The Big Book of Packaging Prototypes


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Provides a visual catalyst for the creation of packaging designs. This book demonstrates the huge variety of packaging possibilities. It includes photographed finished models. It details the principles of packaging, along with the issues and challenges faced by contemporary packaging designers.




Packaging Prototypes


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'The CD-ROM which accompanies the book ... provides a digital version of the templates, which can be used as they are or as a basis for new design' -- jacket.




Packaging Prototypes 3


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"Packaging today is a potent visual symbol of our 'throw-away' culture; a culture which likes its fresh fruit shrink-wrapped and every product presented in a shiny new package. Towering landfill sites, decimated forests and the ever present hole in the ozone layer, all attest to the destructive effects of the modern world's insatiable consumerist appetites. Our attitudes to packaging need to change, and to aid this process, it must be the responsibility of the designer to recognise, through a systemic approach, environmental issues at the very inception of the design idea." "This resource book explains the systems by which improvements can be made in the pre-production, manufacture and distribution of a packaging product - illustrating the results of these improvements with a collection of superb packs, the quality and efficiency of which are enough to encourage any design professional or student to start 'thinking green'."--Jacket




More Packaging Prototypes


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A follow-up to the successful Packaging Prototypes, More Packaging Prototypes acts a visual catalyst in the creation and production of exciting and innovative design. It is an invaluable tool for anyone working in packaging design. The diverse range of carton templates demonstrates the huge variety of packaging possibilities, and the beautifully photographed examples of the finished models inspire the imagination. Each design is accompanied by detailed notes that list its product suitability and distinguishing features. A system of icons provides quickly accessed information on a multiplicity of areas, from the design's ecological implications to its material suitability. Introductory text reviews the principles behind packaging, explores the concerns of packaging designers, and examines what makes a classic package. The various types of carton closure are detailed, and common materials listed.




Functional Packaging Prototypes


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Chosen according to their uniqueness, practicality and feasibility, all of the featured patterns in this volume are presented to the reader as both realised prototypes complete with graphics and as blank design templates to give a full understanding of the design concept. From these pages, the reader is encouraged to give their own flourish to the designs and put them into service: The design templates are collected on the included CD-Rom and ready for use and experimentation, making this book an ideal addition to the library of anyone looking for either inspiration or a practical starting point in the creation of a packaging structure.




Packaging Design


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The fully updated single-source guide to creating successful packaging designs for consumer products Now in full-color throughout, Packaging Design, Second Edition has been fully updated to secure its place as the most comprehensive resource of professional information for creating packaging designs that serve as the marketing vehicles for consumer products. Packed with practical guidance, step-by-step descriptions of the creative process, and all-important insights into the varying perspectives of the stakeholders, the design phases, and the production process, this book illuminates the business of packaging design like no other. Whether you're a designer, brand manager, or packaging manufacturer, the highly visual coverage in Packaging Design will be useful to you, as well as everyone else involved in the process of marketing consumer products. To address the most current packaging design objectives, this new edition offers: Fully updated coverage (35 percent new or updated) of the entire packaging design process, including the business of packaging design, terminology, design principles, the creative process, and pre-production and production issues A new chapter that puts packaging design in the context of brand and business strategies A new chapter on social responsibility and sustainability All new case studies and examples that illustrate every phase of the packaging design process A history of packaging design covered in brief to provide a context and framework for today's business Useful appendices on portfolio preparation for the student and the professional, along with general legal and regulatory issues and professional practice guidelines




Structural Packaging


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Unlike other packaging titles, which simply provide templates to copy, this book enables designers of all packaging types to create 3-D packaging forms that are specific to their needs rather than based on an existing design. It teaches a simple ‘net’ construction system – a one-piece 2-D configuration of card seen when a 3-D package is opened out and flattened – which enables the designer to create a huge number of very strong 3-D packaging forms that are both practical and imaginative. Each chapter concludes with photographs and net drawings of 6–10 creative examples of packaging designs made using the principles outlined in the preceding chapter. Structural Packaging gives the reader an understanding of the underlying principles of packaging construction and the technical knowledge and confidence to develop a greater number of their own unusual and innovative designs than any comparable book. Download the crease diagrams from the book for free at www.laurenceking.com




Packaging Prototypes 2


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Following on from the worldwide success of 'Packaging Prototypes 1', this title is a showcase of over sixty-five innovative and commercially successful pack closures. The way in which the product is opened or closed is one of the most important features o




Packaging Sustainability


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Packaging Sustainability Take the lead with sustainable package design solutions The classic role of packaging is to “Protect, Inform, and Sell.” Today, packaging must do all that—but with minimal eco-impact. Packaging Sustainability: Tools, Systems, and Strategies for Innovative Package Design is a comprehensive guide to thinking outside the box to create practical, cost-effective, and eco-responsible packaging. With a broad range of contributions from pioneers of sustainability, Packaging Sustainability not only describes the concepts of sustainability but reveals the logic behind them, providing you with the tools to sift through and adapt to the ever changing barrage of materials, services, regulations, and mandates. The book: Enables the designer to make smart, informed decisions at all points throughout the packaging design process Offers a comprehensive overview of sustainable packaging design issues from leading practitioners, designers, engineers, marketers, psychologists, and ecologists Describes materials and processes in current use and helps the reader understand how they interconnect With solid information and actionable ideas, Packaging Sustainability gives you all the tools for maximizing a product’s shelf impact—while minimizing its ecological footprint.




Principles of Package Design


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Apply design principles to your classes, preparing them for reuse. You will use package design principles to create packages that are just right in terms of cohesion and coupling, and are user- and maintainer-friendly at the same time. The first part of this book walks you through the five SOLID principles that will help you improve the design of your classes. The second part introduces you to the best practices of package design, and covers both package cohesion principles and package coupling principles. Cohesion principles show you which classes should be put together in a package, when to split packages, and if a combination of classes may be considered a "package" in the first place. Package coupling principles help you choose the right dependencies and prevent wrong directions in the dependency graph of your packages. What You'll LearnApply the SOLID principles of class designDetermine if classes belong in the same packageKnow whether it is safe for packages to depend on each other Who This Book Is For Software developers with a broad range of experience in the field, who are looking for ways to reuse,share, and distribute their code