Packaging Design Packaging & label design in Manama, Bahrain
In Bahrain a home brand often begins with a sticker and grows into a product in shops and on Instagram. We help you move from a stuck-on label to a pack that looks like a real brand.
For Manama and Bahrain: home-based food brands, bakeries, cafes, soap and beauty makers, gift and event businesses.
The sticker that started the business is now holding it back.
Plenty of Bahraini brands start with a simple label printed in a hurry. It sold well to friends and followers, but a shop buyer or a gift customer reads it as a home project. The text is hard to read, the Arabic is an afterthought and the flavours look identical.
Printing in Bahrain is often in small runs, which makes mistakes expensive. We design for the printer you will use, set the dielines and bleed correctly, and make a simple system so adding a new flavour or size does not mean a new design each time.
What Bahraini brands ask us to pack
- Home food brand labels
- Bakery and sweets boxes
- Cafe cups and bags
- Soap and beauty packaging
- Gift and event boxes
What you get
You get label and pack design in Arabic and English, a system for your range, print-ready files for a local printer and images for Instagram and your store.
Structure & Dielines
The pack structure and dielines, worked out with your printer so the artwork fits the box, pouch, bottle or sleeve you will actually produce.
Pack Art Direction
Art direction for the pack: the look, imagery and tone that make the product stand out on a shelf or a screen, with brand guidelines for packaging.
Bilingual Label Layout
Arabic and English label layout, balanced so neither language is cramped, with space for the mandatory information you supply.
Range System
A range and variant system, so flavours, sizes or scents are clearly different and still obviously one family.
Print-ready Files
Print-ready artwork with bleeds, marks, spot colours and notes agreed with your printer, checked before it goes to press.
3D Mock-ups
3D mock-ups and flat shots for your online store, marketplace listing and sales presentations.
A new product to pack, or a pack that sells badly?
Tell us the product, the pack type and where it will be sold. We reply with questions and a scoped quote.
How it works
Step 1: Brief
The product, the shelf or screen it competes on, the printer and materials, and the languages and markets the pack must cover.
Step 2: Structure
Dielines and pack format agreed with your printer, so the design is made for the real object.
Step 3: Design
Routes shown on 3D mock-ups, then the chosen one developed across the range, with your label text placed correctly.
Step 4: Print-ready
Artwork prepared and checked with the printer, a press proof reviewed, and files handed over in your name.
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Project or retainer?
Questions
How much does packaging design cost in Bahrain?
It depends on the scope: number of products, pack types, languages and mock-ups. Send a short brief and we quote a fixed scope. Printing is paid to your printer.
Can you design for small print runs?
Yes. We choose materials and finishes that suit short runs, and we prepare files so the local printer does not guess.
Do you design Arabic and English labels?
Yes. Both are laid out together and tested at the real label size, so the text is readable and the layout is not crowded.
Who supplies the ingredient and legal text?
You do. You provide and validate the content, and check the labelling rules with the relevant authority or your consultant. We place it and tell you if it does not fit.
Can one design work for several flavours?
Yes. A simple system gives each flavour its own colour or icon while the layout stays the same.
Can you make images for Instagram?
Yes. We render mock-ups of the pack for posts and your store.
Who owns the design files?
You do. Ownership of approved artwork and source files is written into the proposal.
Can you work with our printer?
Yes. We agree the specification and send files in their format.
Do you redesign existing labels?
Yes. We keep what customers recognise and fix the layout and readability.
How long does it take?
It depends on the number of products. The proposal gives dates, and the printer’s lead time is added.
Tell us about the pack you need.
A short brief is enough: the product, the pack format, the languages and where it will be sold. We reply with questions and a fixed-scope quote.
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Got a brief?
Tell us what you are making and when it has to ship. We will take it from there.