Time for a little inspiration. Package design can be tricky, but as you can see here, sometimes it can be relatively simple and still come across as beling elegant. Sometimes, less is more….. Here are over 100 examples of package design that either has a minimal style, or a typographic based solution. If you like these and you’d like to learn more about package design, TheDieline.com and LovelyPackage.com are the places to visit. A big thanks goes out to them for a lot of the images you see here.

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These textures were made in Photoshop by layering various grunge and paper textures together along with floral patterns. They may not have a wide variety of uses, but I think they’ll really come in handy when you find a place for them in your designs. Here are links to the patterns that were used:

Floral Pattern by Snufver
Flowery Stuff 3 by gild-a-stock
Flowery Stuff 2 by gild-a-stock
Tapete by mackz
Another lovely blue by jinifur

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Congratulations to Cindy, Patrick Serrano, and John (the John who’s comment was “WANT”). I want to thank everyone for tha awesome feedback that came in. I had a hunch that everyone would like this app, but sounds like you guys really, really, really like it (which makes me happy) Anyway, If you didn’t win Brush Pilot retails for $15 in case anyone was wondering. Also, we’ve updated it to version 1.02 already that fixed a few major bugs. SO, if you haven’t already you can download version 1.02 at BrushPilotApp.com. Thanks again everyone!

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In case you’ve been wondering what I’ve been up to lately, well, here it is. After lots of hard work and testing, I’m proud to release my latest pet project, Brush Pilot 1.02. It’s a lightweight, fast Photoshop Brush Previewer for OS X. In the spirit of BittBox, I’m giving away 3 free copies to some lucky commenters. Make sure and read the rules, and good luck!

Visit BrushPilotApp.com to download a demo and read more details.

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I’m returning to my “roots” with set, so to speak. Instead of doing some fancy photoshop work like in the past couple of weeks, I thought I’d offer up a set of plain ‘ol grass textures for you guys to take advantage of. Enjoy!

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