A simple guide to help you prepare your packaging project, understand the process and communicate more clearly with designers and manufacturers.
Packaging projects can feel technical very quickly.
Between formats, materials, dielines, MOQs, samples, finishes, tooling and production timelines, it can be difficult to know what information matters, what questions to ask, or what certain terms even mean.
The Packaging Project Starter was created to help you feel more prepared before speaking with a designer or manufacturer, understand the language they use and keep the important information organised throughout the project.
This workspace is not designed to replace a packaging designer, manufacturer, packaging engineer or production specialist.
It won’t design your packaging, engineer a custom structure, determine whether a material is suitable for your product, guarantee production feasibility or make supplier decisions for you.
Instead, it helps you understand the process, prepare more useful information and communicate more confidently with the people responsible for those decisions.
You do not need to know everything before starting your packaging project.
Some answers will only become clear once you speak with your designer, manufacturer or supplier. Use this workspace to prepare what you can, identify what you don’t know yet and keep track of the answers as the project develops.