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Custom hospitality and retail packaging, designed in Toronto
Custom hospitality packaging is our main packaging discipline: takeaway and dessert boxes, branded bags, printed food-service papers, PR boxes and guest gifting for restaurants, hotels and venues. We also design retail and luxury-brand packaging. Structural and graphic design is created in-house in Toronto; manufacturing is facilitated through our established worldwide supply chain, with sourcing, sampling, inspection and delivery managed end to end for clients worldwide.
How we approach it
Most packaging briefs arrive as a shape problem and a brand problem at the same time: the product has to survive freight, sit correctly on a shelf or a table, and still read as the brand when a customer opens it. We start with construction — dieline, board weight, insert geometry, closure — and design the artwork into that structure instead of laying it over a stock box.
Finishing is where a packaging program earns its cost, so it is specified in writing before sourcing: gold and metallic foil stamping, blind or registered embossing and debossing, spot UV, soft-touch lamination, die-cutting and Pantone colour matching. You approve a physical sample against that specification before anything runs at volume, and the same specification travels with the job to the factory floor.
Deliverables
What you receive
Rigid & luxury boxes
Magnetic-close, two-piece lid and base, drawer and collapsible rigid construction with wrapped specialty stock, ribbon pulls and foam or moulded pulp inserts.
Mailers & shippers
Corrugated mailers, shipper boxes and paper or poly mailers engineered for freight and printed inside and out for the unboxing.
Retail bags & totes
Rope-handle and euro-tote shopping bags matched to the box suite in stock, colour and finish.
Hangtags, labels & seals
Woven and printed hangtags, care and neck labels, product stickers, seals and branded tissue.
Inserts & structure
Foam, moulded pulp, corrugated and printed inserts that hold product in position through transit.
Print finishing
Foil stamping, embossing, debossing, spot UV, soft-touch lamination, die-cutting and Pantone matching.
Process
Discover to deliver
Discover
Product dimensions, quantity, freight route, shelf or gifting context and budget range.
Design
Dielines, construction drawings and artwork developed in-house against the brand.
Source
Factory selection across the supply chain, costed against stock, finish and volume.
Sample
A physical sample you hold and approve before anything runs.
Produce
Production with in-line and final inspection against the approved sample.
Deliver
Freight, customs documentation and delivery to the warehouse, store or venue.
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Questions
Custom packaging: common questions
- Do you specialise in custom hospitality packaging?
- Yes. Hospitality is ViCES Studio's main packaging discipline. We design custom takeaway and dessert boxes, branded bags, printed food-service papers, PR boxes and guest gifting for restaurants, hotels and venues. Food-contact, grease and moisture requirements are specified for the intended use before sampling. Manufacturing is facilitated through our worldwide supply chain.
- How much does custom packaging cost in Toronto?
- Cost is driven by construction, materials, decoration, quantity and freight. ViCES Studio quotes against the budget range submitted with the brief — from under $2,500 to $50,000+ — so the design direction is costed against the real budget. Submit a brief for preliminary costing before anything is committed.
- What are the minimum order quantities for custom packaging?
- Minimums depend on the construction and the factory. Small high-touch runs such as PR and gifting boxes are routine, and luxury gifting programs can run with no minimum. Larger retail packaging programs scale to full shelf volume.
- Do you provide a physical sample before production?
- Yes. A physical sample is produced and approved against the written specification before anything runs at volume, and that approved sample is the reference used for in-line and final inspection.
- How long does a custom packaging program take?
- Most programs run four to eight weeks from approved design through to delivery, depending on construction, decoration method and freight route.
- Do you offer rush turnaround for tight deadlines?
- Rush timelines are possible depending on the construction, decoration method and freight route. The earlier the brief arrives, the more room there is to compress design, sourcing and production around your date.
- What types of custom packaging does ViCES Studio produce?
- Rigid and luxury boxes, folding cartons, corrugated mailers and shippers, retail bags, hangtags, care and neck labels, stickers and seals, printed tissue and structural inserts. Programs are usually delivered as a matched suite so the box, bag, tag and insert share stock, colour and finish.
- Is packaging designed in-house or sourced from a catalogue?
- Design is done in-house and fully custom, including dielines and construction drawings. Manufacturing is facilitated through an established worldwide supply chain that ViCES Studio sources, samples and inspects, so nothing is an off-the-shelf catalogue item.
- Can you produce packaging for brands outside Toronto?
- Yes. The studio is based in Toronto with a Miami presence and services clients worldwide, with manufacturing facilitated through an established global supply chain and freight, customs and delivery managed end to end.
- What finishing options are available?
- Gold and metallic foil stamping, blind and registered embossing, debossing, spot UV, soft-touch lamination, die-cutting and Pantone colour matching, specified before sourcing so costing reflects the finish.
Start a custom packaging program
Send the brief, target quantity, timeline and budget range. We return a recommended creative and production path, preliminary costing and a sampling plan.