Entering the Third Dimension

What's in your brimming design portfolio so far? If you're like many graphic design students, you doubtless have a stack of two-dimensional work: logos, posters, print layouts, and maybe a few Web sites. Projects like these are just great for developing your design skills. Concentrating on one page, one canvas, can help you focus on the fundamentals—color, typography, composition, and so on.

Now while these projects are all very essential and no doubt excellent, they all have one thing in common: they are two-dimensional.

Packaging design adds the dimension of depth. To design product packaging properly, you must learn to visualize a package in three dimensions. You must be able to see how a package will look from ...

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