Packaging Design

Practice packaging design in this art lesson: packaging design.

🎨 Studio Brief #5

Design a cereal box or product package.

🎯 Your mission

Pick one font. Pick one color. Pick one shape.

⚡ The twist

One color only.

What you'll learn

Design a cereal box or product package. Packaging design combines illustration, typography, and marketing to catch the consumer's eye.

Get ready

Techniques you'll practise

packaging designproduct illustrationcommercial art

GlueColored pencilsDrawing paperScissors

Step 1 of 3

Choose a product to design packaging for: cereal, juice, candy, or a new invention.

Step 2 of 3

Plan the front panel: product name, illustration, key selling points.

Step 3 of 3

Design side panels with ingredients, nutrition facts (make them up), and company logo.

Did you know?

🤯 Mind = Blown

🤯 The 'recycle' triangle was designed by a 23-year-old in 1970.

🌟 Artist Spotlight

🎨 Saul Bass (the movie poster designer) made *Vertigo* with a spiral and a triangle.

You did it!

🎯

We'll pick an art project that matches exactly where your skills are right now.

✨ More to explore

🌍 Where you see this: Every menu, app, and sign you've ever read was designed by someone like you.

🏆 Try this week: Redesign one boring sign you saw today. Make it better.

👨‍👩‍👧 At dinner: “If you could design the logo for our family, what would it look like?”

Send it to a parent looking for a 15-minute screen-free creative win.