Description
Book SynopsisThe essential packaging design resource, now with more patterns than ever!
For more than two decades, The Packaging Designer''s Book of Patterns has served as an indispensable source of ideas and practical solutions for a wide range of packaging design challenges.
This Fourth Edition offers more than 600 patterns and structural designsmore than any other bookall drawn to scale and ready to be traced, scanned, or photocopied. Online access to the patterns in digital format allows readers to immediately use any pattern in the most common software programs, including Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Every pattern has been test-constructed to verify dimensional accuracy. The patterns can be scaled to suit particular specificationsmany are easily converted to alternate usesand most details are easily customizable. Features of this Fourth Edition include:
- More than 55 new patterns added to this editionover 600 patterns in all
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Table of Contents
Preface to the Fourth Edition iv
Foreword v
1. Introduction 1
2. The Folding Carton 19
Trays 25
Tubes 99
Sleeves, Wraps, and Folders 291
3. The Set-Up or Rigid Paper Box 421
4. Corrugated Containers 461
5. Point-of-Purchase Displays 589
Glossary 687
Bibliography 690
Index 691
