Recommended books for packaging design

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Packaging Sustainability:
Tools, Systems and Strategies for Innovative Package Design

"Though the book's case studies focus on package design, its message is applicable to all disciplines... Packaging Sustainability avoids typical green clichés and delivers clarity and breadth on sustainable design practice."

Kristian Bjørnard

ID Magazine, May 2009

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Structural Packaging: Design Your Own Boxes and 3D Forms

Unlike other packaging titles, which simply provide templates to copy, this book enables designers of all packaging types to create 3-D packaging forms that are specific to their needs rather than based on an existing design. It teaches a simple net construction system a one-piece 2-D configuration of card seen when a 3-D package is opened out and flattened which enables the designer to create a huge number of very strong 3-D packaging forms that are both practical and imaginative.

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Packaging 01: An Essential Primer for Today's Competitive Market

This book focuses on developing, creating and implementing package designs, while others in the series dissect brochures, logos, publications, and letterhead systems. Each book offers all the essential information needed to execute strong designs in concert with beautiful and well-crafted examples, so readers can successfully hit the mark every time.

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Packaging Design: Successful Product Branding from Concept to Shelf

Packaging Design: Successful Product Branding from Concept to Shelf is the most comprehensive resource of practical and professional information for creating packaging designs that serve as the marketing vehicles for consumer products. Packed with real-world advice, step-by-step descriptions of the creative process, and all-important insights into the stakeholders, the design process, and the production process, this book illuminates the business of packaging design like no other.