Packaging Design Tips

So, what aspects should we use to master the skills of packaging design?

Here are three main points: First, the grasp of color techniques; Second, the grasp of composition skills; Third, the grasp of cultural connotation.

First, the grasp of color skills

Color techniques should be noted from the following points: First, the relationship between color and packaging; and second, the contrast between color and color. These two points are the key to the use of color.

(a) The care of color and packaging

Then, where should we talk about the relationship between color and packaging? Mainly through the external packaging color can reveal or reflect the inner packaging items. It allows people to basically perceive or think of what the inner package is. For this question, I have mentioned it many times in the past articles, but if we can come to the store to get a look at the goods, many products do not reflect this relationship of care. So that consumers can not think of what to pack things from the table and inside. Of course, there is no positive sales promotion for the sales of products. The normal external packaging color should grasp this same characteristic to varying degrees;

(1) From the industry's point of view, the normal color of foods is expressed in its main colors: yellow and pink to give people warmth and closeness. Of course, many teas are green, beverages are green and blue, liquors and pastries are made of big red, children's foods are made of rose, and daily cosmetics are normally used. The main colors are mostly rosy, pink, light green, light blue, dark brown, to highlight the warm and elegant feeling, clothing and shoes and hats are mostly dark green, dark blue, brown or gray, to highlight the calm Heavy and elegant beauty.

(2) In terms of performance characteristics, in terms of food alone, cakes and pastries use golden, yellow, and light yellow to give people the impression of scent. People like tea and beer use red or green, symbolizing tea. Rich and aromatic; tomato juice, apple juice more red, concentrated to show the nature of the item. Although some packages do not use the same colors as the ones mentioned above in terms of the main colors, if you look closely at the design of the package, it is in the context of its outer packaging. There must be a symbolic color block, color point, color line, or focused content highlighted in that color. This should be everyone's proud job. Some clothing packaging and some cosmetic packaging, and even some wine packaging can find a lot of such examples.

(B) the contrast between color and color

Besides, the contrast between color and color. This is the easiest thing to do in many commodity packaging but it is very difficult to grasp. In the design from the master, the wound effect of the package is snow white, otherwise, is the lower Riba. In Chinese calligraphy and painting, such a saying is often popular. It is airtight and sparse. In fact, it is a kind of contrast relationship. In the packaging design, this contrast is very obvious and very common. These so-called comparisons generally have the following contrasts: the contrast between the use of colors, the contrast of the use of colors, the point-to-point ratio of color use, the contrast between the use of colors, the contrast between the use of color and the contrast of color, and the contrast of color Contrast and so on.

(1) The contrast of the color used. This appears to be the most frequent use of color in the current packaging design, and it is the most widely used. It is very common in many graphic designs (such as posters, hanging scrolls, or dressmaking). The so-called contrast between the shades and depths should mean that the design uses two colors, shades of color, to simultaneously appear cleverly on one screen and produce a more coordinated perspective. It is usually used as a light-colored base with a large area, on which a dark composition, such as a light yellow base, is used to compose a composition in brown, or a yellowish or white pattern is used in a brown color patch; With a light green bottom; dark green composition; pink bottom; large red composition; light gray bottom; soap black composition and so on. These are all shades of contrast in color, and in this form we can design packaging on some cosmetic packaging or on some western wine packaging, especially Western wine packaging. Chinese Changyu wines and Shuanghui's sausage sausages as well as Xijie's meat packaging are mostly expressed in this form. This form of packaging is also common in Japan and South Korea. Its visual effects are clear, simple, gentle, and elegant.

(2) The use of color for contrast (or contrast) is one of the important methods of reproduction. This kind of contrast is often accompanied by a deep and solemn motif on a light and elegant background, or in a heavy, solemn motif (mostly with color patches). Shows the theme and name of light and elegant packaging, as well as trademarks or slogans. In turn, it also uses a large area of ​​deep dignified pigments. Another light and elegant tone or focus on a certain color block or fully decorate some patterns. In this light contrast, the general pigments have a harmonized color contrast and a cool and warm color contrast. The methods of harmonizing color contrasts are often light green to dark green; light yellow to deep coffee; pink to red, etc., while the contrast between cold and warm colors is mostly Black and white, red and blue and so on.