Packaging is an indispensable part and an external form of commodities. Creative packaging is not only a beautiful coat for commodities to enter the market, but also an effective means to realize commodity value and use value.

 

Before making specific ideas for packaging, it is necessary to fully understand the company and products that produce the product, generally starting from three aspects:

 

1. The market situation, such as the market characteristics and potential of the product, competitors, etc.

2. The situation of the consumer group, such as the age of the consumer group, economic income, cultural quality, etc.

3. The situation of market-related products and their products, including brand image and popularity, favorability, trust, product price, quality, sales methods, etc.

 

After extensive research, designers can give full play to personal imagination and creativity based on their information, make preliminary creative ideas, and then after further deliberation, improvement, and development, finally determine the creative point of entry.

 

Forms and methods of packaging creativity

 

Packaging needs to be spread through a certain form of expression. Choosing an appropriate form of expression is the key link to correctly disseminate corporate image and product information. Appropriate forms of expression can enhance the commodity of products.

 

Salient Features

 

Different products. have different properties. This feature is often the personality of an enterprise and its products that distinguish it from other enterprises and products. It reflects the difference between this product and other similar products.

 

The attractiveness of the business's products to consumers. Often it is not their commonality, rather than their individual characteristics.

 

Consumption Positioning

 

When designing a creative design, the designer must know who the product is sold to. This is a positioning design with the theme of a specific consumer group for the product. Consumer groups can be divided by age, gender, class, etc. Different products face different consumer groups.

 

Only when the design is considered around the specific consumer groups that the product is facing, can it achieve the effect of direct confrontation, shorten the distance between the product and consumers, and create a sense of affinity.

 

Emphasize The Brand

 

Different products have different brands and product names, and a personalized brand image is a powerful weapon to occupy the market. New products often rely on creative new images to win the favor of consumers.

 

Plus and Minus

 

One of the signs of the highest state of art is to do subtraction. In particular, the performance of graphics cannot be exhaustive, but the essence should be taken and expressed in the most concise visual language.

 

The premise of doing subtraction is to do addition, first more and then less, if there is no more, there is no less, that is to draw and list all the elements to be involved, compare, grasp the typical, and repeatedly scrutinize, so as to achieve the purpose of cutting out the complex and simplifying it.

 

Strengthening and Weakening

 

There are many kinds of products in packaging design, and the creative expression methods also vary from product to product.

 

The strengthening and weakening can be understood as the visual density of the packaging picture. The visual density refers to the density of the graphic text on the picture. Different packages have different visual densities.

 

Generally, the visual density of packaging images for popular daily necessities is very high, and various information is displayed on the packaging with a maximized image. The packaging of cosmetics and luxury products is a low-density design.

 

Endnote

Packaging design is not an easy task, you need to master the above design principles, you can also design ideal packaging for products. If you are looking for packaging solutions for your brand, welcome to contact us.