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50 Examples of Creative Packaging Design

admin1 — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:06:13 +0000

The goal of modern retail packaging is to attract customers’ attention and compel them to purchase the product . For this purpose, package designs cannot simply inform the customers, but also provoke feelings and communicate emotions. These range from simple puns on the name of the product to do downright hilarious. This post showcases some examples of innovative packaging designs from all over the world.

Very innovate Anti Theft Lunch bags

After all, who would want to steal mouldy bread ??

Banana Shaped banana juice carton

Salt and Pepper packaged in D-cell shaped bottles.

They also have a handy transparent strip to see the level of salt/pepper inside.

Vibrantly Colored box for contact lens solution

Has bright contrasts of green on black showing water droplets shaped like contacts.

Gloji Energy Drink Lightbulb bottle

Diesel “Only The Brave” Perfume Fist-shaped bottle

Only the Brave is named after Diesel founder Renzo Rosso’s Only the Brave charitable foundation, and the bottle is modeled on Rosso’s fist

Banana casing for carrying bananas safely

Halo 3 Legendary Edition

Sleek and professional packaging. The inside disc casing is modeled after the game protagonist’s helment.

Nepal Black Tea

Vibrantly Colored Fruit Juice Bottles

Chocolate pills

For those emergency chocolate cravings

Resealable Soda Can

Packing box .. or Origami ?

The packaging itself has folding lines printed on it.

Uniquely shaped shoebox

Hope For Peace Purified Water

The symbols on the packaging directly convey the name of the product.

Brut Perfume

Spiced Orange

Wine Can with an elegant matte finish

Colorful Attractive Fruit Jelly

The packaging itself is in the shape of the fruit whose flavor the jelly has.

Hersheys Special Dark Chocolate

Grow your own vegetable

Artistic Tequila Bottles

Coco Coconut water

Packaging represents exactly what is used to make the product ( eg. Coconut only, Coconut and banana etc. )

Microsoft Expressions Studio

A box filled with cartoons, flowcharts, and caricatures is very apt for what Expression Studio is supposed to be used for.

Invigor8 Energy Drinks

Orange Juice

Elegant Tea packaging

Very eloquent and colorful Milk Cartons

Colorful Cream cartons

Very artistically shaped mineral water bottles

Coffee drink with a definite “caffeine look”

“Chop Suey BiPolar” CD with a very moodly cover pic and disc art

Dog treats.

Bold typography.

NatGeo Wild DVD

Disc art with a naturistic feel.

Clean Well Natural Hand Sanitizer

Green design on bottle to emphasize the “natural” origin of the product.

Fuelosophy Fruit Drink

Fruit drink bottle with colorful images and an interesting shape.

Lots of loud typography

Album by “Science Vs. Witchcraft”

They have found a clever way of packaging CDs by removing the magnetic disc from 5 1/4” floppy discs and using them as CD sleeves for their new album.

Chocolate Scrabble

Unique way of selling chocolate bars.

Very descriptive bottles

Nutritional Supplements

Clie Hand Soap and Lotions

Bottle with good colors and smooth curves .

The Cinematic Orchestra

Pleo Robotic Dinosaur

Green packaging with picture of the product as well as the DNA double-helix

Colors in Motion

Milk Chocolate with a cow on its packaging

Zepra’s Happy Water

Simplistic design for packaged drinking water.

Tequila Gun

Looks like a .45. Instead of bullets, has 200ml of Mexican Tequila in it.

360° Paper Bottle

Ecofriendly water bottle made completely out of recycled materials

Uniquely shaped Body Soap Bottles from Japan

Ergonomically shaped, fluid design

Porto Novo Coffee

Extra Grip Climbing Shoes from Reebok

They grip so well that they stick to the box top.

Extra virgin olive oil

Very colorful and apt packaging for fruits

25 Creative 404 Error Pages

thomas — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 09:01:54 +0000

The 404 Error is one of the most common errors that a webuser encounters. It happens when the page the user is trying to access does not exist. Sometimes it may not be your fault visitors landed on error pages, but being able to communicate and direct them back to the home page is as good as a second chance to re-engage a visitor. An creatively designed 404 error page helps to do that. Showcased here are some 404 error pages that we found interesting.

01. AcroMediaInc

02. MundoFox

03. Wulffmorgenthaler

04. WooThemes

05. Sprawsm

06. Rockettheme

07. Deviantart

08. ItchyRobot

09. ClearSpring

10. TeeTimes

11. GeekSquad

12. iAmWWW

13. MeadowHill

14. TysonState

15. Chelmsford Public Library

16. GitHub

17. Mixx

18. Jhuskisson

19. Meroigo

20. MartinKorner

21. CssTricks

22. 24-7Media

23. LateLateGifts

24. Propeller

25. LimpFish

35 Beautiful 3D Text Effect Photoshop Tutorials

ram — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 11:41:34 +0000

Now-a-day most 3D Typographic (The arrangement and appearance of printed matter) design is the latest trend. These 3D designs are mostly used for logos, backgrounds, graphic images and more. You can use these techniques in any way as you like.

Most of these tutorials not only use photoshop to make these designs but also in combination with 3D software’s like Studio Max, Xara. In making these designs some times Adobe Illustrator is used being coloring and texture done completely in Adobe Photoshop. Some designs completely depend on Adobe Photoshop and with out using other software’s.

1. 3D Graffiti With Photoshop

2. Transformers Style Text Effect

3. 3D Reflective Glass Photoshop

4. Retro Pop Style

5. Create a 3D Flowery Text Effect

6. 3D Text Effect 3

7. 3D Clif Text Effect

8. Spectacular Flaming Meteor Effect

9. Stunning 3D Effect

10. Design Soft Stylized 3D Type

11. Suspended Text Effect

12. New Way to Create 3D Text

13. Fresh Typographic Effect

14. Create a Spectacular Style Text Effect

15. Valentines Day Photoshop Style

16. Glow a letter or font using perspective in photoshop

17. Create a Dream Design with 3D Typography

18. Papercraft Text Effect

19. Create a Spectacular Grass Text Effect in Photoshop

20. Stunning Neon Light 3D Typography

21. Glowing and Sparkling Intense Light 3D Logo

22. Create a 3D Text Scene Using Photoshop

23. Photoshop Tutorial: Stunning 3D Effect in 30 Minutes

24. Awesome Milk Typography Effect in Photoshop

25. Create 3D Text with Some Extreme Lighting

26. 3D Text Effect

27. High Quality Metal 3D Text in Photoshop

28. Stylish Retro Text Effect

29. 3D Text Photo Manipulation

30. Hell of Tutorial in Photoshop

31. Patriotic Text Using Displacement Masks

32. 3D text and paint effects

33. Using Light and Shade to Bring Text to Life

34. 3D Photoshop text Tutorial

35. Kaboom! Exploding Text

Bing Wallpapers (High Quality)

saichand — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:46:23 +0000

Bing is now the latest fever of Microsoft. Microsoft has many expectations on Bing and we can consider it as a Google killer. We have the latest collection of Bing wallpapers.

Click on the image to enlarge

Top Blogger Templates

saichand — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:43:40 +0000

Blogger is a very popular service to get addicted. Some clever humans even earn money from Blogger. The first impression of any blog depends on its template; every one can do a Google search and get as many templates as they want. Every template can’t grab reader’s attention and getting the Blog listed in a search engine is not that easy if you choose a normal template, so we suggest you the following templates which are great to look and are compatible with search engines.

Business Elegance

Internet Corporation

Conservative America

Dark Forest

Snow Off Light

Exotic Vacation

Business Talk

Milano

Dreamy

Magazeen

Craftworks

Abrasive

Bcute

Vector Flowers

Download

Fusion

Download

24 Creative Alcohol Advertisements

author1 — Mon, 25 May 2009 06:18:49 +0000

Creative advertising is the best way to get attention from audience for any product. In this post we had collected the creative Alcoholic advertisements

Check out these 24 Creative Alcoholic Advertisements

Site for Creative Minds: WebGraficMaker

writer — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 14:49:16 +0000

An avid fan of graphics? Hyped up for creativity? Why not create your own at the net? WebGraficMaker is the site for that purpose.

To create graphics online:

Visit web-graphics-maker.com. Don’t worry, no hassles anymore since registration is not required.
Once in the site you will see 23 separate flash-based generators on WebGraficMaker. All of these generator are easy to use, so no worries again.
Indulge! Be able to make custom backgrounds, bullet points and even simple lines to decorate your site.
Once finished, you can also download it to your PC and save it as GIF or PNG files.

AdhesionText: A Dummy Text Generator

writer — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:59:21 +0000

If you are web designers who frequently looking for some dummy text that you can use for your design templates and fed up of using the Lorem Ipsum, you check out and try AdhesionText. It is a web- based text generator that creates random text paragraphs with set of characters of your choice. All you have to do is type in characters that you like, choose the language, inspects optional settings such as punctuation, sentence case, etc. then click Get On. And from these you can copy and use the generated text wherever you like.

Features:

For testing design templates, you can quickly generate random text paragraphs.
Add basic punctuation, sentence case, uppercase, case in-sensitive to customize it.
Use Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic characters to generate dummy text.
No registration needed.

TextSnips : Online Tool to get A Tabbed and Neat Formatting

writer — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:45:40 +0000

If you want to ‘share’ online your code or text without the original content being lost, then TextSnip is the right site for you!

How to use TextSnip:

You don’t have to register to use the site. All you have to do is visit www.textsnip.com
Once you are on the page, copy and paste your text into the given space.
After that step, locate the button that say ‘get my url’.
Voila, you have your code and you can share it with whoever you want!

Aside from keeping a tabbed and neat formatting, it can convert formatting styles to css, xml, python, sql, php, javascript, html, ruby, text and the likes. It also permits other people to see, copy to clipboard and print the text that was shared.

Know That Font at IdentiFont

writer — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:00:11 +0000

IdentiFont enables you to recognize the font that you have seen and gives you the information about it.

How does IdentiFont work?

Go to www.identifont.com.
First thing that you will notice is that there are headers that states categories like fonts by appearance, name or similarity.
Choose in what category do you think you can describe properly the font that you are looking for.
Answer a few questions, and in less than 5 minutes, you know what font was it that you were looking for.

Other features include information about:

- the latest font
- hottest fonts or the top 10
- font publishers
- and the fonts itself!

You could also present your fonts to be included in the site’s font directory.