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Sensory Branding

Brands enhance sensory experiences through abstract packaging materials

Implications - Heightening consumer experiences, brands are adding unique textures to their packaging for sensory enticement. Using diverse fabrics and cut-out shapes to add dimension to store-bought goods, these packaging designs help add intrigue to ordinary products.
Trend Themes
1. Sensory Branding - Brands are adding unique textures to their packaging for sensory enticement, creating opportunities for designers to innovate on the tactile aspect of packaging design
2. Abstract Packaging Design - Designers are using diverse fabrics and cut-out shapes to add dimension to store-bought goods, creating opportunities for brands to differentiate themselves through packaging design
3. Texture-based Branding - Texture-focused branding is becoming increasing popular, as designers use patterns and shapes to create memorable and easily distinguishable packaging
Industry Implications
1. Packaging Design - The rise in abstract and texture-based packaging design presents an opportunity for designers and businesses to innovate and differentiate themselves in a crowded market
2. Food and Beverage - Texture-based and sensory branding is particularly relevant to the food and beverage industry where brands are looking to entice customers with unique, memorable packaging and product experiences
3. Beauty and Skincare - Texture-based branding and sensory packaging is increasingly relevant to the beauty and skincare industry, as brands look to create luxurious product experiences through packaging and design innovation
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Featured Examples

Crumpled Paper Bag Packaging
Crumpled Paper Bag Packaging
The UR Wine Bottle Comes in a Wrinkled Brown Paper Bag
The new UR wine packaging design presents this bottle to consumers in a crumpled brown paper bag. This seems almost humorous when one considers that in old films booze was often concealed in a brown... MORE
Quilted Tea Packaging
Quilted Tea Packaging
ICA Looks to Handicrafts for Tea Packaging Ideas
Tea is one of those beverages that’s comforting and warm like a blanket, and this tea packaging idea takes this concept quite literally. The packaging designed for ICA by the Silver design... MORE
Undressed Oil Packaging
Undressed Oil Packaging
Creteleon Olive Oil Bottle Comes with a Sheath Perfect for Gifting
As subtly suggested by the name of the olive oil, Creteleon is a premium olive oil that is produced on the Greek island of Crete. When it comes to olive oil packaging, there’s a bit of a divide:... MORE
Rope-Wrapped Rums
Rope-Wrapped Rums
RM Rum is Encased in Beautiful Bottles that Highlight Multiple Influences
RM Rum is a scrumptious variety that, surprisingly, is a blended option that contains rums from all corners of the Caribbean before being aged in northern Italy in wooden casks of acacia, Swiss oak,... MORE
play_circle_filledTriangulated Terrycloth Branding
Triangulated Terrycloth Branding
Vertty Towel Packaging Catches Eyes with Sharp and Colored Shapes
Looking at Vertty Towel packaging, you may be reminded that these sorts of items don’t typically come in boxes. What designer Frederico Cardoso has decided to do is to rebrand these beach... MORE
Ornamental Skincare Boxes
Ornamental Skincare Boxes
Gaba Guzik's Hand Cream Packaging Concept Adopts an Unusual Shape
The inspiration for this unusual hand cream packaging by Gaba Guzik comes from a spiderweb, although it’s been abstracted into something much more beautiful. The concept packaging for WOI High... MORE
Texture-Focused Jam Branding
Texture-Focused Jam Branding
The Regina Royale Jam Labels are Modern and Easily Distinguished
The Regina Royale jam branding is somewhat simple and minimalistic, yet has a number of different design elements that make it a joy to distinguish between. Rather than featuring the picture of the... MORE
Scented Skincare Boxes
Scented Skincare Boxes
Mentholatum’s Vapor Rub Features a Lavender Scratch-and-Sniff Panel
Most products that make note of lavender as a main ingredient are branded in purple to trigger recall of that familiar scent—but Mentholatum’s vapor rub saves consumers from having to use their... MORE
Layered Liquor Labels
Layered Liquor Labels
The New Labels on the Craigellachie Whiskey Bottle Layer Images & Text
New York-based design company Stranger & Stranger designed the layered labels that are featured on the Craigellachie scotch-whiskey bottles. These intricate labels create an ancient-looking... MORE

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