Retail packaging
Retail packaging
Timeless and simple, with endless customisability
Plastic free & sustainable retail packaging designed and manufactured in Britain using sustainable card and paper.
Bespoke packaging design
Our design process
Whether you have a luxury or a mid-range product, we design high quality bespoke packaging, designed to complement your brand, connect with your customer and protect your product.
At the first stage of every project, we take the time to get to know you and your brand. Once we get a good understanding of what you’re looking for, along with any technical features you might want, we’ll have a team brainstorming session to come up with achievable and producible solutions, not just concepts. When we move to the design phase, we’ll need you to send us your product so we can design around it and offer a complete solution.
One stop shop
Our design team is built from a rare combination of graphic designers and brand experts, with structural engineers, and production technicians. When we work together, we have a complete specialist knowledge of the entire packaging process. We can offer more realistic ideas than a branding agency, and more innovative ideas than a packaging manufacturer.
Benefit from an independent studio
We’re an independent design studio, which means we aren’t linked to any particular packaging manufacturer, giving us the freedom to suggest the best possible solution and production methods for you. If you ask a tube manufacturer to design you some packaging – you’re going to get a tube. You could miss out on the big idea that could really sell your product.
Environmentally friendly packaging
Sustainability advice
We’re proactive in advising environmental and sustainable solutions for every packaging project we take on. This could be by offering alternatives to plastic and foam, or reducing them to a minimum and making them easy to separate for recycling. More suitable card materials can be sourced, that are not just sustainable and recyclable, but could also be a higher quality, possibly stronger and much better to print onto. All without compromising your brand.
Plastic free & reduced plastic packaging
Moving away from plastics is not always easy, with the importance of barriers and being able to view the product. Our designers will work with you to offer alternative solutions that securely protect your product.
Sustainable packaging doesn’t have to be brown and humble, we designed this eye-catching design for Chocolatey Clare using FSC sustainable card.
Recyclable packaging
As you are probably already well aware, recycling guidelines and rules are ever changing in the UK. By working with us, you can guarantee your packaging meets the national OPRL standards for recyclability. We can design packaging with fully recyclable materials, that are easy to separate, and give you the best practice advice for labelling your packaging.
Vegan packaging
If you’ve got a vegan friendly brand and product, the last thing you’ll want is to find out that your premium luxury high end packaging uses animal glue for the construction. By working with us, we can offer the extra certainty that your packaging is vegan too.
Reduce your carbon footprint
All our packaging is made in the UK and EU, using FSC certified materials sourced from market leading suppliers with whom we have long established relationships. This ensures the availability of high quality stock, with guaranteed and improved lead-times, as well as the assurance that your packaging hasn’t been on a world tour.
As well as recommending suitable materials and increasing the shipping efficiency, we design packaging that can be flat packed, and advise palletisation methods for pre-assembled units so that your packaging takes up fewer pallets.
Packaging prototypes
Production quality retail packaging prototypes
Our in-house studio workshop produces small batches of production quality packaging. Perfectly suited for showing to stakeholders, for pre-sales enquiries, promotional events, market testing, and TV productions.
We use the materials that we would specify for production, and offer colour matching alongside premium print finishes including embossing, foiling, lamination, spot gloss and metallics.
Printed prototyping can also be applied to bottles, tubes, cans and tins.
Some available finishes:
Retail packaging production
UK & EU production
The vast majority of our packaging production is manufactured here in the UK with our long established suppliers, with some specialist production done in Europe. We don’t source packaging from the far east in order to maintain full control over each and every project. If any issues do arise, we can react quickly to prevent any potential delays, ensuring we hit the agreed delivery date.
Short run production
We offer a short run production service as a cost effective solution from anywhere between 1 and 200 units, perfectly suited for start-ups, market testing or promotional events.
Popular box products
Sustainable packaging
Great design doesn’t always have to come at a great cost to you or our environment - and that was the brief for our packaging design for Cloud & Cuckoo. The final design was a gift box targeted at baby shower purchases, with full recycling credentials. The design features a combined product window and insert, for dual use and inbuilt separation process to encourage recycling. Single sided digital print keeps production costs low and makes the most of the brown kraft board.
Premium branded tags and sleeves
The ultimate in minimal packaging design - we can design premium labels with full sustainability credentials, available with a wide variety of premium materials and finishes.
Packaging for start-ups
Premium packaging doesn’t always have to break the bank. This presentation box for Ostique ostomy medical products was designed to use doubled over cartonboard, which allowed the boxes to be made using fully digital processes for a limited run of boxes. The prototype boxes were digitally cut, printed and varnished with a spot gloss all in our in house workshop.
Premium christmas advent calendar packaging
Whether you’re looking to package chocolates, beers or cosmetics, we can design a stunning advent calendar you’ll want to open all year round.
Creative Christmas cracker gift packaging
Whether you’re a year ahead or have a last minute idea you’d love to turn around for the festive season, we can help you design and produce custom shaped seasonal and christmas gift packaging. Our crackers, stars and advent calendars are fully bespoke.