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Should I Hire a Packaging Design Company or a Design Freelancer?

It’s no secret that your product’s packaging is the key driver of sales at the point-of-purchase. You know it, and we know it. We don’t need to tell you that 72 percent of your customers will make their purchasing decisions based on the quality of your design. We don’t need to tell you that your…

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7 Tips for Competitive Package Design.

It’s hard to stand out on the shelf, but brands have considerable options for making an impact with their customers. With how competitive the current retail market is, it’s not surprising that so many companies are looking to give their brands a boost with a revitalized packaging campaign. And while you shouldn’t let the “rules”…

Design

Package Design Trends for 2018

Nothing stays the same – not the lines on your face nor the leaves in the fall, neither Coke bottles nor Starbucks coffee cups. Time marches on. Woe is the consumer. Try to keep up. In spite of how aversive consumers are to change, packaging trends evolve. There’s always something new on the horizon, so…

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Packaging Design Awards & Competitions

Over the years we found ourselves searching the internet for competitions to submit work for SmashBrand.  What we noticed was the lack of a single source of information for CPG packaging design awards and competitions. Here is a curated list of packaging design competitions we’ve found over the years, and we hope this helps other…

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