Posts Tagged ‘Packaging’

Packaging Design – SuperSoil Sands & Pebbles

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

When you are in the market for pebbles to use in garden landscaping, it is vital that you are able to see the product itself, and not just the packaging. In addition to opting for clear bags for the new SuperSoil range of Pebbles and Sands, we at Toast took the approach of focusing on the natural purity of the contents within the bags, selecting from an organic palette of Pantones for the labels. Below, the results.

Packaging - SuperSoil Sand & Pebbls Bags

Packaging - SuperSoil Sand & Pebbls Bags

Packaging Design – SuperSoil Mulches, Mixes & Manures

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

Packaging these kind of products presents two distinct and different challenges.

1) At the end of the day, poo is still poo and dirt is still dirt. To suggest otherwise is futile and dishonest.
2) The matter of recognition and distinction. These bags are often laid in piles, outdoors, dozens high, amid a slew of similar products, not displayed faceĀ first, but whichever way was most convenient to stack them. Ordinarily, they are also partially obscured by other products.

We addressed the challenge of providing optimum visibility and identification through strong application of colouring – most competing bags (and the previous designs for the SuperSoil Mulches, Mixes & Manures), mainly feature white coloured bags, with small amounts of washed out colour on parts of some of their faces.

The new designs are drowned in colour so that they can be spotted from a mile away and have recently been rolled out in landscaping and gardening centres around Sydney and Melbourne.

See below for before (+ environment) and after images.

SuperSoil Packaging Design - Rebrand

SuperSoil Packaging Design - Rebrand

SuperSoil - Old Design + Environment

SuperSoil - Old Design + Environment

- Pyro