Retailers and brands use packaging design of their products far too little as a marketing tool. ”The story of retail is a game of seduction in shelves. Consumers make their choice, brands and retailers are there to respond more” says Birgit Kamp of Tetra Pak Benelux.
Read more here (in Dutch).
What’s more Italian than pizza? Mama Mancini fresh pizza’s from Aldi Netherlands of course! Stepfive created new packaging design for them with appetizing visuals of the ingredients and a metal plate on a wooden table. Each different flavour has its own colour signing and a pizza-shaped window is cut out, so customers are able to see the actual product inside.
More Mama Mancini by Stepfive here.
The countdown to the FIFA 2014 World Cup in Brazil has started, so merchandising and marketing campaigns are running overtime already. Zwanenberg Food Group asked Stepfive to create an original packaging design for their ‘soccer snacks’ in The Netherlands and to support the Dutch soccer team in Brazil. And so we did. The result: a carton stadium which can be used as a blow soccer board game! First take out the plate with the delicious snacks of course. Then cut out the goals with scissors. When this is done, the stadium is almost ready to use. Just take two straws, a little ball and let the games begin!
In addition to the Chocofun and Peanuts packaging design as shown here, Stepfive also created the design for the Choco Crunch packaging. These crispy balls covered with Belgian chocolate also go under the brand Choco Time! for Aldi Netherlands.
Stepfive created a broad range of new packaging design for Aviko foodservice Pom’ Fraîches. The new packaging consists of transparent foils with a print on top with a unique colour for each different Pom’ Fraîches product.
Aviko, originally a Dutch company, is one of the four largest potato processing companies in the world and part of Royal Cosun, who became sole owner of Aviko in 2002.
Ian Lifshitz (sustainability director for the Americas for Asia Pulp & Paper Group) wrote an interesting article at Food and Beverage Packaging on trends in sustainable food packaging. The article explains five contemporary trends: traceability, food waste reduction, labeling, reusable packaging and finally responsibly grown.
Read more here.
New packaging design for Maître Paul’s Black Forest, Mocha and Dairy Cream bars, conceptualized and executed by Stepfive. Eyecatchers are the tasteful product visuals on each box, next to the strip with the productname and Maître Paul logo on it. Each taste has its own colour signing for the strip. The recognizable yellow background (as seen with other Stepfive designs for Maître Paul) is decorated with little white graphics.
The brand Choco Time! contains a wide range of chocolate and candy products for Aldi Netherlands. The packaging design for the doypacks as shown above was created by Stepfive. There are two delicious products: Chocofun (button-shaped chocolates with a candie shell) and Peanuts (same, but with an extra peanut inside).
For the Italian feel products of Aldi Netherlands the brand ‘Mama Mancini’ was created. Now Stepfive extended this range of products for Aldi with ready-to-eat pasta meals.
The carton sleeves have a new design and a tasteful visual of the traditional Italian food that’s inside the packaging.
Wondering how far you can push your packaging design to the limit? Designer Ewan Yap presents his ”Big Brand Theory” on Behance with some major and iconic brands (think Heineken, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Red Bull etc.). His beautiful work is an experiment in brand aesthetics, and also informs us on the cropability of logos in terms of image cropability.
Check out the cropability of a brand (or the guts to leave things out).
