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Premium Packaging: Minimalistic Design

Premium Packaging: Minimalistic Design

Minimalism is the most subtle packaging design cue that communicates a brand's quality. Through different periods of history it has been associated with classy design and respected reputation. The "less is more" concept, however, is complex for designers in the sense that it really comes down to the specific product and how it relates to a premium experience.

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Premium Packaging: High Quality of Packaging Materials

Premium Packaging: High Quality of Packaging Materials

Commitment to quality should be a top concern for premium brands in order to connect with consumers willing to pay higher prices. Specific packaging materials can trigger cues to consumers on whether the product is conventional or premium. Here's a deeper look at why using high quality materials is crucial for premium packaging.

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Premium Packaging - Overview

Premium Packaging - Overview

Communicating a premium perception should be the goal of designers of luxury brands and products. This perception needs to be based on these four factors determined by researchers:

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Fancy Tins: How Colors Affect Emotions and Consequently Purchase Decisions

Fancy Tins: How Colors Affect Emotions and Consequently Purchase Decisions

One of the most striking qualities of fancy tins is how color is reflected by the shiny effects of tinplate and aluminum. Not only can colors on fancy tins display magnificent designs, they can also trigger wonderful memories of good times. Here are ways that color plays a significant role in attracting consumers to packaging, leading to purchasing decisions.

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Fancy Tins & Private Label Products: How Packaging Design Influences Your Product's Success

Fancy Tins & Private Label Products: How Packaging Design Influences Your Product's Success

How much does packaging design influence the success of private label tins? The answer may apply to all forms of packaging of any shape or color. While consumers might have an idea from experience what's inside the package, the closest they can usually get to a product before a purchase is holding it. Research shows packaging can influence people's perceptions of taste, which contributes to the success of a food product packaged in fancy tins.  This article describes how private labels can benefit from this.

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Addressing Millenials with Nostalgia Marketing: Why Fancy Tins Work

Addressing Millenials with Nostalgia Marketing: Why Fancy Tins Work

At some point every business aiming for a wide market has to look past the myths that media has perpetuated about millennials. It's the age group born from 1980 to 1996, often treated by marketers as "hipsters" who only care about "what's happening now." But like past generations, a certain percentage of millennials have a taste for nostalgia, which is why they embrace Fancy Tins.

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Fancy Tins: the 10 Factors to Success

Fancy Tins: the 10 Factors to Success

The path toward designing successful fancy tins involves visualizing them as luxury items that serve as extensions of the consumer's psyche. People who appreciate quality and status symbols will support luxury brands if the right messages are embedded in the packaging. Here are ten essential factors that must be integrated in the packaging. 

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Fancy Tins: How the Sense of Touch Affects Purchase Decisions

Fancy Tins: How the Sense of Touch Affects Purchase Decisions

As much as people love food, they may not want it if it's not touching something they deem acceptable. That's one of the main reasons why the choice of packaging materials is so important. Whatever the food touches, whether it's metal, plastic, paper or some other material, the package must create the perception of a strong and clean barrier from the environment. A bakery must particularly be conscious of how it serves sweets to customers who are often ready to eat a snack right away.

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Fancy Tins: Addressing Specific Communities Online Through Targeted Fancy Packaging

Fancy Tins: Addressing Specific Communities Online Through Targeted Fancy Packaging

Awareness of fancy tins can be built through an online community (OC) with the understanding that multiple kinds of value must shift over time to reflect different audiences and evolving technology. The combination of changes in social themes, marketing strategies, new platforms and investors shape how fancy tins may be effectively presented to the public. Many times big events such as theWorld Cup can be the basis of promoting fancy packaging, in conjunction with digital marketing. 

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