Dutch Packaging Design

Yes, again a new Bonroyaal packaging design from Stepfive for Aldi Netherlands. This time for pure and milk chocolate pralines with crunchy filling in a foil bag. The wrappers for the pralines themselves were also designed by Stepfive.

Yet another new brand for Aldi Netherlands, designed and conceptualized by Stepfive. Meet ‘Delicious Home’, a mark that stands for a tasty range of (sometimes raw) dough products, such as croissants, pancakes and a typical Dutch specialty: poffertjes.

The packaging design for these pancakes and poffertjes are dressed up with bright, traditional table-cloth patterns and tasteful product visuals.

Faam (part of Astra Sweets Ltd.) asked Stepfive to redesign their range of doypack candies with a clear communication of the product(s) inside. This new packaging design therefore has an important role for product photography in order to establish a maximum of impulse purchase and is appealing to young and old, man and woman.

At Dutch website Groene Offerte you’ll find loads of interesting packaging design related articles, opinions and other stuff (all in Dutch). Especially the serie ‘Food for Thought’ gives entertaining and remarkable examples of packaging design in all its aspects, good or bad.
Groene Offerte is established for the complete design industry. The site is set up to grow: more and more contacts, knowledge and new insights. In this way Groene Offerte wants to help and encourage the design industry with their key role of this industry in the sustainable development of society and economy.

Food for Thought at Groene Offerte (all in Dutch).

Look-O-Look, the Dutch candy producer with ‘The most delicious candies in one bag’ asked Stepfive Communication & Design to create candy boxes for the Out of Home segment. Each box is filled with 75 mini flowpacks in different flavours. Concept and packaging design of the boxes and mini flowpacks are integrated within the current line of Look-O-Look’s mixbags and familybags, which are done by Stepfive too.

Throwing a party? Make it extra festive with Aldi’s ‘PartyGebak’ (Party Pastries). Stepfive created the new packaging design for the complete range of PartyGebak products in The Netherlands and also created the new branding.
A visually appealing, festive and joyous packaging design that lightens up every party and any other moment of fun.

Few people eat an orange peel, but it is edible. We do eat the peels of other fruits, like peaches and apples. The peel is a kind of durable, biodegradable packaging. The fact that these fruits come in their own built-in packaging is convenient. It means they do not have to be sold in boxes or bags.

That idea is the inspiration behind a company that David Edwards has founded. He wants to change the way we package and eat food. His vision is that one day you will go to the supermarket and, instead of buying cartons of juice and cans of soup, you will fill your cart up with balls of food and drink.

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For the launch of a ready-to-eat Oat Porridge concept to the Dutch market, we devised the name ‘QuickStart’ and the pay-off. The name describes a quick preparation and the moment of consumption. It’s based on Kickstart, so there’s a strong reference to terms like ‘energy boost’ and, besides that, it’s multilingual as well. This fashionable name will easily fit between similar products on the shelves.

Stepfive created this packaging design for Maître Paul’s Warme Appeltaart (Warm Apple Pie) and Slagroom Feesttaart (Party Cream Cake). The design for the apple pie box is a combination of the recognizable Maître Paul yellow color and a warm productvisual with an oven in the background. The cream cake box is also a combination of Maître Paul’s yellow color,  with colorful and festive productvisuals of the cream cake added. The boxes are decorated with fun white graphics.

For the Dutch company Zwanenberg Food Group, Stepfive created this serie of packaging labels for a range of tasteful snacks. The bright red color used in all labels really draws your attention and makes the packages stand out on store shelves.