Services

Design & Artwork

We visualise ideas.

What says more about a brand than its packaging? In order to convey the desired image to consumers, we focus on your brand identity and let it shine through in distinctive designs.
Through our design, we give your packaging a characteristic appearance and thus increase its attractiveness on the shelf.

Our team converts all requirements from the packaging concept to the layout creation or design adaptation unerringly and economically into perfect print templates for you.

We accompany you on the way to the right design for your packaging!
With our many years of experience, we are able to adapt your specifications to the printing machines used. The resulting findings are used in the print-specific Repro preparation of each motif.

Style guide

The style guide is a basic signpost for the design of a brand - visual appearance elements are defined to determine the common thread in the brand design. These guidelines ensure a uniform appearance of your communication media and packaging and are an indispensable standard for design projects.

We understand this important point as a principle of our work and are happy to accompany you in the development of your style guide. If you wish, we can create a corporate design manual for you in brand design, which contains the fundamental design elements. This includes details such as logos, colour concepts, motifs or images and various typographies, which we define as design guidelines.

These in turn serve as a reference for all future content designs in your brand communication. Further packaging developments can be easily implemented and the story of your brand can be told.

Masters & Adaptations

Whether packaging development, design or adaptation - with us, every master and every variant is realised with the highest degree of precision. Thanks to our extremely efficient workflow between project management and graphics, we can reliably deliver high-quality results.

At this point, we naturally carry out targeted research, check the market conditions and incorporate your ideas and wishes into the design. From the creative phase to printing, we are your point of contact to ensure that you impress at the point of sale.

The given requirements of future production are also taken into account. Specific information on the printing process, substrate, machine and colour is constantly incorporated by our printing specialists.
Since the data is optimised right from the start with a view to later printing, the layouts we supply serve as perfect print templates.

Regardless of whether you have us create the complete master design or deliver a final design, the artwork of any type of packaging is always prepared and finalised according to printing and typographic guidelines.

Artwork services

What we mean by this

Format/language adaptations

Table/foreign language typesetting

Qualitative image and text review

Review of the corporate design specifications

Punching and page layout

and much more.

Retouch

Our retouching can do much more than the usual digital image processing. We offer you a comprehensive range of services with a focus on beauty retouching, colour adjustments, composing and the removal of distracting elements.

We know what kind of image processing leads to the desired result so that your packaging design looks irresistible. You don't have a second chance to make a first impression. Your images are adapted and finalised for the desired presentation and printing of the design.

Our retouching experts, who have the technical expertise but also a comprehensive understanding of design, are at your disposal for any requirements. They retouch and optimise down to the smallest detail to ensure an effective and well-planned presentation at the point of sale.

3D CGI Visuals

Attractive packaging visualisation is not achieved by simple presentation alone. For this reason, we at Köstlin have specialised in both real and digital brand presentations in virtual space. With our expertise in 3D visualisations of all kinds, we are able to realise the user experience for online and offline customers individually and not only three-dimensionally, but absolutely photorealistically.

The three-dimensional visualisation of the final packaging not only supports your sales and marketing purposes, but also helps with the final check of the packaging design created. A 3D simulation or a packaging dummy based on it shows what a print-ready PDF cannot do in its entirety.

Directly from the original data, we create your packaging projects as 3D or CGI representations in the appropriate shape, colour, material and with all possible finishes. So we know the important role of this design and sampling phase.

Packaging dummy

Alternatively, we can also create your packaging as a realistic and colour-binding mock-up. From the print data, we produce your packaging as a haptic sample before the actual product launch at the point of sale.

With a detailed Dummy we make your packaging tangible and tangible. This brings you one step closer to your final packaging before the market launch and you can use it for trade fairs, presentations or photo shoots.

We can produce digitally printed runs from various substrates - whether labels, film or folding boxes. Your desired product sample becomes a true-to-scale look-a-like dummy "to touch" and an unbeatable sales argument.