Awesome Packaging

If you’ve ever received a giant box from Amazon only to find a tiny item rattling around inside, you’ll appreciate this video. What you’re about to see is a Sparck Technologies automated packaging machine that first takes a precision scan of an object, then cuts and folds a custom box that fits perfectly, reducing waste.

We were scratching our heads for a minute after watching this factory worker work their magic bagging up bicycles. The trick involves first filling the bag with air, then flipping it around just right for an instant wrap around the bike.

Harukiru loves to make sculptures out of packaging from various food and beverage products. Watch as the artist takes a cardboard sake container and slices it up to create an intricate samurai figure, complete with an intimidating mask and a paper katana.

Artist Peter Dahmen shows off a series of intricate paper-cut sculptures, greeting cards, and packaging designs that he’s created over the years. Some of them are one-off personal projects, while others are available as DIY tutorials on his website. Check out more of his sculptures here.

Don’t you hate it when you go to get some ice cream from the freezer, and it turns out one of your housemates has already gobbled it all down? Häagen-Dazs Australia sympathizes, so they came up with this fake bag of frozen peas for you to hide your dessert treats inside of.

As we move more and more towards digital downloads and streaming, there’s less need for packaging. Ahoy looks back at the days when computer games mostly came in oversize packages with bold box art, and started to standardize on a form factor back in the early 1990s. Despite the dry subject matter, Ahoy makes it interesting.

Since his kids seemed to only want cash for gifts this year, Donnachaidha O’Chionnaigh of TwoClawsMedia decided to package up his holiday presents like action figures anyhow, rather than just handing over a fifty. He was also kind enough to share the designs in case you want to print up some for yourself.

Boston Pizza is changing the pizza delivery game with its invention. It came up with a pizza box that lays flat and has two legs that pop out and lock in place, so you can head straight to bed with your pizza. They recently offered a limited run, but hopefully they will make more.

Do you send packages for your own business? Make your packages stand out from the crowd with Sticker Mule’s latest addition – custom-printed packaging tape. Simply upload your artwork, and it’ll ship in just 4 days. Grab a single 300′ x 3″ roll for just $9 through 4/17/17.

While it’s not quite as awesome as this similarly designed lamp, this concept design for milk bottles from Kyrgyzstan agency Imedia seems like something that could go on store shelves pretty quickly. We suggest that they add glow-in-the-dark food coloring for nighttime drinking.

You can buy the digital tracks from Junk Science’s dope hip-hop album, but you really want the physical edition – two slices of CD “bread” which sandwich together “ingredients” printed with lyrics, and packed in a resealable freezer bag.

We love the eclectic collection of fonts and simple yet playful style that Pearlfisher has used to completely revamp the packaging for Jamie Oliver’s in store food and houseware lines.

Spencer Bigum’s concept packaging for Duracell batteries is brilliant in its simplicity. The geeky covers should be a hit with consumers looking to power their game controllers and remote controls.

These beer bottles are the bomb, literally. Too bad Marco Manansala’s BMG-10 Black Market Goods beer bottles are still only a concept. A brewery needs to pick up on this idea and license it – now.

David Riesenberg’s concept design for packaging promotional music is just too cool. It’s a single disc that combines a vinyl record, a CD, a USB flash drive and an iTunes store download code.

We never thought there might be a way to improve upon the cardboard pizza box, but the guys at e.c.o. have developed the pizza box of the future. We’re not sure it’s really green, but it is cool.

We’re digging the clever packaging 22Squared designed for Atlanta’s Red Brick Beer, which includes some laugh-out-loud humor and tongue-in-cheek Southern storytelling. (Thanks, Josh!)

Super cool package design on these Eco and Techno Polo Shirts for Lacoste from Tom Dixon, with eco-friendly embossing for the former, and a speaking label for the latter.

Australian designer Tom Hussey has created Kegless, a bag-in-box packaging concept for carbonated beverages that provides a sustainable alternative to conventional single serve packages.

The Clever Little Bag, designed by Yves Béhar, may soon replace the shoebox. The bag was created to reduce PUMA’s water, energy and diesel consumption by more than 60% per year.