Packaging
ren_nay (47 pencils) | Fri, 2008-09-19 01:24I have 4 postcards which I need to package (for a cabinet making business, they make/design kitchens) their kitchens are very stylish and have won many awards target market is: second home buyers, mid-high income earners, men and women but a little more focus on the women as they are the decision makers generally when it come to kitchens.
Key words of company: style, shopistication, quality, reliability, unique.
ok so the postcards are A6 and have rounded corners I was thinking of packaging them in a cardboard box or maybe even a tin with round corners I need to do a mock up and can seem to find anywhere that sells the tins as a one off I have to buy like 1000 of them and as for the carboard box idea is it possible to create a carboard box with round corners that I can make up myself?
ok so my questions to you are:
+ do you know anywhere you can buy those sort of tins one off?
+ is it possible to create a carboard box with round corners that I can make up myself?
+ does anyone have any exciting ideas for packaging 4 postacrds with rounded corners?
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You can still get square boxes for those rounded cornered postcards. :)
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Natobasso
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Yes true but I am using round corners and shapes with round corner sthrough out my branding and promorional materials i.e letter head with comps slips postcards, business card, brochure etc and I really need to tie that into my packaging.
You can also print rounded corners on square packaging. Think outside the box. :)
Would something like an Altoids box fit the bill or is that too small?
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Natobasso
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This site is a global supplier, mainly of chinese products, with lots of rounded corner, metal boxes:
http://www.globalsources.com/manufacturers/Metal-Gift-Box.html
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Natobasso
dirtandrust.com
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Seeing your card design would really help source the right box...
http://dgjbl.manufacturer.globalsources.com/si/6008822439900/pdtl/Gift-box/1003278211/Metal-Gift-Box.htm
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Natobasso
dirtandrust.com
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my card design is pretty simple nothing too flash or exciting :) I am a newbie at all this I am a university graduate of design and marketing but a newbie to being out in the industry.
Thanks for the link I will post my card design
Again the colours have come up terrible when I exported it as a jpeg not too sure how to combat this the purple is very different colour.
The pink is just a die line not part of design
See what I mean about not doing your layouts in Illustrator? :) InDesign makes it much easier to Export to jpg, pdf, or other format. Illustrator's export function is a lot clunkier.
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Natobasso
dirtandrust.com
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having probs with photobucket will upload tommorrow :)
ren-nay, I like the idea of the tin box, since they would have potential resuse in a kitchen. I would google tin + crafts + wholesale and see what you come up with. Here's one place I found http://www.gift-crafts-onsale.com/buy-tin_box/ .
Mara
Thanks Mara I will check out the website
Yeah I guess I should become more familar with ID I am more comfortable with Illustrator but time to get out of the comfort zone :) I have a couple of magazine ads I have to do soon so I will def be doing them in ID
I was told though that buiness card with just text and colours and no photo's are best done in illustrator but if they have photo's do it in ID what are your thoughts on this?
indesign will handle the text better than illustrator. a business card could be done equally well in either program. i'd still do it in indesign, personally, because that's my go-to program. but there could be additional benefits to doing cards in indesign.
if you're doing two sided cards, it's just one file, not two separate files.
if you're running automation to insert contact info into cards, indesign will do that for you and set up a file with multiple cards in one file. even if the printer is doing it, they may appreciate being able to do that in indesign. but i would prefer to do that myself, since i can proof the names electronically myself before sending them.
illustrator's main benefits over indesign come into play with more complicated illustrations. if you have a complicated illustration/graphic, it's better to create that in illustrator and then place it in indesign.
think of it this way. the general way to use the suite (there's no "one and only" way, but this is the generally accepted workflow) is to use PS to edit/create bitmaps/photos, Illy to create/edit vector illustrations/graphics, and indesign to gather those different elements and combine them with text on the page.
if you're just working on one page, illustrator could suffice. but i still tend to use indesign unless it's just the illustration/graphic.
Good advice. I'd only add that the bleed required for one side of this card will be easier to set up for the printer in ID or any other layout app. If it goes to press as Illustrator, it'll need crop & registration marks. I might be wrong, since I don't use Illustrator for layouts, but I don't think Illustrator has an auto feature for that -- does it?
Mara
it can be done, but it takes more work and knowledge of the program. it's not built into the print dialog box.
+1
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Natobasso
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You may for future refrence like to check out http://www.tinplate-products.com/
Tinplate are a client of ours, who as well as winning a number of design awards, are established enough to provide short bespoke runs of packaging for a project like this, or expand your design to provide wholesale packaging.
cretainly worth taking a look anyway!