Roundup

Seal the Deal: Classy Ways to Use Stickers on Your Packaging

May 31, 2017

Stickers are a low cost custom packaging solution, and yet they have the power to make your unboxing experience feel VIP. These seven brands have found clever ways to use stickers to elevate their brand experience without breaking the bank.

This roundup includes inspiration from some of our favorite companies and designers around the web. Unless specified, these designs are not made by Lumi.

Suol's Box Seal

Sub in a sticker for tape on your mailer box to get a label-like look that spans a wide range of box or mailer sizes.

Images via Vincent Schwenk

A.K. Rikk's Tissue Seal

In e-commerce packaging, stickers are most often found on the inside, sealing tissue that’s wrapped around apparel or accessories. If you’re already sealing the tissue, it might as well be with a branded sticker.

Image via Conduit Studio

Comme Co’s Metallic Seal

Nothing says “This is legit,” quite like an embossed metallic sticker. These take a little extra time to DIY, but they’re an inexpensive ticket to classier packaging.

Image via Pop-Pac

A-100's Handwritten Box Label

Handwriting instantly makes your product feel closer to the source — you. To make your product feel more personal, try printed stickers with places to write out details about your product.

Image via Savvy Agency

120WaterAudit’s Return Seal

This brand ships out water testing kits that are meant to be returned for testing. To make returns easy for the customer (i.e. no digging through junk drawers for packing tape) they include a large sticker which works great for keeping mailer boxes closed in shipping.

Image via Co-Motion

Fiks’s mailer stickers

Colored labels add some spunk and consistency to otherwise blank mailers. Pro-tipL wrapping the sticker around the edge of your mailer tends to feel a bit more finished.