The Raging New Year Packaging Solution Trends For 2022

It’s the time of the year again, as the nights are getting short, cold, and cozy, and another pandemic year will wind down. In the meantime, we all are looking for gifts for our loved ones to see a smile on their faces; after all, they deserve this.

For many of us, this year wasn’t that good. Some of us lost our jobs, beloved family members, or friends because of covid, and now all of us want to end this year on good terms.

The packaging and designing of a gift is another love language. Whether you’re an owner of an online or retail business, the packaging of an item is the thing that helps you to stand above all. Even detectives say that the packaging design drift in the next year will increase tremendous transformation to people’s lifestyle, business plans, and a unique impression.

A packaging design should reflect the company’s main theme, should be modernized and up to date, and customers’ personal needs and expectations should keep in mind too. Many of the company’s customer departments have revealed that the packaging design was the toughest yet the most rewarding one.

How could we forget climate-safe and sustainable packaging products? These days, climate change is the hottest topic, from political meetings to even at the dinner table.

We have come up with the latest, climate-safe, and top gift packaging trends, which you can apply and let your customers have a wonderful and unique experience.

You can even get the idea to form these mentioned trends to design personal gift boxes. We are sure that the receiving one will get amazed.

1. Minimalism is the New Talk in the Town

There’s a time and a place for different bright and dark colorful packaging and clashing typography, but this isn’t it. 2021 has proved to be a year of minimalist packaging with one or two light colors at a time.

Upholding the less is more mantra; minimalism is all about space, muted palettes, and organic design. This minimalist trend is growing in popularity with brands and this is the trend that is having good attention from the consumer’s side. The different surveys and polls have shown that this trend will remain at the top spot even in 2022.

In the beginning, a unique and simplest design packaging gives your product a chance to say for itself. This technique is also pocket-friendly and eco-safe as it doesn’t require too much printing process.

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These uncluttered and uncomplicated designs demonstrated minimalism yet had the maximum and most powerful impact. Minimalism is making strong waves in the packaging design industry.

At this moment, visualize a cosmetic product with a minimalist one-color package or a hygiene product with an elegant and cool design. It doesn’t mean it has to be simple, dry, boring, and with no representation of colors. The main goal is to eliminate all insignificant details and remain with the point-to-point packaging order.

Let the product give a chance to get light in the market with its delicate appearance.

2. Localized Illustration Element

The illustration is a common thing in the market these days. The packaging industry is making the most use of it, and the localized illustration is the element that provides a product with an appealing and comforting look. It helps in providing the visible concept of the product and highlighting the brand.

Localized illustrations constantly have an important aspect in persuading customers’ awareness of the product and brand. Most customers prefer to buy product that shows a straight close relationship with the integrity and the category of the product.

You can design with the region’s history, any famous place, tribal artwork, or the story that is telling how the product was formed initially. Such illustrations largely have the chance to become clear and stand out in the market with its alone distinguishing packaged design.

3. Customized and Personal Packaging

Customized and personal packaging of a product is another way to feel your customers more warm and attached. It shows how your brand cares about them and how much they are close to your heart.

In this digital world, designing and printing aren’t that new and expensive at all. You can design different kinds of likable and digitalized packaging based on your consumer’s previous experience. You can even highlight the present events or any particular date.

For consideration, it’s the season of winter, and Christmas is just at our door. You may portray winters and Christmas unique vibes on your package briefly. It will give them warmth.

All around the world, big brands are following this trend as it helps in increasing their market value and trustworthy relationship with customers.

As the world is going through a pandemic, any website or brand owner even pays tribute to its public health community by designing its package in a very personal touch.

4. Furoshiki: The Cloth Wrapping

Furoshiki is the Japanese art of wrapping gift packages with cloth fabric instead of ordinary wrapping paper. It is old-fashioned to present a gift yet it is still in fashion and acknowledged by people.

It shows the humbleness, old tradition, and consideration towards our safety of this planet, and it is recyclable. You can design customized Furoshiki cloth fabric according to your brand needs or the leftover pieces of any cloth you can use.

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Furoshiki cloth wrapping is pocket-friendly, doesn’t cost your blood money, and is elegant, decent, and eco-friendly. Also, the furoshiki method can turn a piece of cloth fabric into a scarf or handbag.

These are especially important in these strange times as we are facing wave per wave of covid and its variants. Your loved ones should feel spoiled and happy during these unconventional holidays!

5. Returnable Packaging

Did you remember the milkman who used to deliver the fresh milk from the farm at your grandmother’s door when you were little? And nobody could think to throw that glass bottle as the considerable refund was given on return.

The shopkeeper used to return the amount when you gave them Pepsi and Coca-Cola glass bottles. This concept is now the hot trend in the town. These pandemic days have renewed old-fashioned trends with the new concepts. This is the one to talk about.

Doorways delivery is the new tradition in the world, and this trend is the best one for beverage delivery brands. Even the local bars and water companies can use this returnable packaging method effectively.

It provides more goals toward a safe environment as the plastic will be replaced with glass. 100% recyclable, and it has been adopted by big names. If you’re the one who is associated with any beverage supplying brand then you can use this.

Your glass bottles can be more customized by giving them some personal touch of your brand. It will appeal to the consumers directly.

Food brands can also use more portable and comfortable bags, which could return back easily.

6. DIY Ideas and Upcycling

In our family or friend circle, there’s always a person who knows how to recycle things properly and can transform that almost wasted product into a new and refreshing piece. If you’re the one, then this trend is going to be pretty much useful for you.

From lockdown to lockdown and social media, our generation seems to become much more creative with the extra numbers of hours at our homes. They are pros in upcycling, the art of creative reuse, and eager to display their creative and magical ideas, from turning old books into knife-holding cases and wrapping the Christmas tree in an old, used apron.

As the pandemic gives us plenty of time in our hands, and it’s the moment to make the best use of it. This is especially the high time as the packaging stores are packed with orders due to Christmas, and they cost much high.

You can pack your personal gifts by using this trend, and if you own a website store, then you can design your products too. It is low-costly and warm.

7. Luxury Packaging

Luxury packaging is another type of packaging that proceeds to attain quick publicity in the market. With the nowadays roaring economy and digitalized world, everyone wants to experience an extraordinary packaging of the world that speaks for itself.

We can see high-quality and preserved wines (white wine especially), whiskeys, smartphones, smartwatches, luxury tea, and coffee products, epicurean food, and more wrapped in luxury packaging.

They emphasize multi-layer packaging of the product, which includes a cardboard box, a custom rigid box, and then a high-quality glass bottle. This packaging is often done for the products consumed by high-class people of society.

Luxury multi-layered packaging would remain product fresh, stainless, and without human touch.

8. Edible Packaging

Do you know what the best form of recycling is? It is the one that happens in your gut and is chewed by your own teeth.

No more recycling plants are involved. 100% recyclable and made up of biodegradable products. What’s more, a customer needs when he can eat that packaging too. A lot more to eat, which is totally exciting.

Edible packaging is the optimum solution to this. Total biodegradability starts and ends with you.

Imagine, now you can drink your favorite eggnog by the mistletoe in a biodegradable cup made up of seaweeds and different flavors. This seaweed-based technology is being used by several foods, beverages, and coffee brands out there, and they have gained high popularity.

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According to Recycling Magazine, 74 percent of consumers said they would pay more for any sustainable packaging solution. Almost one-fourth of consumers are willing to pay an increased cost of 10% of the total. This poll shows that any brand can introduce its own personalized recyclable packaging trend as the buyers are ready to pay more to meet the cost.

Coffee, an edible coffee cup, has already been introduced in the market, which is made up of non-Gmo, heat resistant, and non-leaking products. It has won millions of hearts from all over the planet.

Heading into the holidays and the New Year, we suggest you sit with your team and think of an optimum biodegradable packaging solution for your brand.

9. Smart Packaging Solution

A box of half-cooked lasagna is in your refrigerator, and you don’t even know if it is still something that you can eat.

A smart packaging solution has blown up the industry with its color-changing unique feature that tells whether food is poisoned or not. Only a Qbar code isn’t a permanent solution. Now smart packaging is the fastest growing trend.

It tells the temperature, acidity, freshness of food, and the level of bacterial growth. Food companies and frozen food supplier dealers can get the idea to benefit their consumers the most.

10. Packaging That Helps to Grow New Plants

Yes, you read it right. A chocolate wrapper has been introduced that could grow into orange and mint when it is thrown into the soil.

At the same time, botanical papers have been produced that help to grow a new generation of plants when it is thrown.

A wide range of wedding cards, gift cards, confetti, and plant-able components could easily make. The confetti will grow into a new plant when it is decomposed into any fertile soil.

With so much time on our hands, we should get out of our comfort zone and make our way to our backyard to find sustainable solutions.

11. Finding Serenity and Calmness in Packaging

2022 expects to be another pandemic year in the world. We all find happiness, calmness, and serenity in the little things of our life. Packaging could be the reason for all.

After waiting for days and nights, spending saved money on a product, and then at the end, we would have a product wrapped in one color and eye-pleasing package. What else is happier than this?

Muted and complementary colors give humans a sigh of relief, comfort, and minimal typefaces make readability even easy.

This trend is getting all the hype among society and providing people with what they need most at this time.

12. Faux 3D Deco

This innovative 3D graphic illustration is the new technology in the packaging market. It gives a sophisticated and contemporary look to this design trend. Playing with depth, illusion, and colors is a sure-fire way to get consumers to stop and look at a product mesmerizingly.

As faux 3D is a technical and high energy-consuming effort to create. This detailed and up-to-date packaging tells the consumers that your brand is technology laced and you’re pretty much familiar with their demands of them.

It actually comes in the category of luxury packaging. Most smartphones and innovative technology-based companies are packaging their products as faux 3D designs.

13. Minimal Outside and Maximal Inside

Do you know a jacket is more beautiful when its interior layering is more comfortable and beautiful, too, just as the outer shell of that jacket? Well, the same is said for packaging design. It is a treat when you find an inner side of the box more beautiful and designed properly after revealing that the outer side is minimal.

Minimalist and simple logos are carried through the product's outside packaging, leading into a more bright, personally designed part of the inside. It would lead consumers to be more delighted and with your brand top of mind.

Are you Excited About the Trends of Packaging 2022?

Serene colorways, personally designed packaging made of sustainable and biodegradable products, and colorful illustrations tell us that a consumer is all looking for a positive vibe from your side.

As the holidays are coming, we would encourage you to make new resolutions about your brand, and this time, thinks most of the new and latest packaging design to give your product another life.

Another bonus tip from our bottom of the heart is that you should add customized short printed or handwritten notes. As we all crave some positive and overwhelming words from others. These short personal handwritten notes can do much.

It’s the thing most brands are missing in their design package.

Whether you are a brand or website owner, vendor, or customer, our top-list packaging trends should boost your mind and force you to take insightful actions.

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Got an idea for a great packaging design? Get in the action and make your boring, dull, old-fashioned, and creepy packaging into another shape.

This is the Christmas gift package from our side to you wrapped in beautiful and mind-blowing words. Give it a read and have amazing ideas in your mind during this season of the year. I hope that you’re going to apply one of these trends to wrap your product next time.