Creatsy × noissue: Designing Custom Mockups for the World's Leading Sustainable Packaging Brand
How we made packaging mockups for noissue
Look closely at the black tape in one of our mailing box mockups and you’ll find two names printed along it. CREATSY & NOISSUE. The lettering runs under a pair of gold scissors and disappears around the roll. In the editable file, that strip can carry the name of a record shop, a florist, or whoever happens to open it next
We teamed up with noissue to photograph their packaging and turn those photographs into mockups. Their team could use the files to introduce products or put together a campaign. Designers could work with the very same packaging long before they had a printed sample in their hands. We made more than 250 editable mockups across the collection, including the mailing boxes, food paper and tote bags.
noissue supplies custom packaging to businesses. We photographed their products in our studio in Katowice, Poland, and built a layered Photoshop file for each scene. Replace the artwork in a Smart Object and the new print follows the folds and shadows in the photograph. noissue used the files for product banners and to introduce designers in its community. You can use the same scenes on Creatsy to show a client their packaging before the first print run.
Our packing tape set came out in 2019. We published a bakery paper set in 2021 and a seven-set mailing box bundle in 2023. Ten sets and bundles from the collaboration add up to 304 editable mockup files. A client presentation might need just three. Which three depends on what the business sells and how it reaches the customer.
How to present a mail-order brand
For a mail-order brand, show the parcel twice. The closed box lets the client judge the print on the lid and see where the shipping label goes. The open box shows how the tissue and insert sit together under the lid. We made 50 mailing box scenes across seven sets for noissue, including one with a card clipped over the tissue. Use that view when the client has spent as much time on the message inside as on the logo outside.
For one of its banners, noissue used our fifth mailing box set to show its Eco Packaging Alliance labels. A strip of bright green labels hangs over the front edge. The noissue name sits on the side of the box, where it’s still legible behind the strip. Giving the label and the name separate faces of the box keeps the two legible even in a small banner.
Check the width of the mailer and the tape
Our kraft mailer set covers three sizes, from 150 to 300 mm wide when closed. Start with the smallest. A long shop name that looks fine on the largest envelope may leave almost no margin on the narrow one. Then try the packed view. The corners of the box inside change how much of the front panel lies flat.
Packing tape calls for a different adjustment. We photographed 50 mm and 71 mm rolls. When you move a design onto the narrower tape, check the type size and the spacing between repeats separately. You may want smaller letters and just as much space between names. A strip across the lid makes that call easier than a roll alone.
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Choose a sticker, stamp or insert
A sticker on a honey jar lid gives you a full circle for the design. A sticker sealing a pizza box bends across two faces. Center the shop name over that bend and half of it can disappear from the front view. We made sticker scenes for both jobs, along with candle labels, envelopes and retail bags. For a seal, keep the words on one face and let the color or pattern carry around the edge.
For brands that stamp their packaging by hand, the impression is what a client needs to approve. We made sets for noissue’s wooden and self-inking stamps. The wooden stamp beside a printed hang tag is useful for a maker’s mark. Choose the hand pressing a self-inking stamp to paper when you want to show where a shop can place its logo on each order.
How noissue presented its card designs
In 2021, noissue introduced nine designers who had created thank-you card templates for its customers. The artists supplied the designs. We made the mockup scenes noissue used to present them. The two cards here are by Porto letterer Eva Couto. The hand-held view gives a shop owner a sense of scale even before they read the card dimensions. For an insert of your own, add a second view inside the box so the client can see where their customer will find it.
Choose food paper by what it wraps
A food paper mockup should show how much of the print fits around one serving. In our noissue food paper collection, 32 scenes cover everything from rolls to wrapped bread, burgers and paper under a pizza. For a bakery brief, we’d start with an open sheet and one of the baguette mockups. The first lets the client see the repeat. The second shows what they’ll hand over the counter.
A baguette leaves a long band of paper visible. A burger wrapper gathers underneath the bun, so a word printed only once can end up hidden. Try a smaller repeat, or put the name on the sticker that closes the wrap. In the burger mockup, the yellow paper and the black seal give you room to try either layout in the same scene.
Paper for serving cheese
For a deli or cheesemonger, the paper may stay on the table after the food is unwrapped. We built the Camembert scene around an open sheet on a serving board. A larger motif has room to read here. Put that view beside the roll when you pitch the design. The client can judge the pattern on its own and see how much of it will show around the cheese.
Explore the food wrapping paper mockups
Check the print on a full tote
A flat tote gives the client a clear look at the print. Fill the bag with groceries and the fabric gathers at the sides, taking some of the artwork with it. Across seven sets we photographed noissue’s totes empty, filled and carried. Use a front view to settle the size of the design, then check its placement on the bag the customer will actually carry.
For its own tote banner, noissue used a scene with a baguette and newspaper in the bag. The large illustration runs off the front panel. The name, set vertically beside the handle, is still easy to read. Paris designer Claire Deasy paired our card and tote mockups for Studio Véron, showing how one identity works on both paper and fabric.
Which mockups should you start with?
For a bakery pitch, start with the pattern on a sheet. Follow it with the paper wrapped around a loaf and the tote at pickup. For a subscription box, use the sealed parcel, the open box and a close view of the insert. Choose the pieces the customer will handle, in the order they’ll handle them.
The collection
Editable files in each set or bundle:
Mailing boxes · 50 files
Kraft mailers · 22 files
Packing tape · 17 files
Shipping labels · 17 files
Food wrapping paper · 32 files
Stickers · 54 files
Cards and inserts · 22 files
Wooden stamps · 19 files
Self-inking stamps · 8 files
Tote bags · 63 files