Dutch Packaging Design

Chocolate eggs, gift eggs, egg shaped cookies, hollow Easter treasures characters, chocolate Easter bunnies, caramel eggs, Easter eggs filled with chocolates, bunny shaped cookies, chocolate covered cookie bunnies. Want more? Decorated easter characters, Chocolate easter coins, beanie bunnies and chocolate egg lollies. Just to name a few.
All of these were packed in packaging design created by Stepfive for Aldi Netherlands.

Last year there were still a few design agencies and food photographers present. Unfortunately, this 4th edition of the Packaging Innovations Event in Zaandam has become more and more a representation of the printing industry. Of course it’s always nice to meet colleagues in the profession to speak with, but you can barely still call it ‘the most innovative and inspirational packaging event’. Next year, a new opportunity?

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A few months ago Stepfive created new foils for Aviko Foodservice Pom’ Fraîches. And now Stepfive was also asked to create the new packaging foils for their new product range: Premium Pom’ Fraîches. This packaging design resulted in a strong line of transparent foils with a full-colour print on top. Every different taste has its own unique colour and its own unique and tasteful visual. Premium Pom’ Fraîches has a higher positioning strategy than the ‘normal’ Pom’ Fraîches. The packaging is easy to use and recognizable for the professional who is used to the high standard of Dutch company Aviko.

Flavours of the Sun is a new Aldi Netherlands private label for mediterranean products (spreads mostly) like houmous and aioli. Stepfive conceptualized and created the complete brand identity for this new brand and also made the packaging labels for these products.

Typically packaged in pairs are these delicious Time4Choco! chocolate mini-bars for Aldi Netherlands. The bars consist of a biscuit finger with caramel on top, surrounded by a milk chocolate topping. Stepfive created silver foil wrappers for the Cookie Power mini-bars inside the bag, but also did the packaging design for the complete silver foil bag.

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).

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.

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!