Crafter's Guide to Packaging Handmade Products: Tips and creative inspiration for crafters from crafters - Softcover

Sutanto, Viola E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 178221013X ISBN 13: 9781782210139

Publisher: Search Press, 2014

Synopsis

From making boxes to die-cutting your logo, Crafter's Guide to Packaging Handmade Products is aimed at crafters, providing a comprehensive guide to creative packaging ideas for handmade products helping designer-makers turn a passion into a lucrative business. Whether selling on sites such as Etsy or through craft fairs, trade shows, and local stores, this book shows you how to give your handmade jewellery, soft craft, or homeware products that professional edge to make the crucial difference between a one-time sale and customers who come back for more.
Existing packaging books are aimed at graphic designers or specialist packaging designers, and don’t provide enough information for the 15 million designer-makers that have changed the face of online selling over the last five years. Crafter's Guide to Packaging Handmade Products is aimed solely at these crafters and creators making sense of specialist terms, standard envelope sizes, folding terminology, and measurements. Advice ranges from the simple―how to customise basic boxes and labels with printing, creative washi tape, or other designs and shapes; to the more complex―making your own packaging and recycling old material to make new packaging. Also included are printable templates and a resources section at the back of the book with handy sizing charts, standard envelope sizes across the world, ratios for scaling the accompanying templates, and measurement conversion charts, making this a truly indispensable resource for the creative and innovative crafter and seller.

About this title

About the Author

Viola E. Sutanto is an award-winning graphic and product designer based in San Francisco. Her love for the art of gift presentation, coupled with a vision for sustainable design, has led her to design a line of reusable fabric 'Give Wraps' inspired by the concept of recycling and upcycling. Viola has had her work and designs featured on the Today Show and in publications such as Real Simple, HOW and Print. In addition to featuring on popular craft and design blogs such as Design*Sponge and Apartment Therapy, she also records her inspiration and features fabric wrapping tutorials on her own blog, chewingthecud.com.

Edition details

• Publisher: Search Press
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 178221013X
• ISBN 13: 9781782210139
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176