Dutch Packaging Design

Food for Thought at ‘De Groene Offerte‘. Short thoughts on big themes or other interesting articles. This one’s a brief report on Dutch packaging design of tea and why it’s growing bigger and bigger.
Read here (in Dutch only).

Wrapitt (Kitchen Aid) is one the new household brands that was introduced by Aldi Netherlands the last few months. Wrapitt consists of products like carbage bags, aluminum foils, fresh foils, (doggy) bags, culinary parchment paper, freezer bags and so on. Brand identity and all packaging design was conceptualized and created by Stepfive Communication & Design BNO.

New ready-to-eat meals for Aldi’s Oriental Delight in a fresh and contemporary new packaging design. Each different take away meal has its own colour signing at the upper side of the box and a tasteful food visual on the front. The Oriental Delight brand was designed and conceptualized by Stepfive in an earlier stadium for several other products (see here) for Aldi Netherlands.

The new packaging design with colour signed strip on it designed by Stepfive for the Maître Paul’s bars as mentioned here, meanwhile has been implemented in the complete range of Maître Paul cakes, gateaux, cream puffs and so on. You can see the appetizing result of a small part of this complete Maître Paul range above.

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.