TheDieline.com: Package Design

Studio Spotlight: Akimbo

  
 

Akimbo is a packaging and branding design company based out of Chicago. They have done some beautiful work for Sauza Tequila in particular. Several more images after the jump.

Studio/Student Spotlight: PACKLAB.

 

 

A nice selection of work from some design students at PACKLAB:

"These are the education student work and four of these design students now work at the PACKLAB. Partners, which is a packaging and brand design consultancy based in Finland. It's sort of an over spill from the department activities, a partnership that is lead by our lecturer Ian Rooney...a team that is very passionate about developing holistic and innovative packaging.

See more photos and full text explanations after the jump.

Studio Spotlight: Elhombredelalata

Elhombredelalata studio features the work of Lluís Serra Pla. Most of his work is in the wine business. Since I thought the boxes rival the design of the wine labels, I thought I'd show you the boxes first and then see the wine labels on the bottles only afterward. Sorry for the tease - but I hope you'll enjoy it more this way!

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Wine Sols (‘only’ in Catalan)
As the own name indicates, the Sols is a sweet wine of Garnatxa of limited production. Enumerated by hand as a ticket of entry or a participation, every bottle has a unique number of the sequence. Yellow straw, blue sky, salmon... the color of the paper changes to distinguish the different ‘milléssime’, as it has been done always with the tickets of the village festival. Client: La Vinyeta | Designer: Lluís Serra Pla

Wine Llavors (‘then’ in Catalan)
Looking for a temporary link, the Llavors reflects his essence with a label that seems to be a piece of newspaper. The content is related to some moment of the life of the wine. A memorable event, a prominent article, or—as in that case that the year was so warm—a piece of the wheather forecast. In this way, using the memory, there is a temporary jump that links the personal experiences with those of the wine. (Laus award 2009 in packaging category.) Client: La Vinyeta | Designer: Lluís Serra Pla

Wine Puntiapart (‘point and new paragraph’ in Catalan)
As the somelier Josep Roca defined it in the Magazine of La Vanguardia the last fourth of January «It seems to have little muscle, as a stylized runner, but its pure fiber is revealed by the stretching in the mouth of the cabernet, the smoothness of the merlot and the local counterpoint of the cariñena grapes. As if it was a zoetrope, the bottle turns and turns and shows a sequence that never ends (don't miss the animation after the jump!). As the wine that has warmed the oak tanks and in the bottle continues a long process, the bottle looks for the ideal point in which to give the maximum of itself. Client: La Vinyeta | Designer: Lluís Serra Pla

To see the wines themselves, continue reading.

Studio Spotlight: Louise Fili Ltd. Revisited

Louise Fili Ltd, a New York-based graphic design firm specializing in food packaging, restaurant identities, logos, and book design, was the very first packaging post on The Dieline nearly 3 years ago, and the first ever Studio Spotlight. Louise was kind enough to send in some of her studio's latest projects:

The Tratturi and Il Conte labels were done for Polaner Selections. The pattern on the the Tratturi label was a reference to i trulli, the distinctive cone-shaped huts of the Puglia region.

The only bottled water produced by a dentist, Aqua Forte is natural spring water with added fluoride.

Can typography be effervescent? Certo! And this Terrazzo Prosecco, from the Veneto region of Italy, imported by Monarchia Matt, tastes as good as it looks—senza dubbio.

Studio Spotlight: ARC'S

 

 

ARC’S is an independent Italian agency in Turin, involved in strategic design – packaging design, brand identity, corporate design.

See more photos and details about the designs after the jump.

Studio Spotlight: Sort Design

  

A selection of work from Sort Design, a Belfast based firm. Few more images after the jump.

Studio Spotlight: Studio Kluif

   

Studio Kluif, a Netherlands based design firm, does a lot of work for Dutch department store HEMA, as well as many other clients. Many more images after the jump!

Studio Spotlight: TDA Advertising & Design

We got in some amazingly good work from TDA Advertising & Design out of Boulder, Colorado. Actually, everything they sent in is pretty awesome, so we're pretty excited to share it with you. Above, is packaging design for gluten and sugar free Shrewd Foods snacks (no website, but if you know where to buy them, please share in the comments.)

Honest Foods granola packaging is simple, fresh and honest - just like its name.

Mix 1 high-antioxidant fiber drinks are attractive, simple and look like the functional beverages that they are.

(More views after the jump.)