20 Unusual and Creative Packaging Designs

April 4th, 2009 | Inspiration |

Even though the goal of modern retail packaging is to encourage potential buyers to purchase the product, clever packages can also be a great source of inspiration. This post showcases innovative and creative packaging design ideas from all over the world.

Floppy Diskette CD Packaging

“Science Vs. Witchcraft”, a band from Rochester, cleverly used 5.25″ Floppy diskettes for their CD Packaging. They removed the magnetic disk and replaced it with their CD. [link]

Floppy Diskette CD Packaging

Meat Shorts Packaging

Weird Clothing sells meat shorts in appropriate packaging with “Human meat” label. [link]

Meat Shorts Packaging

Reebok Exta Grip Packaging

Creative packaging idea for Reebok climbing shoes. [link]

Reebok Exta Grip Packaging

Wine Can

This unusual wine packaging, designed by Jens Andersson and Jonas Forsman, has won the 2006 Swedish packaging design award. [link]

Wine Can

Anti-Theft Lunch Bags

Sandwich bags that have green splotches printed on both sides, making your freshly prepared lunch look spoiled. Don’t suffer the injustice of having your sandwich stolen again! [link]

Anti-Theft Lunch Bags

Mr. Clean Dumbbell Packaging

Tommaso Ceschi designed this lovely innovative packaging which can act as a cleaning detergent container and a dumbbell! [link]

Mr. Clean Dumbbell Packaging

Tequila Gun Packaging

This liquor Gun looks very similar to .45 but instead of bullets it’s loaded with 200 ml of genuine Mexican tequila. [link, image]

Tequila Gun Packaging

360 Paper Bottle

World’s first totally recyclable paper container made from 100% renewable resources. Versatile in its range of consumer applications and made from food-safe and fully recyclable materials, it decreases energy consumed throughout the product life cycle without sacrificing functionality. [link]

360 Paper Bottle

Coca-Cola Ornaments

Holiday packaging by Coca-Cola, bottles that look like ornaments. [link]

Coca-Cola Ornaments

Nike Stadium Packaging

Limited number of Nike shoeboxes were transformed to house a stadium within by inserting a printed sheet of the stadium interior with embedded sound chips. So you could hear the crowd go wild when the box was opened. [link]

Nike Stadium Packaging

Resealable Soda Can

Creative packaging concept that allows for a soda can to be resealed called Soda-Seal. [link]

Resealable Soda Can

Banana Guard Packaging

A robust case that ensures your banana survives your travels in perfect condition. [link]

Banana Guard Packaging

Gloji Light Bulb Bottle

In originally designed light bulb shaped bottle, Gloji drink is all about energy, antioxidants and balanced health. Interesting package makes this product different from other drinks on the market. [link]

Gloji Light Bulb Bottle

Chocolate Pills Packaging

A scrumptious little pill in case of emergency, no need to take with water, as your mouth will be salivating to take this pick me up. [link]

Chocolate Pills Packaging

Dumbbell Sports Drink Packaging

Sports drink bottle design by Jin Le. Each bottle weights 0.5 kg. [link]

Dumbbell Sports Drink Packaging

Coconut Water Packaging

Brilliant packaging for Coconut Water from the Dominican Republic. [link]

Coconut Water Packaging

Newton Running Packaging

Molded paperboard packaging from Newton Running not only reduces waste by eliminating the need for interior tissue paper and other material commonly used in shoe packaging, it also provides a shell that is easy to stack and transport. [link]

Newton Running Packaging

Juice Skins Packaging

Creative fruit juice packaging by Japanese industrial designer Naoto Fukasawa. [link]

Juice Skins Packaging

Silhouette Optimized Grip Bottle

Innovative bottle design that offers ideal gripping geometry, unique shape and strong presence at the store. [link]

Silhouette Optimized Grip Bottle

Milk Packaging

Incredible milk packaging concept designed by Julien De Repentigny and Gabriel Lefebvre. [link]

Milk Packaging

Haroon

nice

Apr 5th, 2009

amanhem

nice and cool designs

Apr 5th, 2009

Joanne

Cool. I like the Milk box and the Soda Seal thing. :)

Apr 5th, 2009

FreelancerCrowd

Pretty cool designs

Apr 5th, 2009

happyseaurchin

astounding

deesigners are starting to apply themselves to big global problems
and i hope to see their solutions pack as much punch as what you guys highlight here…
in fact
have you guys got a post that does this already…?
inspirational global
or at least
huge-scale design?

Apr 5th, 2009

Torley

Most of these are more beautiful than practical — e.g., bananas come in many sizes and curves — but fun to look at indeed.

Apr 5th, 2009

Greg

The climbing shoe is brilliant. Very creative.

Apr 5th, 2009

Andre Dub

soda one is dope

Apr 5th, 2009

szuman

very nice