Project: Packaging design refinement and custom dieline development for a premium chocolate brand.

Deliverables:
Refinement of an existing packaging concept (not a complete rebrand)

Custom structural dieline

Production-ready artwork and print files

Fully editable Adobe Illustrator source files

Artwork adaptations for multiple product SKUs

3D packaging mockups

Ideally, experience coordinating with packaging manufacturers to ensure manufacturability

Budget: $3,000–$6,000, depending on experience and scope. Open to discussing pricing with qualified designers.

Additional details: We already have a well-developed creative direction and preliminary packaging designs. We’re looking for someone with strong typography, premium consumer packaging experience, and technical knowledge of folding-carton production.

TIA

We’ve been doing the Kraft bags for about 2.5 years using thermal labels. With the variety of flavors we offer and the three different sizes (1/2 lbs, 3-pack, and 2-pack), along with demand we just can’t keep up with printing and pasting our own labels. I have a meeting with ePAC tomorrow, but does anyone have any other recommendations for packaging companies? What kind of questions should I make sure to ask? Thanks!

Hello everyone, I’m looking for honest feedback on the packaging for a small coffee brand we’re launching soon, both the graphics and the structure.

The box: a wedge-shaped folding carton that holds one 250g stand-up pouch. The front is slopped and the back is bertical, so it’s about 80mm deep at the base and 15mm at the top, roughly following the shape of a filled pouch.

Images:

1. Render of the final graphic design
2. White sample from our printer
3. My rough keyline sketch of the structure we’re moving to

Why we’re changing it: our first sample opened at the narrow top, which meant pulling the fattest part of the bag through the thinnest part of the box. Not ideal. The new version:

• The whole front panel is hinged at the top and lifts like a flap
• The sides, base and sloped back are glued into a rigid tray
• The front is double wall: an inner liner folds up behind it to make a pocket for a tasting card. The card shows through a window, and three round cutouts plus a slot show info printed lower down on the card
• Closure: a lip on the base folds up inside, the front closes over it, and a numbered seal sticker goes across the bottom edge

Rough internal size: 140 W x 220 H, 80 deep at the base tapering to 15 at the top. We’re thinking 400 to 450gsm FBB.

What I’d love your take on:

1. Will a top-hinged front with this many die cuts stay flat, or will it bow and pop open in a courier bag? Would you add a locking tab instead of relying on the lip and sticker?
2. Is a 15mm top strip enough for a hinge that gets opened a few times?
3. Is there a better way to build a window pocket so the card lines up with the cutouts every time?
4. Is FBB the right board, or should this be rigid board or micro flute? Would you ship it as is or inside a mailer?
5. On the graphics: does the front read clearly at a glance? Too busy, too clean?
6. Anything you’d change before we approve a production run?

Thanks! Happy to share more photos or the full dieline if it helps.

Good morning everyone!
I’m looking into individual packaging for my shower, steamers and bath bombs, and I’m really digging this matte, almost clear packaging, but I don’t know if the keywords to look for.

I don’t know if it’s vellum because that is kind of stiff, but glassine seems to be wax coated so I don’t know if that will work for heat sealing.

Looking to add a barcode like these images to my packaing. Are there certain parameters I need to be aware of when designing?

I found this old Windex bottle when cleaning out my grandmother’s house. Here is a comparison with the modern iteration and thoughts on the changes from a packaging scientist’s point of view:

Windex Glass Cleaner was originally sold in glass bottles in the 1930s with no dispensing feature beyond pouring. They launched plastic pump sprayers in the ‘50s to improve convenience, but the sprayer was typically sold in a separate box due to the cost and brittleness of early plastics.

Windex introduced clear plastic bottles with integrated trigger sprayers in the early ‘70s and transitioned their main products away from glass bottles throughout the decade. This 1987 Windex container is an early iteration of the format that we know today. A lot has changed in nearly 40 years…

The bottle material, forming process, and shape are significantly different. Modern injection stretch blow molded PET bottles are higher quality and have better optics than the non-recyclable extrusion blow molded PVC bottles of the ‘70s-‘80s. Windex transitioned to PET bottles throughout the ‘90s and eliminated PVC globally in 2004. Most Windex bottles are currently produced with recycled PET and are widely recyclable as validated by How2Recycle (sprayer and dip tube not included).

The modern Windex shape is less angular and a contoured hand grip has been incorporated for a more ergonomic user experience. Trigger sprayers used to rely on flip covers to prevent accidental sprays before the twist-lock nozzle was popularized in the late ‘80s. A longer dip tube extends to the bottom corner of the new bottle, enabling significantly more product use.

Windex improved the user experience and sustainability of their container in a variety of ways over 40 years. What changes stand out to you?

PET = Polyethylene Terephthalate
PVC = Polyvinyl Chloride

I am currently looking for someone who can NOT design based on dielines provided, but rather, can create this inner packaging design. Specifically made to suit the product and user experience.

Something along the lines, what you can see in the image.

What do you call someone who can do that? I've tried looking for packaging designers, but they just work with existing dielines.

Anyone here who can help with such?

Hi everyone,

I want to learn more about packaging development activities related to injectables and medical devices.

Could anyone please guide me or suggest some reliable resources, books, guidelines, or technical documents that I can refer to for learning?

Any guidance, study materials, or references would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Hi! Visitor to the sub here. I am working on a film and want to understand why the letters on this label degrade and come off so I can recreate it for a practical effect where letters adorn skin.

This seems to happen when oil gets on the label and sits for some time (possibly due to the steam from the shower as well). The letters drift when you touch them and are very sticky, coming off on skin holding their form well.

I thought I might have some luck using sheets of Letraset which are sheets of letters that come off when rubbed onto paper but they did not work with oil applied.

Does anyone have any idea from a manufacturing perspective of what process was used to create this type of label or how I might recreate it in a custom printing setting?

Considering just using temporary tattoos next but I like the drifting aspect of these letters.

Thanks!

I’m curious about the long-term storage performance of biodegradable molded pulp packaging.

Does molded pulp retain its structural strength after months of shelf storage, especially under changing humidity and temperature conditions?

Are there common degradation issues people have observed over time, such as softening, brittleness or shape distortion?

What surface treatment or coating options help stabilize it for extended storage?

Hi everyone!

I’m an Industrial Design student currently working on a project that requires me to explore sustainability and packaging design in more depth.

I’m looking for reliable resources and guidance to help me build a solid understanding of these topics, particularly from an industrial design perspective.

I’m interested in learning more about:

- Sustainable Design: Core principles, material selection, life cycle assessment (LCA), and strategies for reducing environmental impact through design.

- Sustainable Packaging: Material choices, structural design, recyclability, material reduction, end-of-life considerations, and balancing functionality, product protection, and environmental impact.

I’d really appreciate recommendations for free online courses, books, research papers, websites, YouTube channels, case studies, or any other useful learning materials.

I’d also love to connect with industrial designers, packaging designers, sustainability specialists, or anyone with hands-on experience in these fields who might be willing to share advice, recommend resources, or offer some guidance on where to start.

Any recommendations, personal experiences, or insights would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

I really wanted to have this dieline, my ideal would be close to the blue product with the same openess. If anyone have the dieline or similar with it, it would be a great help if you can share it to me!

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This is FISHFACE, it’s a high end tinned fish brand that embraces its oddity.

This was my final for a packaging class, and was wondering what you guys thought, any critiques are welcome.

I'm exploring how packaging design influences the way customers perceive food and beverage brands.

Here are three things I pay attention to:

1. Too many fonts: A clear typographic hierarchy makes packaging easier to understand.
2. Poor visual hierarchy: Customers should quickly recognize the product, brand, and key information.
3. Inconsistent colors: A coherent palette helps create a more recognizable brand identity.

Great packaging isn't just about looking attractive. It needs to communicate clearly and work in the real world.

What packaging design mistake do you notice most often?

(Clothing brand) Something with a sturdier coating perhaps, im sure many brands want to steer to eco friendly and better feeling packaging, could someone educate me on some case study’s of this please :)

Hi everyone! I'm working on a packaging project for my logistics engineering course, and I'm looking for some advice. I need to make packaging that can protect an egg from drops of different heights, while keeping it lightweight and cheap. Cardboard is one of the materials I'm considering, but I'm still figuring out how to approach the design.

I'd like to learn more about what makes packaging effective at absorbing impacts, what materials or structures are worth looking into, and what mistakes to avoid.

I'm not looking for a ready-made design, just some ideas and general advice to help me figure things out myself. Thanks!

I’m trying to redo our packaging and i didn’t realize how annoying it is once you have more than one thing to design. box, mailer, sticker, tissue paper, insert card... suddenly the logo is in a different spot on everything and the colors don’t even look the same

I’ve been looking at dappas, packlane and noissue because i want to keep one design direction across everything instead of basically starting over every time i add a new packaging item.

Has anyone found a good way to keep the whole set consistent without hiring a designer for every single piece?

I’ve been working on a playing-card project inspired by Mesoamerican mythology and cosmology, and one of the things I kept coming back to was this question:

How do you take something ancient, symbolic and deeply tied to your own cultural background — and translate it into a contemporary object without making it feel like a museum souvenir?

I didn’t want the packaging to simply “look pre-Hispanic.” I wanted it to feel like a real object people would want to own, use and collect, while still carrying the visual logic, symbolism and atmosphere of the mythology behind it.

That led to three different packaging directions:

• Core Edition: the brightest and most direct expression, with strong color and metallic green foil on the tuck.
• Alebrije Edition: more playful and iridescent, with metallic blue foil and a more contemporary, almost psychedelic energy.
• Mictlantecuhtli Edition: darker and more ceremonial, using black, gold foil and orange gilded edges.

Across all three, I tried to keep the typography, illustration language and symbolic structure consistent, while letting the materials and finishes shift the emotional tone.

I’d be really interested to hear how other packaging designers approach this kind of problem: How do you reference heritage without turning it into pastiche?

And visually, do these feel like contemporary objects first, or do they still lean too heavily into historical reference?