TheDieline.com: Package Design

Student Spotlight: Sara Strand

Sara Strand is a freelance graphic designer and senior year packaging design student based in Sweden. Here is a description she sent in of her recent projects:

"Love Fonts Memo is a classic memory game where it’s all about finding a matching pair of cards. At the end the player with most card pairs wins. The cards represents love stories about different kind of type faces. Love Fonts Memo is perfect whether you are a professional or a rookie.

High quality apples from Aomori, Northern Japan: Fresh fruit has a high status in Japan and apples are often sold as gifts (£6 per apple). The package is at least as important as the content itself. Aomori is one of the leading brands and account for 50 percent of the japanese apple market.

This package is a symbol of the quality, elegance and exquisite taste of Aomori Apples. A japanese colour explosion combined with a scandinavian simplicity. It’s made for two apples and inside there is a wrapper that keeps the apples safely.

Fish, Bird, Dog & Cat is a line of animal food/candy. Organic food/candy which comes in a packaging with little windows. So you can easily see what product you’re buying for your pet."

More shots of Sara's work after the jump.

Lisa Llanes

I'm liking this set of fun, happy packaging for pet grooming products designed by Lisa Llanes.

Student Spotlight: Jani Glantz

Some beautiful student projects designed by Jani Glantz, a a recent graduate from The Portfolio Center in Atlanta, Georgia.

Student Spotlight: Noah's Dogs

Last project from Adam Mulyadi, recent Academy of Art grad:

"Noah's Dog is a company that focuses on pet supplies for pure breeds. They took the name from the biblical story; Noah´s Ark. Noah had chosen the best pairs of animals in the world to be saved from massive destruction, including his loyal dogs. Based on this story, the company started focusing their business only on pure breed dogs, creating many fresh innovations for pets’ needs. The company strives to honor history (like the pedigree of dogs)"

Bit-O-Luv

 

Adorable packaging from Bit-O-Luv Dog Treats:

"All Bit-O-Luv® products are made with high-quality ingredients good enough for people, but specially formulated for dogs. We adhere to the strictest manufacturing practices, make our treats in the U.S. and use real beef and chicken that’s been USDA inspected."

If anyone knows the design firm, please comment!

via @JenniferClement

Olive Poop Bags

Designed by illustrator Nate Williams:

"Olive’s biodegradable poop bags. The bags are made naturally from GMO-free corn starch and vegetable oil, are certified 100% biodegradable and compost in as little as 40 days."

My Cat Loves

Another pet related packaging post for you guys, this one comes from Robot-Food:

"Robot-food shows a new side to their branding and packaging talents by branching into the pet food industry with 'My Cat Loves'.

The recently formed branding agency has designed an almost familiar identity, unique in the market, with subtle shelf shout to back up the flavours. The product is intended to appeal to cat owners in humour as much as their cats' in taste. The packaging eludes to the 1930’s, combining tri-colour print over a traditional paper packet.

“I’ve tried almost every complete cat food on the supermarket shelf, but my cat continues to bring in blackbirds and mice to fill his bowl. “We must listen to the requirements of the end consumer!” says commercial director Simon Forster.

Looking back to a time before major pet food companies were established, what flavours would be the obvious choices for the cat? In the pre-mid 1900’s as cat flaps grew in popularity, would cats have really dragged turkeys, lamb and cattle into the house?

Perhaps if My Cat Loves had been established at that point, some of the larger pet food companies around today wouldn’t have had a look in."

Logo is based off Simon the cat, photo after the jump!

Nootie Pet Care Products

Yiying Lu is an illustrator and designer from Sydney Australia (also known as the Twitter Fail Whale creator). She worked with the Florida-based company to create this interesting patent-pending packaging for nootie pet shampoo and fragrances. I received an email this morning that the products were finished and launching today at the nootie site. Here's what Yiying had to say about the thought behind the design:

"This branding & packaging design is aiming to deliver new innovative & fresh life style products: The new products here are Shampoo and Daily Spritz combination bottle which are revolutionary as they are the first ever Pet Shampoo & Daily Spritz in one bottle.

The top portion contains shampoo for washing the pet, while the bottom contains a daily spritz that moisturizes and helps maintain the fresh scent between washes. Nootie’s state of the art patent pending bottle snaps together for convenience as well as saving space in consumer’s closet.

The products come in four exciting fragrances Japanese Cherry Blossom, Sweet Pea & Vanilla, Warm Vanilla Cookie & Cucumber Melon; which were also illustrated / designed by me.

My idea behind the package design is: Form follows both Fun + Functionality."

See a few more after the jump.