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title: "Packaging"
description: "Labels, boxes, and bags that read from across a shop and still feel considered at home."
url: "https://margo-astro.pages.dev/services/packaging/"
---

# Packaging

> Labels, boxes, and bags that read from across a shop and still feel considered at home.

- **From**: €6,200 per range
- **Timeline**: 5–7 weeks

## What you walk away with.

- Label and surface system
- Dielines and structure notes
- Full-size mock-ups
- Print-ready artwork
- Proof checks and printer hand-off

## Craft involved

- Sketching
- Typography
- 3D
- Print production

## How the work runs.

1. **Brief and structure** (Week 1)
   We look at the range, the shelf, and the shipping, and decide what changes and what stays.
2. **Surface design** (Weeks 2–4)
   Label and surface layouts for the whole range, mocked up at real size.
3. **Proofing** (Weeks 5–6)
   Colour proofs on the real stock, checked against an agreed standard.
4. **Production** (Week 7)
   Print-ready artwork, the printer hand-off, and a check of the first run.

## Asked about this service.

### Do you handle printing?

I prepare the files, check every proof, and talk to your printer. You pay the printer directly, with no markup.

### Can you keep my current box or bottle?

Yes. Most ranges keep their structure and change what is printed on it. A new structure adds about two weeks.

### How do you make sure the colours are right?

Every colour is proofed on the real material before the run. On screen, a colour is only a guess.

## Packaging that survives the shelf and the post

Packaging is the one part of a brand people hold in their hands. It has to read from two metres away on a shelf, survive a courier, and still feel considered when it is opened at a kitchen table.

I design the surface, the label system, and, when the product needs it, the structure. For a range, the aim is one system that stretches. A ceramics studio now runs forty glazes through a single label layout, and a gift shop ships every bag flat in one box size.

## From flat file to finished box

Each design is mocked up at full size on the real stock before you approve it. I prepare print-ready artwork, check the printer's proofs against the agreed colours, and stay on call until the first run ships. You pay the printer directly, so no markup hides in the quote.

## Working with what you have

Most projects keep the existing box, jar, or bottle and change what is printed on it. That keeps tooling costs down and gets the new range onto the shelf sooner. When a new structure is worth it, I say so early, with the cost beside it.