Packaging Design (Part 9)

Practice packaging design in this art lesson: packaging design (part 9).

🎨 Studio Brief #45

Design a cereal box or product package.

🎯 Your mission

Make it look like the idea — at one glance.

⚡ The twist

Make it readable from across the room.

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

Drawing paperScissorsGlueColored pencils

Step 1 of 4

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

Step 2 of 4

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

Step 3 of 4

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

Step 4 of 4

Build a 3D box from cardboard, then wrap it with your designed panels.

Did you know?

🤯 Mind = Blown

🤯 Helvetica (the font) is 70 years old and still on almost every street sign.

🌟 Artist Spotlight

🎨 The Nike swoosh was designed for $35 by a college student.

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: Design a logo for your bedroom door.

👨‍👩‍👧 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.