30 Examples of Layout Design in Packaging and Label Stickers - You The Designer

Gone are the days when we buy products that are placed in generic and boring boxes. Today, companies and their manufacturers plan ahead when it comes to their product's packaging design and the label stickers that come with it. Although packaging design was already thought of by the pioneering spirits of the 19th century (or even earlier), it's only in the past century where designers focused on the functional design of a product and its packaging, and from there everything just got better and better for the consumers. As the process of product design becomes more elaborate and more user-oriented, the more it becomes streamlined by the graphic design community. Looking at different examples of packaging designs and label stickers, you’ll find a common treatment in their designs aside from the unusual and eccentric — color palettes, typography use, text treatment and placement, and other related data for specific products. Illustration and Package Design for Sweets Metrio Coffee Packaging Ro and Co. Studio Pams Budget Range Packaging Antidote Packaging Waldo Trommler Paints Balderson Cheese Chocolat Factory Tine Melk Mountain Milk Metrio Tea Fox Retro Collection A Special Set for Spicy Experience The Spotted Cow Fruita Blanch Sabadi Corporate Identity Packaging Design Musli Packaging Gourmet Cafeteria Hathor Creamery Einem Chocolate Packaging Birdy Juice

Creative Use of Typography in Magazine Covers

No matter how popular digital media today, print is still one of the best places to showcase various creative awesomeness. One common application is through designing magazines. And to make an iconic magazine issue is not just by creating awesome inside stories but most especially in maximizing creativity in the cover design.

The typical design we usually see on magazine covers are a combination of the usual design elements such as text, logo, photographs and other graphics. However some magazines covers can stand out by using only one of these elements like the use of typography alone. How come? Then lets take a look on various examples we collected to showcase how typography combined with a creative concept, effects and brilliant composition can create a unique design for a magazine cover.

Fukt Magazine (Germany) | Art direction and design: Ariane Spanier
Editor: Bjorn Hegardt | Source

The Guitar Magazine (US) | Source

Idealog (New Zealand) | Editor: Hazel Phillips | Art direction: Aimee Carruthers | Source

Jetzt (Germany) | Art direction: Joanna Swistowski | Source

Billboard (US) | Creative Director: Andrew Horton | Source

The Guardian Guide (UK) | Source

2 days to go: Wallpaper | Design by Studio Frith | Source

100 issues Vogue Portugal | Art director José Santana | Source

Sport (UK) | Art Director: John Mahood | Design: Will Jack | Source

Italian Wall (Rolling Stone Magazine) | Source

IL (Italy) | Art Director: Francesco Franchi | Source

Metropoli (Spain) | Ace Art Direction by Rodrigo Sánchez | Source

NY Times Mag | Designed by Sean Freeman | Source

Popular Mechanics (US) | Design Director: Michael Lawton | Source

New York Times Mag | Type Illustration: Mike Lemanski | Source

Metropoli | Ace Art Direction: Rodrigo Sánchez | Source

ShortList Magazine | Source

Bloomberg Businessweek | Creative Director: Richard Turley | Source

Punkt | Publisher: Rino Borini | Source

Open Skies | Sweet type by Mitch Blunt  | Source

Style Arts | Source

Metrópoli | Ace Art Direction: Rodrigo Sánchez | Source

This Magazine | Artwork by Hyein Lee | Source

Gym Class Magazine | Source

ESPN Magazine | Source

Time Magazine | Source