TheDieline.com: Package Design

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

Student Spotlight: Pravda Vodka

 

New work from Samantha Ziino, a student at RMIT. 

"We had to do a project on an existing polish vodka alcohol. Pravda is a Polish vodka that prides itself on purity & fine ingredients. The bottle & box are white & simple creating an aesthetic purity. A little red is used to distinguish the brand whilst staying true to Polish culture."

Student Spotlight: Jacqui Norman

"This unique brand of Polish Vodka carries a herb/organic flavour due to the use of Bison grass within each bottle. The Bison roam the Bialoweiza forest in Poland and due to their weight, leave unique bold shaped footprints through the dirt - these shapes acted as inspiration for the bold font I have created for the label name. When people think of Poland they usually associate the country with the war and as traditional - this new/fresh vodka label moves away from that notion and manifests the contemporary side of Poland."

 

"Tea - bag promotional collateral for K.W.DOGGETT’s ‘JPP SYNTHETIC’ paper range. To communicate the key message of ‘waterproof and durable’, I created a set of 4 tea-bag tags made out of JPP synthetic to allow designers/creatives to be able to physically interact with the paper and witness the effects while dunking the paper into their tea cup. When they are finished with the tag, they can tear off the top and they are left with K.W.DOGGETT’S business details on the other side."

More images of Jacqui's work after the jump.

Student Spotlight: Maria Papadonikolakis

 

3 Projects by Maria Papadonikolakis, a recent graduate from the School of Visual Arts in New York City:

"This isn't just an ordinary case of beer. What makes this packaging so "revolutionary" is the fact that it's an 8-pack and the cans are big. Targeted for men who want to be big and powerful like Chairman Mao himself. The lining of the faces represent a strong Chairman Mao army, as well as the idea of communism."

"Muhammad Ali is known as "invincible", but in reality, he endorses first aid supplies to keep his "invincibility" image. I thought putting his face on first aid supplies not only gives that message, but it's also someone kids can look up to when they're injured and using these products."

"Chocolate is well known to put a smile on someone's face. With a fun package, maybe it'll give people even more joy. Targeted to all chocolate lovers."

More images after the jump.

Student Spotlight: Kikkoman

  

New work designed and sent in by Jon Patterson, a student at the Academy of Art:

"This is a concept involving Kikkoman. The project was to design a high-priced line of products for a low-price company. With Kikkoman chosen, the line was a conceptual brand of "fusion" soy sauces, supposed to be edgy in their own form. The bottle is representative of the sauce shape in each bottle and since the sauces were dark, there was no need to show the actual product, since none were noticeably different from each other. Keeping with the image of Kikkoman, the logo was used as a spot uv around the bottle to contrast the matte and gloss/ as well as create a grip on the base. The corks on the top are unique in that they "float" in the bottle, giving a new dynamic to how corks function in bottles."

Student Spotlight: Birth Control Stamps

  

David McGillivray, a student at at Brighton University, sends in one of his latest projects:

"The project is a non commercial brief that I completed recently at university. The brief was to create a special commemorative stamp collection for 2010. As the end of the decade will mark 50 years of the female oral contraceptive in the UK, I chose this as the focus for the stamps. The collection emulates a packet of contraceptive pills themselves with the dosage guidance forming part of the stamp graphics. The idea was to create something humorous but also something unusual that would intrigue people."

Student Spotlight: Aaron Willard

A wine packaging project by Aaron Willard, a student at Savannah College of Art and Design.

"Logo and packaging design for a California wine company. The packaging uses a minimalist design approach to capture the essence of the brand."

Student Spotlight: NYC Spaghetti

What a brilliant use of packaging to create something so much more than the product itself:

"I created this spaghetti packaging for a university project last year. The brief was to package one of 5 difficult items i.e. eggs, a rose, custard powder, spaghetti or marbles. I chose spaghetti. The spaghetti sits on a 3d model of the chrysler building that was modelled on CAD by my friend Ben Thorpe. And then modelled out of high density foam at uni. Creating a spaghetti model of the Chrysler building!"

Designed by Alex Creamer, a student at the University of Central Lancashire in the UK. Two more images after the jump.