Recently, Print Magazine approached four design and packaging firms with a simple brief: If marijuana was legal, how could it be packaged? The following are the ideas and proposals that came from that brief. So… which one would you pick?
Version 1: By The Heads of State
Version 2: By Base Design
Version 3: By Stromme Throndsen
Version 4: By LUST
Wow that looks really awesome. I think it should be legal anyway, does less damage than drinking and NOBODY has ever died as a direct result of it.
as they say on twitter #FAIL.
unimaginative and lacking innovation with regards to font-work and lack or originality. some of the casing has interesting design.
this is a disappointment.
so much more could be brought into this re: symbolism, iconography and simply the history and different stands and variations of the plant.
i'll stick with a zip lock bag for the moment . . .
haha i like the heads of state
#4 is full of lies, #3 looks pretentious, #2 is non-existent (how sickeningly clever?) and #1 would only sell three out of the six varieties. who would ever want seeds & stems, schwag, or "possibly oregano"?
marihuana IS legal in some countries
it's sold in little bags just like where it's illegal…
I wish people would get over the "roll your own joint" look and graduate to something that actually looks mass produced. Take cigarettes for example, if you roll your own, then yes they look like the pics above, but straight out of the factory they look like the cigarettes that we know and smoke today. The packaging looks great, but i can't take it seriously when every picture has hand rolled joints in it. Does that make sense or am i just over analytic?
I personally would purchase the first 2 pouches. I'd pay upwards of 60-70 if that is some really good dro. All my friends are old school joint smokers though, so they would go for those packaged ones and be set for life. Just the ease of using pre-rolled joints is great for the eldery patients like my grandpa.
And on that note. Megalize Larijuana! :P
I would not pick based on marketing, I would look for some that Monsanto hasnt messed with.
These are kind of lame.
#1 looks sterile and medical like suppositories.
#2 looks generic,you ever see those white cans with just BEER on the side?
#3 is the only mildly appealing design
#4 I don't even understand, do you smoke the chart?
OK I gave them a second look and they are ALL terrible! Nothing realistic or mass producable, these art students ideas are just mediocre! (The leather case has a Weezer insignia on it!)
Did these designers even research weed… or even listen to any reggae before attampting this?
I'd go for the tin/plastic box :)
probably #1
also, first post
doesn't matter how it's packaged it needs to be done. I'm 50 with a 25 year old daughter and a sone who was murdered at 17. none of this had nothing to do with weed exceptd if the police had more time chasing the real bad guys instead of busting weed crooks maybe we'd have a better societey. as an adulut who used to smoke given the choice of a state sponsored outlet of some guy who deals out of his house i would go to the state controlled store instead of risking a blacket marketeer. on and by the way it would free up the police to chase after the bastards like the ones who shot my son, and the black market dealers who sell to anybody. where i grew up it was easier to score weed than booze. prohibition doeson't work. legalize this plant for adults and collect taxes on growth and disrtibution and help keep the government from jacking up all of our other taxes.
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don't assume it'll be smoked. the packaging will have creation date, health warnings, tax stamp, probably embedded rfid, usage warnings, multiple colors in a branding scheme, chemical content, weblinks and 800 numbers, marketing contests/subscription/coupon.. for rolled cigarettes, would probably use very similar boxes to todays for shipping/retail/cost purposes. i'd bet the real innovation would be in edible forms and hemp products.
When weed is legalized, Monsanto is going to make a genetically-engineered version of it.
Some lawmakers love weed so much…they want to keep it illegal so Monsanto doesn't get their dirty hands on it.
I can see this as part of every metrosexuals "man bag" ;-)
1st link is French not German.
Is it just me of has basedesign phoned this one in? Putting a sticker on a glasses case, a film case and an altoids tin doesnt really scream 'design' to me.
Also, cant help thinking that if it was legal, they would look just like cigarettes
Legalizing marijuana makes a lot of sense. And i am not a pot smoker (never did).
Version 4.
Version 1 would not protect the product.
Version 2 does not give USDA or FDA information.
Version 3 is wasteful packaging.
If Marijuana WERE legal.
I think versions 1 and 3 are the best, the other two aren't bad but are a bit tired in their approach to the drug. The two that look a mix between cigarettes and sweets are the nicest..
If Marijuana WERE legal.
Subjunctive.
Great Design. Poor Grammar
:)
Why would manufacturers twist the ends when they already have manufacturing processes that make thin cigarettes? Instead of re-inventing the wheel, they'd use machinery they already have to create a product that looked like one that is already on the market to assure the customer that what they're getting is quality and not something grown in someone's back yard.
Quality differentiation is the key to mass marketing away the segment from the street vendor.
The Lust design sucks, as the label contains some misinformation about marijuana.
Dependance/addiction? Please! Serious scientists haven't believed that in 40 years.
As for the rest of the designs, none of them is going to convince me to give up homegrown.
Dismissed. Next?
I just want my weed to come in a clear bag not pre-rolled or in some fancy container. I want to roll my own joints and blunts. What they should do is sell pot packages which could include a bong and a onze or papers and a slice. Why not get a 12 pack of dutches and a half all at one location in a "Get High" bundle.
I can dig it..
well dats great but need to come more in a package lol
That was the most AWFUl thing i have ever seen, the people that made this clearly don't know what a spliff loks like…
I'd appreciate it more if it were in simple packages like cigarettes.
I like the White Widow design box in Version 3, but the logo seems like a rip of Weezer/Wonder Woman. Version 4 is making my brain bleed.
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I would go with the simple baggie design K.I.S.S. Keep It Simple Stupid and while on the subject make it legal tax it and leave my cigarettes alone.
Yes, yes, yes! YES!!!
The baggies who cares about packaging not pot smokers (I live with one). Content is king I say sell it tax it and help pull the economy out of this slump oh and leave my cigarettes alone :D
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Really cool concept brought to life. Madam you are wonderful!
i would only choose something made to be bio-degradable because you are goi ng to thro the package away anyways and we allready poduce way to much garbage with products now days. marijuana is good we should not make it produce harmful by products to litter the streets with.
Is that a flying =w=?
why would people buy possibly oregano or stems and seeds joints? thats fucking retarted haha
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!
God this makes me want pot legal..
Version 2 because that's how I carry it around right now. Just a tin/metal box where you can put all kinds of stuff in, everyone should get one.
I'm from the Netherlands and marijuana is legal out here. But they still wrap a little plastic bag around it.
i'm thinking the black and green pouches for sure.
LOL Make Weed legal and smoking illegal =)
Nice. I like Version 1: By The Heads of State the best.
The first one. hands down. the third comes in second. and the other two… umm?
Sweet
It's cute, but it will not be legalized. However, let's just say it might, the packaging should be clear with the actual bud showing… like a good old dime-bag.
i like design #1 and #3 (the green and black baggies and the black container that looks like a cigar holder, i dont however, like the box design that says white widow on the side of it). design #2 made me literaly lol i love how u can read altoids on the outside of it…classic.
That third version – definitely! The black-green-white color scheme looks great.
You're a loser, these suck. Bad rolls too.
no need those fancy design still get the great sales!
In some countries it's legal, and believe me, it also comes in little plastic bags.
I am a fan of the option 1 and the G13 version of 3. The others seems as if they would blend into the chaos of the product shelves. I think that v1 and v3 would stand out from cigs and convey a clean branded product.
I dont like them rolling my spliffs it should be sold like a pouch of tobbaco.
Great work. Too bad most of the comments contained here read as though they were texted while en route on the short bus.
you kidding me? Way to put a sticker on an existing box. They should have at least shopped out the ALTOIDS letters!
I would go for the little film canisters in design #2. Looks so old school. LOL
everything is allowable, now…if not, it will againts human right…
ddduuuuhhhh…
Marijuana should never be legalised..like alcohol its sting is slow in coming but wow when it does (and it will) it is devastating….and if you ever mentally recover….its a long hard road back to normality reality and ultimate joy (naturally)
Why are we not showcasing the actual product? This is horrible packaging. Everyone knows you gotta look at the product before purchasing it…
Obviously these people don't smoke and are just amateur package designers.
NEXT.
dude what about buyin a box of big ass blunts just like cigars? lol a cuban of weed? omg
What a disappointing, lame and quarter-hearted effort with no understanding of their audience.
Probably Marijuana will never be legalized, yet the drug has apparently worked wonders in bringing out the creativity of the designers. The Heads of State version of the packages is by far the best and the most imaginative.
The White Widow looks like a tampon, cool. Now we can bring back disco. Gettin my white suit out tomorrow, and polishing up the the old glass ball. Wonder if these will come with mcdonalds coupons.
Pretty cool packaging concept designs. I think the designs would be bags or clear containers so you can see the product inside.
haha are those real products. I 've seen some cool herb grinders before at: Herb Grinder Store
LEGALIZE this shit already let me smoke a god damn joint in public. pissin me off n shit…..geeze.
Marijuana is legal in Colorado, you just need to go to a doctor and express your anxiety issues first (and everybody has anxiety on one level or another).
In real life, they don't package individual joints. Right now it's mostly about edibles topical creams and clear plastic jars of herb. If anything, they emphasize healthy use of pot (IE smoking is really bad for you) such as vaporizers and pills.
It's great, all the douchebag dealers who usually sell all of the other really bad drugs (coke meth etc…) are going broke because their 'stable' money source is pot. Mexico will sink into a revolution because the only thing holding their s*** government together was the funds earned by exporting drugs and blaming the US for all their problems. This time it IS the fault of the US, we're going to legalize their major revenue source.
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This is one interestinjg concept! I am still laughing at some of these products. Hopefully we will find out if this is ture or not within a few years!
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