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6 of The Best Liquor Bottle Designs for Your Inspiration.

As with any discretionary spending on non-essential items, the purchase of liquor is heavily dependent on buying into a lifestyle. People buy into a type of life, even if they do so subconsciously. We’re willing to bet you’re too smart to fall for those silly TV tricks showing off bikini-clad women and life-of-the-party guys dominated…

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The story behind Patrón’s Packaging design.

Consumers are all about looks when choosing which food and beverages to buy. This fact is evidenced by the unbridled success of the recurrent Carl’s Jr. ad campaign featuring Kate Upton, Heidi Klum, and other stars seductively chomping on a cheeseburger. Like Carl (or would it be Carl Jr.?), tequila maker Patrón also understands that…

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Case Study: 3 Packaging Lessons from the Olympics.

It makes perfect sense that certain brands’ packaging designs have capitalized upon the 2014 Winter Olympic Games. Clearly, bottled sports drinks, health foods and athletic equipment will probably experience a sales spike as consumers become enthusiastic about sports and fitness, but some products have nothing whatsoever to do with health or athletic performance that are…

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The Top 5 Complaints Consumers Have about Your Packaging.

Package designers are notorious for thinking of packaging concepts that appeal to package designers more than the general public. If they wind up on the shelves, these package designs could turn the packaging, marketing and whatever-product-they-contain’s world upside down. Or they could thoroughly confuse or offend the audience they’re trying to attract and bring shame…

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