Packaging: Design Successful Packaging for Specific Customer Groups (Demographics) - Hardcover

Keith Stephenson; Mark Hampshire

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 2940361711 ISBN 13: 9782940361717

Publisher: Rotovision, 2007

Synopsis

The first book to explore the vital, commercial relationship between design, marketing, and the target audience.DemoGraphics is the first series of design books to examine how successful designs target specific audiences. Where other design books explore the what? and why? of design, DemoGraphics: Packaging dissects the who? Through a huge selection of diverse examples, the authors examine how packaging is designed to appeal to specific groups based on gender, age, socio-economic group, disposable income, profession, and shopping habits. Case studies and interviews with designers and brand owners explain how and why specific choices have been made, why it works, and how it evolved from a prototype or concept to form a successful, user-centered design.Explores designs that work for target groups, together with case-study evidence, color wheels, materials and typeface choices.Unique mix of theory, showcase designs, research, statistics, and hard evidence.Loaded with hundreds of illustrations and featuring a hardcover format with tabbed dividers.**North American Rights Only**

About this title

About the Author

Mark Hampshire is a freelance brand consultant, and has previously worked in senior roles in Identica, In Real Life, Cato Consulting, and Carlton Television. Keith Stephenson is founding director of Absolute Zero Degrees design. His work ranges from contemporary wallpaper to book design, and he has designed and illustrated Mass-Market Classics: The Home and Bright Ideas: Professional Lighting Secrets for Your Home. They both live in London, UK.Mark Hampshire (London, UK), along with Keith Stephenson (London, UK), directs Absolute Zero Degrees, a multidisciplinary agency designing corporate identities, packaging, books, wallpaper, and interiors accessories. They are the co-authors of the Communicating with Pattern series and DemoGraphics: Packaging and Choosing and Using Paper for Great Graphic Design.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rotovision
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 2940361711
• ISBN 13: 9782940361717
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 208