Artificial Intelligence: How AI is Enhancing Packaging Design

Discover how AI is transforming packaging design by allowing teams to generate mockups, optimize materials and processes, and more. Our blog series is designed to help you brainstorm how to bake Gen AI tools like Canva, Fotor AI, Midjourney, Pacdora, and more into your packaging design workflow.

AI-Related Articles and Tutorials

Mitch Webster
Andrew Hurley, PhD

Top AI Tools for Packaging Design

AI tools and software are being introduced into an array of industries, including the $1.1 trillion USD packaging industry. Tools including Canva, Fotor Ai, MidJourney and more enable designers, marketers, and entrepreneurs to create effective, data-driven packaging ideas and designs. AI is not a tool that should be used in isolation and we will cover a number of tools and platforms to aid professionals in the packaging industry.
2024/04/04
Mitch Webster
Alli Keigley

How to Use AI for Packaging Photoshoots

In this blog, we are going to utilize the packaging design mockups generated by Packify.ai’s AI Design tool, and then upload them to the AI Photoshoot tool to test its ability to generate realistic and eye-catching photoshoots. 
2024/07/30
Mitch Webster
Alli Keigley

How Coca-Cola and Mattel are Using AI for Packaging Design

We’ve seen AI trickling into a variety of industries over the last decade; AI tools and software have infiltrated the vast packaging industry too, and we published a blog recently covering the AI tools that can help aid in packaging design. Now, we want to look at some illustrative examples of how top brands like Coca-Cola and Mattel are using generative AI to assist in their packaging design workflow.
2024/07/17
Mitch Webster
Alli Keigley

Top FREE AI Tools for Packaging Design

In this blog we will explore the top free AI platforms/tools to help with packaging design inspiration and workflow. We explore Fotor AI, Canva Magic Studio, Adobe Express, and Pixlr—covering how the use the platforms, and testing them with a uniform packaging related prompt—sustainable cereal packaging.
2024/07/18
Mitch Webster
Alli Keigley

Using AI to Inspire Arts & Crafts from Cardboard Boxes

For the sake of this blog, we will explore how to transform corrugated (cardboard) boxes into fun arts and crafts with the help of AI. This is part one of a multi-part series in which we will explore how to use AI to generate arts and crafts ideas with packaging waste.
2024/07/29
Mitch Webster
Alli Keigley

How to Use AI for Packaging Color Inspiration

In this blog we explore how to use AI tools—including Adobe Express Text to image, Canva Magic Studio text to image, Fotor AI, and ChatGPT
2024/06/17

Dive Further into AI for Packaging Design with our Online Courses

Elevate your skills and stay ahead in the packaging industry by learning about AI-adjacent topics. Enroll in our comprehensive online courses designed to boost your expertise, whether you're just starting out or looking to advance your career.
Augmented Reality for Packaging
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FR-04
A free online course designed to shed light on innovating packaging designs utilizing augmented reality.
$0
What You'll Learn
Augmented reality offers enormous untapped potential for brands to revolutionize their packaging and the way they connect and engage with consumers today. In this course, you’ll be exposed to more than 20 AR examples on the shelf right now. You’ll also be introduced to our Packaging AR Development storyboard where we’ll walk you through how to develop your own packaging AR experience. We’ll even explore ways AR can be leveraged to attract and retain shopper attention, furthering relationships among brands and consumers.
Course Objectives
Learn how utilizing augmented reality allows for more interaction and engagement with shoppers
Apply course learnings to real products on the shelf in today’s market
Create a unique augmented reality experience through The Packaging School’s AR Development storyboard
Deepen the relationship between a brand, product, and consumer
$0
Leveraging Human Factors in Packaging Design
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79
ELEC-E03
This course applies ergonomic principles to modern packaging, equipping you with tools and insights for designs appealing to all consumers, regardless of gender, race, or culture.
$399
What You'll Learn
Ergonomics (or human factors) is the scientific discipline concerned with the understanding of interactions among humans and other elements of a system, and the profession that applies theory, principles, data and methods to design in order to optimize human well-being and overall system performance. This course applies these concepts to modern packaging systems to show you how to win over any consumer, regardless of gender, race, or culture.
Course Objectives
$399
Packaging Design Workflow
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CPS-C12
Master design concepts: typography, color, imagery, materials. Learn collaboration, iterative development, Dr. Andrew Hurley's RFP guides, design brief template for successful package designs.
$399
What You'll Learn
In this course, we are going to review design terminology, highlight important design theories, such as typography, color, imagery and materials. We are going to discuss how to best approach a project with your team and leverage iterative development to build winning designs. The first step is making sure you have a solid foundation and workflow when starting a project. You will receive Dr. Andrew Hurley’s RFP guides and the design brief template and strategies he’s used to launch over 100 package designs to market.
Course Objectives
Gain a solid foundation and workflow to begin projects to ensure organization and develop a successful product
Optimize your design efforts for efficiency
Learn design terminology, key design theories, and materials
Review various facets of the packaging development process
Construct a successful design survey and managing assets to develop prototypes
Define methodology and understand design criteria
$399
Pack Design Workshop
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PKD-01
Students completing the workshop will design and improve a paperboard carton or corrugated container and learn how to price and order production samples of their packaging.
$399
What You'll Learn
Master the fundamentals of packaging design in this immersive, online workshop. Work through the design process from ideation to building your own digital prototypes. Completing this workshop will give you a solid foundation of the box design process as well as some hands-on software training that will allow you to directly apply your newfound knowledge to the packaging challenges you or your company are facing today.
$399

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Orange Juice bottle mock up using Fotor AI

Orange juice bottle mock up using Packify.AI Packaging Photoshoot tool by Pacdora

Coffee packaging mock ups using Fotor AI

Orange juice packaging mock up using Midjourney

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