From mailer boxes and tuck boxes to cosmetic rigid boxes and stand-up pouches — Runtym Studios is a specialist packaging design studio for DTC brands and Amazon sellers. Print-ready dielines, photoreal 3D mockups, and a 48-hour first-concept guarantee on every project.
Whether you're shipping a subscription mailer, launching a beauty box, or filling a stand-up pouch with single-origin coffee — we design for it. Every format ships with structural dielines, surface artwork, and a 3D mockup.
Branded e-commerce shipping boxes that double as your unboxing moment.
DTC favoriteLightweight retail boxes — tuck-tab closures, vibrant print, shelf-ready.
Retail standardBeauty and skincare boxes with foil, emboss, and premium finishes.
PremiumLuxury magnetic and 2-piece rigid boxes for high-perceived-value SKUs.
LuxuryCoffee, snack, and supplement pouches — gusset and zip-lock variants.
Best sellerCustom-printed mylar with high-barrier finishes for tea, herbs, dry goods.
FBA-readyBottle labels, jar labels, hangtags — die-cut and finish-spec'd.
VersatileSingle-serve sachets and stick packs — perfect for sampling and trial sizes.
Single-serveBuyers form a purchase decision about your product in roughly 2.5 seconds at retail and under one second on an Amazon search results page. In both contexts, the only thing influencing that decision is your packaging. Not your ingredients. Not your founder story. Not your COGS. Your packaging.
This is why packaging is, dollar-for-dollar, the most leveraged design surface in product business. A $1,000 packaging refresh can lift Amazon CTR by 15–25% and shelf conversion by similar margins — outcomes that pay back the investment inside a single product run.
And yet most product brands treat packaging as an afterthought: a logo dropped onto a stock template, with the legal copy back-loaded by an intern at midnight. The brands winning their categories — the Liquid Death, Athletic Greens, Olipop, Magic Spoon, Recess — invested in packaging design first, and built the rest of the brand on top of that foundation.
We design packaging in three layers, in this order:
The format itself — box style, fold pattern, material, finish, closure. Most agencies skip this and inherit whatever the printer's default die is. We start here because the wrong format will sink even great surface design. A premium serum doesn't ship in a cheap-feeling tuck box. A coffee with a sustainability story doesn't print on virgin SBS.
The artwork that lives on the structure — typography, color, illustration, photography, hierarchy. This is what most studios call "packaging design," and it's where we spend the bulk of project time. We design two distinct directions for every project, then refine the chosen one through two revision rounds.
The handover that makes sure what you approve is what you receive. Dielines that match the printer's die exactly. Bleeds set correctly. Color profiles assigned. Finishes called out. Soft-proof PDFs that show the file as it will print. We've shipped to printers in the US, UK, Pakistan, China, and Vietnam — we know the spec quirks of each region.
If your packaging doesn't pass print on the first attempt, you've already lost two weeks. Print confidence is half the value we deliver.
"Print-ready" is industry shorthand that's worth nothing without specifics. Here's what every Runtym packaging delivery actually contains:
This is the standard hand-off for every packaging project, on every plan. Your printer should be able to produce your packaging without one phone call back to us.
Same product. Same price. Wildly different outcomes once it hits the shelf or the search results page.
The default route — fast, cheap, and statistically guaranteed to underperform.
The investment pays back in the first product run — usually multiple times over.
Subscription mailers, launch boxes, premium DTC sleeves — we design mailer boxes that survive courier handling and earn the unboxing video. Corrugated kraft, printed inside and out, peel-and-seal closures, custom inserts.
Tuck-end retail boxes for supplements, snacks, beauty, and home goods. Cosmetic-grade SBS board with foil, emboss, and spot-UV finishes that read premium even at category-average price points.
Custom-printed flexible packaging — coffee bags with one-way valves, snack pouches with zip closures, supplement sachets, and high-barrier mylar for tea and herbs. Gusset and stand-up variants with film-spec advice.
A quick reference to the terms that come up in every packaging project. We handle all of this on your behalf — but it helps to know what you're approving.
Glossy lacquer applied to specific areas — usually logos or product names — for a tactile contrast.
Velvet-feel matte coating that dramatically increases perceived value.
Metallic foil pressed into the substrate — gold, silver, holographic, copper.
Raised or recessed impressions — works beautifully on uncoated kraft.
Standard four-color process print. Reliable, cheaper, no color-match guarantee.
Spot color matching for brand-critical hues. More expensive, perfect consistency.
The flat technical drawing showing cuts, folds, and bleeds for the printer.
Extra 3mm of artwork beyond the trim line — prevents white edges after cutting.
Responsibly sourced paperboard — increasingly a hard requirement for retail buyers.
A snapshot of recent packaging design across food, beauty, supplements, and DTC product brands.
Our packaging projects start at $299 for a single format (one box or pouch) on the Starter plan. Multi-format brand systems run $599–$999 per project on Growth and Brand plans. Custom enterprise scopes are quoted bespoke. See full pricing.
Yes — every packaging project ships with print-ready files: high-resolution PDF/X-1a or PDF/X-4 (your printer's preferred spec), accurate dielines on a separate layer, swatch lists with Pantone or CMYK callouts, and a cover sheet specifying finishes, varnishes, and substrates. Your printer should not need to call us with questions.
Yes. We've designed for blister packs, tin cans, glass jars with custom shrink sleeves, multi-pack outer cartons, retail-ready shippers, point-of-sale displays, and just about every common DTC format. If your printer can produce a die for it, we can design it.
Optional add-on. We can either (a) hand off press-ready files for your team to send to print, or (b) liaise directly with your printer on dielines, color profiles, special finishes, and proofing. We don't take a margin on print costs — supplier introductions are at-cost if you don't have one.
Standard turnaround is 2–3 weeks end to end: 48 hours for first concepts, 5–7 days for refinement and revisions, 3–4 days for final dieline accuracy and prepress. Rush turnarounds (8–10 days) are available with a 25% rush fee.
Yes — every Brand and Retainer plan includes photoreal 3D mockups suitable for Amazon listings, social media, and pitch decks. Most clients use them in launch creative before the first physical print run is even ready.
Yes. Our refresh process maps what to keep (existing equity), what to evolve (visual cues that need modernizing), and what to retire (elements actively hurting the brand). Most refreshes preserve 60–70% of recognition while resolving the conversion or shelf issues that triggered the redesign.
Constantly. We design for FSC-certified board, post-consumer recycled stock, soy-based inks, biodegradable lining, compostable mylar, and uncoated/unlaminated finishes. We can also advise on substrate substitutions if your current packaging has sustainability issues.