TheDieline.com: Package Design

5 Minute Candle

"How clever and cute are these? Perfect for celebrating happy, spontaneous moments and sharing memories with those around you. Designed to look like an ordinary book of matches but inside are 10 small candles. Candles can be lit as attached or you can break them off to put on a birthday cake or a cupcake. Carry them with you to celebrate someone’s birthday, engagement, or for an instant candle light dinner with your love. You’ll get 4 different books in different colors of pink, yellow, green, blue, in a pack."

Designed and sold by Poketo.

Via Packaging World

Dumpling Dynasty

  

"Created by illustrator, Fiona Hewitt, and expert in Asian Kitschology, Andy Tainton, the Dumpling Dynasty brand was inspired by years spent living in Shanghai, Beijing and Hong Kong, endlessly trawling the flea markets and junk shops for inspiration."

“Our products are a labour of love. Sought-out from lesser-known parts of China, we strive to personalize and re-create the sweet sentiment and attention to detail found in vintage Asian packaging design,” says Fiona Hewitt. “It is our hope that these products will make your life a little sweeter every time you use them.”

Student Spotlight: Nett

 "The mandate for this project was to develop the visual identity and name a new brand of green cleaning products and create the image of its two product lines. The company manufactures biodegradable and environmentally friendly products made from natural ingredients without the use of phosphate, nitrate, or enzyme. Their products biodegrade to 99.99% in 45 days. The company has set up shop in Montreal, offers its customers its products under 2 forms: so pre packaged and bulk.

Customers can then recycle their own containers and buy in weight to reduce the use of plastic. The efforts of this environmental mark is commendable and their products are effective. The image must be innovative and attractive to create a rupture with the iconography of products and crafts style house that reigns in the midst of local ecological products. The new image will be a guarantee of quality to attract customers who normally do not buy green products."

Designed by Elisabeth Mackay.

Via Packaging UQAM

Freshkills Park: Native Meadow Mix

Seed packets, designed in-house by Raj Kottamasu at the Freshkills Park project in New York City. These packets will be given away to those attending the free, public bus tours of the Freshkills Park site. The seeds, indigenous to the NYC Metro area, were collected by the Greenbelt Native Plant Center and are the same species that will be used in the restoration of the former landfill site. (Coincidentally, Raj is profiled in today’s NY Times.)

(More photos after the fold...)

Studio Spotlight: Moxie Sozo

 

 

 

 

 

  

We feature Moxie Sozo's work from time to time, so you've probably seen some of these projects before. Nevertheless, we thought we'd pull together an official studio spotlight and show them off altogether, plus some that we haven't featured before.

See lots more after the jump.

Fruit Fountain

"Here is a nice experimental work of Amanda Mocci that explored the use of jute as packaging material for fruit infusions."

Via Packaging UQAM

Torre & Tagus Teacup

  

"Torre and Tagus is a home decor wholesale company located in Richmond BC, Canada. These are teacup gift boxes for Torre and Tagus designed by Aaron Heppell, creative director of Brand and Bridge Creative Services. The gift box was designed with the theme of Alice in Wonderland. A whimsical and colorful approach. Each gift box contains two sets of teacup and plate set in their unique colours. They can be taken from tea party to tea party with their unique shape and carrying rope."

Rellana Wool

Amusing packaging for wool from Ogilvy Frankfurt. Brilliant!