Free Food Packaging Design Guide: 10 Mistakes to Avoid

Welcome to the packaging design help you wish came with starting a food brand. This is a free guide for food founders, CPG brands, and designers who want packaging that sells.

From the award-winning creative agency and expert packaging designers behind successful food brands at Whole Foods, Costco, Target, Erewhon, and more.

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• Considering your claims
• Does your pretty packaging have a plan?
• Compliance & FDA who?

Who is this packaging checklist for?
Food and beverage founders, CPG and marketing leads, business owners, students, and designers who want to go to market with ease and avoid common packaging design mistakes.

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On a shelf you get seconds, not minutes. Online, even less. When your packaging has to do the selling when you're not standing there to do it yourself there's a lot on the line. Most of the time it isn't one big disaster that loses the sale, it's a handful of small, fixable mistakes that add up to "I'll pass." 

Or what about your packaging file production? Are you worried about making costly mistakes when you send things off to your printer?

We've designed packaging for brands you'll find at stores like Whole Foods, Target, Erewhon, Costco and beyond. We've also watched the same mistakes trip up good products over and over, so we put our packaging design help into a free guide with a checklist of the ten mistakes we catch most.

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