{"id":12540,"date":"2026-04-01T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=12540"},"modified":"2026-04-01T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T03:00:00","slug":"the-dielines-best-of-march-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=12540","title":{"rendered":"The Dieline\u2019s Best of March 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Daylight Saving Time arrived, as it always does, with a small but very noticeable shift. The light is lingering a little longer now, stretching the day just enough to make everything feel more possible. Even the work, no, especially the work, seems to be brighter.<\/p>\n<p>March, as ever, was about signals. The kind you could miss if you weren\u2019t looking closely. A student project broke a world record in miniature. Sprite reached back into culture to move forward. Pantry staples flirted with luxury, even irreverence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>From Expo West\u2019s sprawling forecast of what\u2019s next to unexpected material experiments and typography explorations, this March offered a clearer picture of where design is headed.<\/p>\n<p><button id=\"expand-paywall-button\" class=\"expand-paywall-button\">Subscribe to Read More<\/button><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thedieline.com\/the-dielines-best-of-march-2026\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daylight Saving Time arrived, as it always does, with a small but very noticeable shift. The light is lingering a little longer now, stretching the day just enough to make everything feel more possible. Even the work, no, especially the work, seems to be brighter. March, as ever, was about signals. The kind you could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[98,608,85,1177,3790,4719,3905,281,4720,2523,3173,3479,713,3480,1052,2760,2437,4498,186,429],"class_list":["post-12540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-packaging-news","tag-beverage-packaging","tag-brand-identity","tag-branding","tag-cpg","tag-design-innovation","tag-eco-friendly-design","tag-expo-west-2026","tag-food-packaging","tag-global-design-trends","tag-graphic-design","tag-industrial-design","tag-logo-design","tag-luxury-packaging","tag-minimalist-design","tag-packaging-design","tag-packaging-trends-2026","tag-plastic-free-packaging","tag-product-design","tag-sustainable-packaging","tag-typography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}