Subversive repainted packaging by Ben Frost

Low Lai Chow Contributor

By Low Lai Chow in New Design on Friday 1 March 2013

Aussie artist Ben Frost has struck again, and this time he’s hand painting colorful pop art over product packaging. We especially dig the ones on McDonald’s characteristic red paper packaging for its fries and random packaging for pharmaceutical products.

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Packaging makes paintbrushes look like mustaches

Rebekah Rhoden Contributor

By Rebekah Rhoden in New Design on Thursday 14 February 2013

If you have to design packaging for paintbrushes, you might as well go all out. That’s exactly what Simon Laliberté did when he designed packaging for Poilu. Besides the fact that the design is hilarious, the packaging also functions as a support for the brushes.

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One Eighty: innovative packaging design out of Finland

Cat Madeira Reader Find

By Cat Madeira in New Design on Wednesday 10 October 2012

I dig this new, innovative and sustainable design for cosmetics packaging by Juho Johannes Kruskopf, Arttu Kuisma and Nikolo Kerimov, all students at Lahti Institute of Design in Finland. It’s beautiful packaging with a high-end look that could have many purposes.

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Auris Apothecary’s unique album packaging

Contributions Reader Find

By Merzipan in New Design on Wednesday 23 February 2011

Your CD might come in a case with an interactive wheel you can spin to change the original line art. Your cassette might be housed in a 45 record melted and molded around it.

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