Let’s make communication a priority and packaging success a done deal.
How We’re Geared For You.
Cog isn’t a typical consumer packaging vendor. We are more of a partner who will work alongside you to achieve the superior brand packaging outcomes you want. Here’s how we break it down:
1. Geared for Consumer Delight
Partnering with Cog helps you achieve innovative packaging that engages the consumer’s senses, strengthens the consumer’s bond with the brand, and culminates with purchase. Providing visual and tactile expertise is the key. Unlike other prototyping companies, we are present at every phase of the design-to-print supply chain, not isolated from the big picture. Opportunities for improving consumer engagement can happen at any time, and Cog has a bloodhound’s nose for them.
2. Geared for Speed to Market
Cog helps you leverage every stakeholder’s expertise to move a concept unerringly to execution. How? Our unique organizational structure allows us to be where you and your key stakeholders need us when you need us. As we collaborate with leading innovators throughout the design-to-print supply chain, we know what’s available to complement packaging design consumers will want to check out.
3. Geared for Cost Avoidance
Beautiful comps are great. But, if they’re not beautiful and feasible, they’re wasting your resources. Why fritter away time and money reworking designs that come up short at the print stage? Inefficiencies should receive no mercy.
What are your sustainable packaging goals?
We look at achieving sustainable packaging as everyone’s job, not just the brand’s. We practice what we preach by working conscientiously at our home base by achieving near zero-waste of printing substrates and toxic substances. The micro-sites we maintain in our clients’ facilities drastically reduce carbon emissions associated with courier services. In all of our locations we use vegetable- and water-based UV and eco-solvent inks and coatings. Clients and design-to-print supply chain partners regularly invite us to act as an intermediary to identify more sustainable options, from reducing material weight to considering lesser-known or all-new materials. If there’s an ecologically responsible material or embellishment option for a comp or prototype, we’ll recommend it.
Here at Fort Cog, client-asset protection is invoked so often, it’s almost a mantra. If you’ve never heard of Data-Guard 365, catch some of the industry buzz here. These guys are known for their proprietary artificial intelligence software and 24/7 vigilance. You don’t want to worry about security breaches or interrupted operations, and neither do we. Our employees receive regular cyber-awareness training that equips them with the knowledge and motivation to stay alert and pro-active.
For clients who can host our packaging development capabilities on site, we bring an even higher level of security. Cog micro-sites keep all proprietary data inside the client’s walls. The way we look at it, we can’t promise comfortable collaboration without cyber peace of mind.
Attention Punks: Cog takes IP security seriously.
A Cog in the Community.
The community supports our families. Our families support us. We support the community. We do it with both money and personal time. Currently the Cogs are involved with an organization we care deeply about and have integrated into our offering.
Visionaries + Voices
Friends of this non-profit simply call it V + V, and it has a lot of friends. V + V makes it possible for 125 disabled visual artists to fulfill their life’s calling to creativity. Established in 2003, V + V provides physical space and digital interconnectivity, supplies and exhibition venues, and strategic and educational partnerships for its artists.
As a long-standing member of V + V’s board of directors, David Lukshus has rallied the Cogs to contribute their resources and talents to spread the organization’s name and mission. We’ve sponsored golf outings, created merchandizing and packaging materials for Visionarium, made props for seasonal events, and designed packaging for their “Vento Box” Art Subscription program.
V+V+U™
We support and offer the professional creativity and inspiration resource from V + V for corporations, brands, and their advertising and design agencies. V+V+U.
V+V+U’s mission to create Uncommon Art for Uncommon Brands, brings values and talents to a brand’s image few others can. Diversity. Inclusion. Genuine Personality. Unique Perspectives. A competitive advantage.
Consider V+V+U for surface design images, illustration, murals, and immersive experiences. Schedule your team to visit our creative space for an inspiration session that will recharge your perspective.