Package Design
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Explore tips and ideas for designing and producing product packaging including boxes. Get inspiration from winning package designs and makeovers. Learn about software and other tools for package design.
Explore tips and ideas for designing and producing product packaging including boxes. Get inspiration from winning package designs and makeovers. Learn about software and other tools for package design.
Create a Popup Gift Box
Writing for About Graphics Software, Sara Froehlich shows how to use Adobe Illustrator to design a unique gift box for small gifts.
Writing for About Graphics Software, Sara Froehlich shows how to use Adobe Illustrator to design a unique gift box for small gifts.
Gourmet Food Packaging
Schematics for a variety of possible food packages.
Schematics for a variety of possible food packages.
Isometric Package Design in Adobe Illustrator
Skew your flat package design to create a 3D image of your finished piece. This multi-page tutorial at Eyewire shows how to do it in Illustrator.
Skew your flat package design to create a 3D image of your finished piece. This multi-page tutorial at Eyewire shows how to do it in Illustrator.
Medical Packaging
Archive of articles on all aspects of pharmaceutical and medical packaging from Pharmaceutical and Medical Packaging News organized by topics such as flexible packaging, labeling, and printing.
Archive of articles on all aspects of pharmaceutical and medical packaging from Pharmaceutical and Medical Packaging News organized by topics such as flexible packaging, labeling, and printing.
Packaging Designs
Browse photos and project briefs for several product packaging designs and redesigns from R.Bird & Company, Inc., an identity and design consulting firm.
Browse photos and project briefs for several product packaging designs and redesigns from R.Bird & Company, Inc., an identity and design consulting firm.
Patterns
From R. Bird, purchase PDF reports on package design. You can also download a free excerpt.
From R. Bird, purchase PDF reports on package design. You can also download a free excerpt.
Pizza Packaging
Create a better pizza box - one that builds business. This Correll Concepts article explains.
Create a better pizza box - one that builds business. This Correll Concepts article explains.
Private Label Packaging
Originally published in 1998, this article discusses some approaches to designing packaging for generic products. "Private-Label Packaging: To Copy or To Create, That Is the Question"
Originally published in 1998, this article discusses some approaches to designing packaging for generic products. "Private-Label Packaging: To Copy or To Create, That Is the Question"
Retro Packaging
Get inspiration for new package designs from yesterday's labels, boxes, and bags at The American Package Museum.
Get inspiration for new package designs from yesterday's labels, boxes, and bags at The American Package Museum.
Sample Box Projects
Different types of boxes made with the MCFT Boxmaker and other supplies.
Different types of boxes made with the MCFT Boxmaker and other supplies.
Specialty Products
Professional Image has schematics for a variety of packaging options from cosmetics to sportsgear.
Professional Image has schematics for a variety of packaging options from cosmetics to sportsgear.
Student Design
Mohawk College Student Design winners and real world packaging examples are presented here.
Mohawk College Student Design winners and real world packaging examples are presented here.
United Packaging Case Study
This case study looks at the packaging design for United Supermarket private label products that could compete favorably with brand name products.
This case study looks at the packaging design for United Supermarket private label products that could compete favorably with brand name products.
Visual Identity in a Split Second
Packaging Graphics article discusses the 3D nature of package design and how it differs from other graphic design projects.
Packaging Graphics article discusses the 3D nature of package design and how it differs from other graphic design projects.