These packaging designs are a great source of inspiration. This is a showcase of the most creative and cutting-edge designs from the world of packaging. Package design is a very important design element due to its direct relationship with the environment and therefore climate. A recent calculation estimated that if Coca Cola didn’t use paint on their cans in just one year they would save around 24 billion cans worth of paint.

This is an excellent example of how innovative and forward thinking package design can literally help save our planet, which is always a very good thing. Other ideas include doubling the usage of a product, for example the dumbbell packaging that is originally a drinks bottle.

Although most of these incorporate recyclable materials and are environmentally conscious designs some of them are purely aesthetically pleasing and great for design inspiration. Please retweet this and remember to subscribe via RSS

Prototype Packaging

Prototype Packaging: This is a product named the Wine Can and took the 2006 Swedish packaging design award. This product, designed by Jens Andersson and Jonas Forsman, has a beautiful matte finish and a lot of appeal. Image Source

Resealable Soda Can

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Resealable Soda Can: This really interesting packaging concept that allows for a soda can to be resealed called Soda-Seal. Image Source.

Reebok Exta Grip

Reebok Exta Grip: Packaging : Packaging idea for Reebok climbing shoes. Image Source.

The 360 Paper Bottle

The 360 Paper Bottle is the first of its kind in the world, and a true environmentally-friendly solution to the problem of plastic water bottles: Image Source.

Meat Shorts

Weird packaging for Weird Clothing :

Internet-shop Weird Clothing offers bermuda shorts with meat print. The appropriate package not forgotten with “Human meat” label. Image Source.

An­ti-Theft Lunch Bags

An­ti-Theft Lunch Bags are zip­per bags that have green splotch­es print­ed on both sides, mak­ing your fresh­ly pre­pared lunch look spoiled. Don’t let a sticky-fin­gered cowork­er or school­yard bully get away with lunch theft again.Image source.

Fruit Juice Packages

Japanese industrial designer Naoto Fukasawa has created a series of creative fruit juice packages that have the look and feel of the fruit they contain.Image Source

Dumbbell / Cleaner

Tommaso Ceschi designed this lovely innovative packaging which can act as a water bottle, a cleaning detergent container and a dumbbell!

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CHAIR/CHAIR

CHAIR/CHAIR
An inspiration from the American contemporary artist Joseph Kosuth, One and Three Chair. Instead of giving new definition, I redefined the concept of a chair by using alphabet. One is able to construct a chair by assembling the redesigned alphabets.Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)

Ben Rama

Ben Rama is a Graphic Designer, CG artist & Cinematographer from London. He is the founder & creative director at Digital Art Empire Find Ben on Twitter