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The Packaging Design Agency Putting Products Centre Stage.

The shelf is the most competitive stage your brand will ever stand on. We design packaging that wins the fleeting fight for attention. Original artwork, obsessive print craft and a story your customer can hold in their hands.
  • Story-driven packaging with artwork created for your product alone
  • Boxes and labels artworked and print-tested for flawless fit and finish
  • Award-winning packaging across food, drink and premium retail
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Design You Can Hold in Your Hands.

A packaging design agency lives or dies on the shelf. So does your product. You get a glance, maybe two if you’re lucky, between a hundred competing labels and a customer’s hand reaching past you. Packaging is the only marketing your buyer ever picks up, turns over and takes home.
So we treat every pack as a piece of theatre. The label, the box, the bottle and the unboxing all play a part in one story. That story must communicate your product and brand in perfect harmony. All designed so the product feels like more than a purchase. It feels like finding something special.
And unlike a packaging design company that stops at a pretty render, we follow the work into the physical world. Expect artworking, proofing and print-testing until what’s in your customer’s hands matches what was in your head.

Why Partner With Us For Packaging Design.

Good packaging is common. We’d go as far as to say that it is easy. But the best packaging? Not so much. Packaging that sells the story and thrives on the print run is much more than your usual ‘good’ packaging. Here’s our difference.
  • Story on the shelf - Every pack carries a narrative, so customers connect with your product before they’ve read a word of copy.
  • Print-obsessed - Stocks, foils, finishes, dielines. We artwork and test the physical detail most studios leave to the printer.
  • Artwork of your own - Original illustration created for your product, never assets recycled from a library.
  • Designed as a range - We build packaging systems, not one-offs, so your line can grow without the shelf presence falling apart.
Got a product that deserves the spotlight? Tell us about it, and we'll show you what it could look like on the shelf.
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What Our Packaging Work Covers.

Our product packaging design work spans four core areas. If your product doesn’t fit a neat category, even better. Drop us a line as we’d love to find out more about what your project specifically entails. We love a challenge.

Drinks Packaging Design

Bottles, cans and labels for spirits, wine and beyond. The most theatrical shelf there is, and one of our favourites.

Food Packaging Design

Packaging that makes food brands look as good as they taste. From retail products to restaurant ranges, we know what works.

Product Packaging Design

Boxes, sleeves and cartons for products of every kind, designed to be kept rather than thrown away.

Limited Editions & Gifting

Special releases, gift packs and collector’s editions. Packaging designed to feel like an occasion. Because it is.

From The Brief To The Shelf

We start with your product, your market and the shelf you’re fighting for.
Knowing exactly what surrounds you is how we make sure nothing about your pack blends in.

Our Packaging Projects

Zouk Tea Bar Manchester

Manchester’s Icon of Indian and Pakistani cuisine.

Illustration, animation, web design and build, SEO, packaging design, photography, video and experiential marketing.
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Moosh Vodka

Moosh Bet on Us: How We Designed a Winning Vodka Brand

Creative Direction, Branding, Illustration, Packaging.
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Incognito Spirit Company

Launching drinks under the brand of a theatrical cocktail bar experience.

Creative direction, illustration, and packaging design.
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Fortunate Son

Legendary winemaker in California’s Napa Valley.

Illustration, web design and development – brought to life with animation and storytelling.
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Award-Winning Packaging Design - Incognito Spirit Company

Incognito is a theatrical cocktail bar experience. Imagine a Victorian speakeasy meets Alice in Wonderland. Wild yet refined. When the brand launched its own range of locally distilled spirits, the packaging had to bottle that world.
We designed packaging and labels for six spirits, from spiced rum to pink gin, giving each drink its own carefully crafted persona, all presented by a roaring evolution of the brand’s feline mascot, Chadwick Smithfield. Every box and label was painstakingly artworked and tested for print quality, fit and finish, then released as a limited run of exclusive special editions, with micro animations bringing each product to life on screen.
The launch landed. Incognito Spirits won the Global Vodka Masters Gold award in 2023, and the packaging now carries the brand across labels, advertising and digital.
What we delivered:
  • Packaging and label design for a six-spirit range
  • An illustrated persona for every drink, fronted by the brand’s mascot
  • Artworked, print-tested boxes and labels in a limited special-edition run
  • A Global Vodka Masters Gold award-winning launch
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Explore More of Our Creative Work.

Branding

Build a whole identity around your brand. Captivate, engage and grow.
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Illustration

Original, hand-drawn artwork that gives your brand a character of its own.
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Logo Design

The single mark your whole identity hangs from.
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Creative

See the full breadth of our creative work.
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Start Your Packaging Project.

Tell us about your product and the shelf it’s fighting for. We’ll show you packaging that makes customers reach for it. Designed, artworked and print-tested by one team, in-house, and always senior-led.

Goals – target audience – competitors – timelines – inspiration

Packaging Design FAQs.

What does a packaging design agency do?

We design how your product looks, feels and tells its story in physical form. The structure, artwork, labels and finish are all crafted and then prepared for production. You get packaging built to sell.

How much does packaging design cost in the UK?

It depends on the format and the size of the range. A single label is a completely different project from a twenty-product family. Share what you’re planning, and we’ll give you a clear, honest price.

Do you handle print and production?

We prepare full print-ready artwork, specify materials and finishes, and support you through production with your printer. The proofing stage exists so there are no surprises when the boxes arrive.

Do you specialise in food and drink packaging?

It’s where much of our best-known work lives - spirits, wine, restaurant products and retail food - but the same thinking applies to any product that has to win a shelf.

Can you design a full product range?

Yes, and we’d recommend it. We design packaging as a system, so every product in your range is family while still standing on its own.

Do you design labels as well as full packaging?

Yes. Labels, sleeves, boxes, tins and everything in between. Some projects are a single label done brilliantly, others are the whole physical brand.

Will the artwork be original?

Always. Illustration and artwork are created specifically for your product. Nothing is licensed from a stock library or reused from another client. Your packaging deserves to be distinctly yours, and we get that.

Who owns the packaging designs?

You do. Final artwork and design files are yours, with ownership confirmed in writing as part of the project.

See the Work. Spot the Difference.

All in-house, all the time.

Every project is managed, planned and carefully crafted by an in-house team of creatives and developers, giving you direct contact with the people at the helm. We collaborate with clients, to bring visions to life.

The Kirkmichael Arms

In the heart of Scotland - The playground of Robert The Bruce. A land of Lions, Legacy and Heritage. Of poets and Kings.

Illustration, web design and development, photography, SEO campaign. Storytelling and brand narrative.
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Moor Hall

The UK's newest Three Michelin Star restaurant, Chef Patron Mark Birchall's imagination made real: a vision of what food, providence and respect for nature should be, built from extraordinary effort, deep knowledge, and a refusal to accept the ordinary.

Web design and development. Illustration and animation. SEO campaign. Storytelling and brand narrative.
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Marwell Zoo

Hero illustration · Animation · Social campaign assets
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Chene Bleu

"From little acorns, mighty oaks grow" - The Chêne Bleu story, told their way

Web design and development. Animated brand film. Storytelling and brand narrative.
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BeU Swindon

BeU SWINDON — BUILDING TRUST AND CONNECTION AROUND YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH
Brand messaging and strategy, filmed hero video, photography, animated illustrations. Bespoke site design and development, SEO campaign, social media management
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Incognito Spirit Company

Launching drinks under the brand of a theatrical cocktail bar experience.

Creative direction, illustration, and packaging design.
View Project

Fortunate Son

Legendary winemaker in California’s Napa Valley.

Illustration, web design and development – brought to life with animation and storytelling.
View Project

Screencraft

Screencraft Display is a name well known to those in the know. Based in Hull, they are makers in the truest sense —
blending high-end industrial production with design thinking, to create point-of-sale experiences that elevate the everyday.
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Summer Dreams Wines

An exclusive winery on California's Sonoma Coast.

Video, web design and ecommerce build, SEO, UI and UX.
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The Fat Duck

Heston Blumenthal’s iconic triple Michelin Star restaurant.

Additional illustration, web design and development. Anthology menu design and storytelling.
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Incognito Bars

Indulging the imagination of a beautifully unique bar experience.

All illustrations and menu designs, packaging design, animations, web design and build.
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Moosh Vodka

Moosh Bet on Us: How We Designed a Winning Vodka Brand

Creative Direction, Branding, Illustration, Packaging.
View Project

Zouk Tea Bar Manchester

Manchester’s Icon of Indian and Pakistani cuisine.

Illustration, animation, web design and build, SEO, packaging design, photography, video and experiential marketing.
View Project

Lokma Westfield

Traditional Turkish food with modern appeal.

Illustration, web design and build, copywriting, photography and video.
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