Oh paper lovers are going to love the book: The Packaging and Design Templates Sourcebook

I just got this book and I can't wait to make just about everything in it!

Hence all the little stickies coming out of the top! The book comes with the 140 templates on a disk!

I decided to try this little cute box first that has a round tab top closure.

I printed it out on a nice pink piece of card stock.

All that was left to do was cut out along the solid lines and score along the dotted lines and glue together!

I think this box will make a great gift box for special Easter eggs.

Here is the box pattern for you to download:

And if you need 139 more grab a copy of:

The Packaging and Design Templates Sourcebook

Luke Herriott

A practical and inspirational resource book of templates.

The Packaging and Design Templates Sourcebook presents a stunning showcase of 140 new, innovative and classic packaging and paper engineering ideas across a variety of areas. Accompanying each project is a detailed template, which shows the reader how to copy, fold and construct each project from material that is widely available.

This book provides a source of inspiration for graphic and packaging designers, both student and professional alike, as it explores the fundamentals of a package at its most basic level. Covering areas as diverse as food and drink, product packaging, promotional material, CDs and DVDs, books, retail and stationary, it is a completely comprehensive guide. The book also includes gatefold templates, some insert card packaging concepts, and a CD-Rom of templates and finished packages, allowing designers to create presentations for their clients!

Luke Herriott is a widely respected freelance graphic designer and book designer and runs the design company Studio Ink in Sussex. He is also the co-author of First Steps in Digital Design for RotoVision. He lives in Hastings, UK.

Comments

[Barbara]

Very nice! I would think that anyone could use it, I know that I would.

[Janel]

I love creating homemade, custom packages for my handmade gifts! Looks like a fabulous book.

[Barbara Hagerty]

I'm adding this to my list as another "must have"!

[geminisc]

this book looks great! definately putting it on my wishlist. meanwhile, just found out there is a book 2 (!!) http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/2888931249/ref=nosim/bookie0a-21

[BrendaLea]

What a perfect book this would be to have...so darned useful!
Thanks for the great review.

[f lynn rush]

with so many websites offering free patterns and instructions for using them, why purchase this book unless, of course, it goes steps beyond.

[Paula]

As an art journaler and a quality manager in a box plant, SO love this post. I must get that book! Thanks for the inspiration.
Much Love

[Alex]

I have a website on comcast. I would like to design my own page rather than use comcast's tacky (and rather limited) templates. I need a decent free or low cost web design software package that will allow me to upload it on comcast's server so that the web address stays the same or close enough.