Food packaging is everywhere. More often than not these days people shop at a supermarket, this is where most products have to compete with each other on a huge scale and packaging is just as important as price. Here are some fantastic examples of good, modern packaging design that are arriving on the scene on a regular basis, in our regular supermarkets but also in individual shops where there is less competition.

For your average holiday card, an ordinary envelope is perfectly acceptable especially when you're sending more than one. However if you want to send a card to someone very special, you need an excellent Christmas envelope to go with it. Here's some inspiration to make a remarkable envelope.

Gift card envelopes are among the most common of the packaging materials that are available in the market today. They are, furthermore, very popular.

This article is actually intended to bring to light some things that we wish to know about the cards. First of all, we will discuss the purpose of the cards, and secondly, we are going to discuss at length the many things that you can do in order to eliminate the dullness of your greeting cards.

Basically, the welcome or greeting cards are used as part of the packaging material. When you are sending a gift to someone, the package by itself will not be enough, you need a separate paper or card which will contain the address and the name of the sender. Needless to say, the same card or piece of special paper will also contain information about the receiver.

The aforementioned paragraph actually contains the reason as to why we have the greeting or welcome cards. Basically, every package that we send needs to have this card. Without it, your package is as good as lost. This could not be more true if you are sending a special package, a gift for example. Basically, the gift needs to have an introductory message of some sort, and there is not other place in the package that can contain this message other than the greeting card.

Now, let us go to the issue of what we need to do in order to make the greeting or welcome card more exciting. The best thing to do, as a matter of fact, is to put a variety of colors into your greeting card. This will automatically remove the boredom level to a great extent. Of course, there are plenty of things that you can add to make sure that the greeting card is very exciting. For instance, you can change the font style. There are exciting font styles that are available in the internet.

Basically, however, you have to be particularly careful when it comes to the selection of the font and the color. While it is generally true that these two can positively affect your package, you must also be aware of the fact that you need to make sure that they match the occasion. gift card envelopes, therefore, call for light and lively colors. After all, they are intended as gifts, and your gift must be one with the celebratory moment. 

It seems the companies never tire of making limited edition versions of their products and along with the 'limited' name tag usually comes some fairly special packaging.

The above image shows an ordinary bottle of Jack Daniels in comparison with a limited edition 'Sinatra Select' bottle, in honour of Frank Sinatra who was a big fan of the drink.

This limited edition bottle of Bombay Sapphire is to celebrate their 250th anniversary. The stopper was specially designed by creative director Stephan Webster.

Limited edition Nutella jars that focus on the roots of the product - Italy. With Several different designs and good quality packaging, it is a highly desirable product for consumers.

All images via Packaging of the World

Of what use will a cardboard shoe box be to you? We have often asked this question, especially that these boxes come in huge quantities in our house. Basically, these boxes are very common and we want to at least make a good use for them if we cannot throw them away.

Is it really wise to dispose of the boxes? Well, not really. The boxes have a lot of good uses at home. Basically, the boxes are actually pretty well built. After all, they are made to contain shoes and sandals. These boxes are sturdy, and they are durable. As a matter of fact, you can even use them as home to your pet rats, gerbils, birds, and even your cats.

But, can you use them as containers for your expensive and precious keepsakes? Definitely, yes. As we have said earlier, these boxes are pretty tough and pretty well built. They would certainly make good containers for your expensive items.

The boxes, by themselves, are excellent places already. But, since you are planning to make them as containers for your expensive collections, then you might as well add some things to them so that the containers would be as sentimental as those which they carry.

For instance, you can paint the boxes. The color of the paint, of course, would depend entirely on your taste. Basically, if you wish to use a wide range of colors for your boxes, you may do so, and no one would question you. However, it is advised that the color should at least match the colors of the things that you place inside. In other words, they should complement each other. They should not necessarily have the same colors, but they should at least be complementary.

Furthermore, it will also be good if you add more things to the insides of the boxes. Basically, since you will be putting your precious collections in these boxes, you might as well add some decorations inside. For instance, you might want to put some internal linings in your boxes to add beauty to them. You can apply a layer of silk or linen which would give the feeling of rarity or wealth.

At any rate, it is totally unwise to throw away your cardboard shoe box. Indeed, as we have mentioned many times in this article, these boxes do have a lot of uses than you can begin to imagine.

Adorable Paper Bag Designs

Giraffe themed chocolates

If you are looking for cheap bubble wrap to sustain your packing business, then there is only one place where you can get what you want. Fortunately, this place is not a Shangri-la, it is a place that is very familiar to us all: the internet.

Indeed, the internet is the best place in the world to buy things at the cheapest possible price. If you wish to get any kind of items, and if you wish to get these items with minimal cost on your part, then the internet will be the place for you. Basically, it is much, much cheaper to get things here that to actually go to a market to buy your stuff. In the first place, you do not need to pay for fare, or for gas, for that matter. Truly, pretty much everything that you can buy in the market can be bought in the internet, at half the price. And, for this particular issue on bubble wraps, if you wish to get the cheapest of these wraps, then the internet would be the most ideal place to go.

The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of websites offering inexpensive packing materials. However, you should learn how to properly look for which website to go to. For example, many of these websites actually sell in bulk. In other words, if you are just the regular shopper who is looking for a single product, then you have to be more specific when you do the searching. Indeed, it is no longer that difficult nowadays, thanks to the automated search engines like Google, or Yahoo.

If you are on the business of packing, then your search would be relatively easier. This is primarily because the vast majority of the websites online are actually businesses selling in bulk or in large quantities. Of course, it is in your best interest to order in bulk, because you would save more this way. It is perhaps fortunate on your part as a buyer that the competition nowadays is very intense. Basically, you would be able to find dozens of these websites, and it might be a little difficult for you to choose which is which. The good part of this is that you will be guaranteed that you will get the best deals, relatively speaking. Because of this competition, your problem of choosing cheap bubble wrap is made easier and more comfortable.

Moving from one place to another has been proven time and again to be a very complicated exercise. There are just so many logistical complications involved. Even if we set this aside, we still have to deal with the fact that things at home would be very messy once you start with the process of moving. This is where double wall cardboard boxes come in.

First of all, we need to discuss the importance of cardboard box. Basically, the box has a lot of uses at home, primarily in organizing things. Just imagine where your kids’ toys would be if you do not have a box to help you out. That being said, boxes are even more useful when you are moving from one home to another. As we have established earlier, transferring homes is a very difficult activity, and it is made even more complicated by the fact that your home becomes a hellish place because of the things which are scattered everywhere.

Therefore, the very first thing that you need to do with regards to your board box is for you to first pack the things which are not used on a daily basis. For instance, decorative items should be the first to go because, well, you have no practical uses for these items – you certainly would not be inviting anyone around to show off your house. Doing this effectively simplifies things a great deal because you would feel that your house is decluttered in a lot of ways. More importantly, packing these decorative items first and putting them in a specified and labelled box would not give you the hassle of unpacking that box because you have placed a valuable material inside – a knife, for instance.

Books, DVDs, movies, or games should also be given priority in your boxes. They should be packed next because you would not really think about playing or reading while your mind is preoccupied with things involving your moving. Of course, you can set aside a book or two (probably the latest book you have acquired) in case you get bored or anything.

As we have established earlier, it is always practical and wise to mark and label your boxes. As a matter of fact, proper labelling would determine the convenience or inconvenience of the entire moving activity. If you do not label your cardboard boxes, you would end up being confused, and confusion would lead to all kinds of chaos.

One of the most popular premium vodka brands of all time, started out with some of the most unimaginative packaging ever seen. Based on the style of bottle used to store Swedish medicine (a cultural icon that remained unchanged for more than 100 years) Absolut Vodka packaging appeared to be nothing special, in fact a little bit boring. Despite being a prestigious Swedish brand for a number of years success in a greater playing field was needed and the US market became their next target. With such unimaginative packaging however most American distributors turned down the product but eventually one importing company had the insight to take them on. It was at this point that the iconic imprinted medallion was added and the product was sold overseas. This simple style of bottle (and great tasting vodka) was a bigger success that anyone could have imagined. In just 6 years it over-took its Finish and Russian competitors to be the best selling vodka brand in the united states. Only then did it's packaging start to get inventive.

The United Kingdom is one of the countries all over the world which has withstood the battering of the global financial meltdown. It is because of this reason that the country’s economy has continued to rise despite this, and it is also the reason why packaging suppliers in the UK are considered to be among the world’s most respected.

There are actually a very large number of suppliers and packing supply manufacturers in the country so choosing which among them is most ideal to you can be a bit tricky. At any rate, here is a small list of the top packing materials’ providers. Of course, we will not identify what these companies are, we will simply give the initials of the said companies.

OPS is considered to be a prime producer and provider of packing materials. The company has lots of experience in the field, around 5 decades, and it has provided for various companies and organizations all throughout the country and beyond. They also have a website which you can check out so that you will see their services for yourself. The website also allows you to order online.

Another company in the country will be identified in this article as SBB. Basically, this is a very tough competition for the OPS company we have mentioned in the earlier paragraph. This company offers the same services as the OPS. They have limited experience, but they are excellent providers of postal packing materials all over the United Kingdom. Perhaps the best thing about this company is the fact that they offer discounts and other sales gimmick to entice customers. Of course, almost all of the companies in the country are doing this, especially in these times of pretty intense competition.

The third and the last company which I will mention is the W (because the company name is made up of only one letter). This is relatively new in the business, but in the few years that it has provided packing materials to various groups, it has proven themselves worthy of its spot at the top. Basically , this company specializes on boxes, but it also markets other types of packing materials.

The most interesting thing about UK’s packaging suppliers is the fact that there is little chance that you will be shortchanged. Because of the intensity of the competition, there is little company out there which would be foolish enough to do it.