Custom packaging and label design
Packaging design — new, or replacing one lost on the shelf — starts with where the product will sit and what sits beside it. Describe the product and packaging type in an order — a label, a box or a pouch — and designers will send responses. Or choose one whose portfolio shows printed packaging.
Packaging designers
How much packaging design costs
What affects the price
Number of items in the line
A single label and a series of several flavors or sizes are different amounts of work: the master layout is shared, but each item is adapted separately.
Structure and dieline
A sticker for a standard jar is simpler than a box, which needs a dieline with flaps and fold lines, or a layout fitted to a die template the print shop already has.
Printing and finishes
Foil stamping, spot varnish or Pantone colors need separate layers in the file and coordination with the print shop.
Mandatory text
Ingredients, nutrition facts, a barcode, storage conditions and several languages on a small label are painstaking layout work that takes a lot of time.
Illustrations and 3D renders
3D renders for a marketplace or a presentation, hand-drawn illustrations and product photos are often charged separately from the layout itself.
Prices come from specialists' profiles on Nexperity and update automatically. You agree the final price with the specialist directly.
How to find a packaging designer
Two ways — pick the one that suits you
Pick a specialist yourself
- 1Open specialists' profiles and their work
- 2Send a request that describes the task
- 3Once accepted — contact the specialist directly
Post an order
- 1Describe the task, payment and the timing you want
- 2Receive responses from specialists
- 3Pick the best specialist and agree directly
- Free for clients
- Orders can be posted anonymously
- Your contacts open only after acceptance
- No commission on the deal
How to choose a packaging designer
- 1
Printed packaging in the portfolio
Look for your type of packaging among their work — a bottle, a box, a pouch — and photos of printed samples, not just nice mockups.
- 2
Print shop requirements first
Ask the print shop for its artwork and die requirements and pass them to the designer: files for flexo and digital printing are prepared differently.
- 3
A label at actual size
Ask for the label to be printed at actual size or for a sample box to be assembled: small text and folds look different on screen.
- 4
Who proofreads the mandatory text
Usually you supply the text on ingredients, storage conditions and the producer, and the designer lays it out. Agree on who checks the final layout before printing.
- 5
Source files and rights
Check before you start whether you will get editable files and dielines, and the right to print the design in every future run.
What to put in the order
What the product is, who it is for and where it will be sold: a store shelf, a marketplace or your own website
Packaging type and size: a bottle label, a box, a pouch, a bag — or whether the type is still open
How many items are in the line: flavors, sizes, color variants
What you already have: a logo and brand identity, label copy, product photos, print shop requirements
How it will be printed, if you know: digital, offset or flexo, foil stamping, varnish
Packaging you like, payment and the date you need print-ready files by
Questions about Nexperity
How Nexperity works — separately for clients and for specialists
For clients
Nothing. Searching for specialists, sending requests, posting orders and receiving responses are free.
No. You agree the price and the payment method with the specialist and pay them directly. Nexperity does not take payments and is not a party to your deal.
A request goes to one specialist — from their profile. An order is posted for everyone: specialists send you responses, and you choose which one to accept.
How the specialist will do the task, a price — fixed, a range, hourly or “on request” — and, optionally, an estimated timeline.
30 days from publication: all that time it is visible in the feed and specialists can send responses. The exact end date and time are shown on the order in your account. From that moment the order is closed and a response can no longer be accepted. You can cancel it earlier, and if no specialist turned up, post a new one.
Yes: you can hide your name and photo in an order. The anonymity lasts until acceptance — the specialist whose response you accept sees your name and photo. The task description is public: anyone visiting the site can read it.
Only after acceptance — when you accept their response or they accept your request. And only the contacts you chose to show.
After acceptance you see the contacts the specialist chose to show, and they see the ones you chose. You can also message on Nexperity when the chat is on: on an order you decide that, on a direct request the specialist does.
Once the work is done, mark the order or the collaboration completed in your account — then you can say whether you recommend the specialist. A review can only be left for a collaboration that happened through Nexperity: one per specialist, which you can change or delete at any time.
For specialists
Nothing for now: this is the free period, and no subscription is needed yet. Nexperity takes no commission on deals — you settle with the client directly.
Sign up, fill in your specialist profile and add your services — each with a category, a description and a price. Once the profile is complete, it appears in search and on the category pages.
Two ways: clients send you requests from your profile, which you can accept or decline; and you see public orders in your categories in your account and can respond to them.
You describe how you will do the task and give a price and, optionally, a timeline. The client compares responses and accepts one.
Contacts set to “Public” are visible to everyone on your profile. A client sees contacts set to “After connection” once you accept their request or they accept your response. “Hidden” ones are not revealed in new connections: a contact already revealed to a client stays visible to them.
Each service has a fixed price, a range, an hourly rate or “on request”. Prices show on your profile and in search results, and you agree the final price with the client.
Through search and the category pages of your services. The order depends on your clients' reviews — how many of them recommend you — and in search also on how well your services match the query.
A photo, a description, your region and way of working — online or in person — your contacts and a portfolio: photos of your work, each with a short caption if you like.
A client leaves a review after completed work, and only for a collaboration through Nexperity: they say whether they recommend you and may add a few words. Each client counts once, however many times you work together.
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