Last Updated on September 13, 2024
What has calcium, vitamin D, and is nutrient rich? If you guessed milk, then you are 100% correct! Milk is an extremely common beverage around the world, and is believed to be recession proof. Usually we all know milk by the ugly plastic bottle with the different colored caps to showcase it’s percentages (of course the design varies if you are reading this from another part of the world).
The boring design hurts my eyes each time I take it out of the refrigerator. This makes me wonder if the companies even care about how their product is presented to us. The cold hard truth is that most of them don’t really care, and are only in it for the money. A few passionate companies however care about their brand too much to leave the plastic bottle un-designed.
The reality is that milk gets bad in a matter of two or three weeks. Business wise, there is no point to spend money on a design that will get thrown away in a couple of days (I’m not saying this is what every single company thinks, but most of them do).
Think about this for a moment, other packaging gets thrown away as well. Take for example chocolate bars, we eat them and thrown them away, but does the packaging on them looks boring? We can all understand saving money, but when you make a great product, you should make great packaging for it as well.
Today for your inspiration we have collected some incredible examples of milk packaging design. The following students, designers, and design agencies took creativity to a whole new level. Coming up with milk designs might sound easy, but when you are presented with a black piece of paper it’s certainly not.
Most of the following designs are still in their concept stage, however a few of them you can find at your local grocery store. If you are a packaging designer, we believe this unique collection will get your creativity juices flowing!
1. Student Work – Pau Puig Vázquez
Designed by Pau Puig Vázquez | Country: Spain
2. Student Work – Michela Monterosso
Designed by Michela Monterosso | Country: Italy
3. MLK
Designed by Depot WPF Branding Agency | Country: Russia
4. Spotted Cow
Designed by Motto | Country: United States
5. Soy Mamelle
Designed by KIAN | Country: Russia
6. Mew
Designed by Default | Country: Thailand
7. 8th Continent Soymilk
Designed by BBDO West | Illustration: Ben Javens | Country: United States
8. Student Work – Audrée Lapierre
Designed by Audrée Lapierre | Country: Canada
9. Bill’s Milkshakes
Designed by ILoveDust | Country: United Kingdom
10. Student Work – Arantxa Rues
Designed by Arantxa Rues | Country: Spain
11. Mellanmjölk
Designed by Amore | Country: Sweden
12. Student Work – Ashley Linnenbank
Designed by Ashley Linnenbank | Country: United States
13. Milk Carton Concept
Designed by Raw Edges | Country: United Kingdom
14. Feez
Designed by HvingtQuatre | Country: France
15. Schroeder Milk
Designed by Capsule | Country: United States
16. Forest Milk
Designed by Rise Design Office | Country: Japan
17. Milko Milk
Designed by United Power | Country: Sweden
18. Arla Milk – WWF Earth Hour
Designed by Milk | Country: Sweden | Fonts used: Futura
19. Milk Concept
Designed by David Fung | Country: United States | Fonts used: Archer
20. Arla Milk Bottle
Designed by Neumeister | Country: Sweden
21. Milk Collection
Designed by Hattomonkey | Country: Russia
22. LAIT
Designed by Marc Praquin | Country: France
23. Cravendale Milk
Designed by Sanna Annukka | Country: United Kingdom
24. Summercow
Designed by Bili Cardona | Country: Spain
25. Milk, Man
Designed by Ben Stevens | Country: Australia
26. Muscle Milk: ReUp
Designed by Astro Studio | Country: United States
27. Quick Chek
Designed by Lippincott | Country: United States
28. Milla Confessions
Designed by Christy Srisanan and Erick Barrios | Country: United States
29. Kido
Designed by Esra Oguz | Country: Turkey
30. Organic Valley
Designed by Lisa Ellerin, Alicia Prentice, Olivia Duval, Chris Yoon, Amy Ross, Blake Sanders | Country: United States
