Designing and Implementing a Sustainable Manufacturing Process for a Powder-Based Personal Care Product
This project aims to create a detailed manufacturing blueprint for a powder-based personal care product that minimizes product waste and reduces airborne dispersion. The goal is to develop a solution that ensures controlled and consistent application, improving user experience while mitigating inhalation risks. The project will also include an evaluation of current packaging solutions in the market to identify best practices and opportunities for innovation. Project Objectives: Develop an optimized manufacturing blueprint that ensures efficient production while minimizing product loss during packaging and application. Analyze current market packaging solutions to identify existing methods and their effectiveness in controlling powder dispersion. Design an innovative application system that provides controlled, consistent dispensing to reduce waste and airborne dispersion. Assess health and safety considerations by evaluating the impact of airborne particles and implementing strategies to minimize inhalation risk. Ensure sustainability and cost-effectiveness by incorporating sustainable materials and manufacturing processes that align with industry standards.
Raw Material Evaluation and Prototype Development for Personal Care Applications
Curù Skin Inc. is seeking to evaluate a new raw material for its potential use in personal care applications. The project aims to compare this new raw material with existing ones on the market to assess its effectiveness and competitiveness. The goal is to determine the raw material's potential and suggest avenues for further research and development. Learners will be tasked with creating prototypes for selected personal care applications, such as creams or lotions, using the new raw material. The project will also involve developing a basic understanding of the raw material's scientific and biotechnological properties, including its function, features, and ideal formats for various applications. This will help in identifying processes to protect or enhance its composition and performance compared to other raw materials available.
Skincare E-Commerce UI/UX Design Project
We are seeking UX/UI support to help us transition our website from Squarespace to Shopify, ensuring an intuitive and visually stunning e-commerce experience that enhances user engagement and drives sales. Project Goals: Create an intuitive and visually appealing e-commerce experience for Curù Skin’s Shopify website. Identify and address usability gaps from the existing platform to enhance user flows and conversion rates. Develop design solutions that align with user needs and Curù Skin’s brand identity.
SEO-Optimized Blog Writing in Skincare and Natural Raw Materials for Sun Care Startup
Our startup is passionate about natural skincare, wellness and the science behind it. We want to increase awareness about trending topics in skincare that will drive traffic to our website. To do this, we would like to collaborate with students ideally studying in the scientific field especially relating to dermatology and/or health sciences and/or digital marketing who have a flair for writing. As our brand continues to grow, we need compelling, well-researched website journal/blog posts for our target customers who are skincare lovers and tend to research ingredient lists before making a purchase decision. Teammembers will: Familiarizing themselves with our goals, target market, ingredients and products. Market research and trends. Researching blog topics and maintaining sources for citation. Researching keywords to determine the most relevant terms that our customers search for. Researching Search Engine Optimization requirements and suggesting recommendations for us to rank on the first page of Google. Recommending topics for our blog posts. Drafting blog posts relevant to our business. Revising blog posts based on feedback and SEO recommendations Team roles can be filled based on desired focus and expertise/academic background: Focus: SEO research, recommendation and final edits/review of blog posts and, Focus: Scientific concepts, skincare topic research and blog writing
Graphic Design: Skincare/Cosmetic Product Training Manual Development
We are assembling a team to create a visually appealing, scientifically backed product training manual that reflects our brand ethos. This manual will serve as a tool to educate retail partners, empowering them to confidently communicate our brand story, ingredient sourcing, product benefits, and scientific results in a clear, engaging, and trainable manner.
Communications: Skincare/Cosmetic Product Training Manual Development
We are assembling a team to create a visually appealing, scientifically backed product training manual that reflects our brand ethos. This manual will serve as a tool to educate retail partners, empowering them to confidently communicate our brand story, ingredient sourcing, product benefits, and scientific results in a clear, engaging, and trainable manner. Hiring 3 Roles to deliver single training manual: Researcher Communications/Copy Writer Graphic Designer
Skincare/Cosmetic Product Training Manual Development (Researcher, Copy Writer, Graphic Designer)
APPLICATIONS CLOSED -- IF GRAPHIC DESIGNER PLEASE CONTACT DIRECTLY BY JANUARY 19, 9:00AM EST. We are assembling a team to create a visually appealing, scientifically backed product training manual that reflects our brand ethos. This manual will serve as a tool to educate retail partners, empowering them to confidently communicate our brand story, ingredient sourcing, product benefits, and scientific results in a clear, engaging, and trainable manner. Hiring 3 Roles to deliver single training manual: Researcher Communications/Copy Writer Graphic Designer
Advertising and PR Strategy for Entry into US
We are looking to take our business into the US and need support with our adversing and public relations strategy as we work to build our US community, social media presence, leads and web traffic. As our brand continues to grow, we need a structured advertising and PR plans that we can execute within the next year (or sooner, to kick off our high summer season) that will effectively introduce and position our brand in the US market as a premium product in the natural skincare space with strategies effectively targeted to our key customers who value natural skincare and research ingredient lists before making a purchase decision. To do this, we hope to improve our website design, search engine optimization, and social media/Google Search Ad and Shopping strategy with an effective digital marketing strategy and/or campaign as well as take a first look at and impliment influencer campaigns, UGC and relevant press/earned media that can be seamlessly implemented by students and/or our small team. This will involve several different steps for the students, including: Familiarizing themselves with our goals, target market, ingredients and products. Market research and trends. SEO and keyword research. Digital marketing, advertising, PR and website design audit. Digital marketing and PR strategy proposal. Digital marketing campaign and PR strategy proposal (including channels, format, settings, targeting, SEO, budget, mockup copy in line with brand voice and identity, recommended plugins, outlets, writers, influencers) Campaign/strategy development plan including post-campaign evaluation criteria.
Digital Marketing Strategy and Ad Campaign(s)
We are looking to take our social media presence and web traffic to the next level in order to increase social media engagement, leads, website traffic and sales. As our brand continues to grow, we need a structured digital marketing strategy and ad campaign(s) that we can execute end of May/early June (to kick off our high summer season) that will keep our brand top of page and effectively targeted to our key customers who value natural skincare and research ingredient lists before making a purchase decision. To do this, we hope to improve our website design, search engine optimization, and social media/Google Search Ad and Shopping strategy with an effective digital marketing strategy and/or campaign that can be seamlessness implemented by students and/or our small team. This will involve several different steps for the students, including: Familiarizing themselves with our goals, target market, ingredients and products. Market research and trends. SEO and keyword research. Digital marketing and website design audit. Digital marketing strategy proposal. Digital marketing campaign proposal (including channels, format, settings, targeting, SEO, budget, mockup copy in line with brand voice and identity, recommended plugins) Campaign/strategy development plan including post-campaign evaluation criteria.