Essential founder Andy Rubin has developed a sleek, new state-of-the-art phone made out of titanium. The packaging system needed to accommodate the product assortment of cameras, docks, phones, cases and other accessories.

Essential is all about first impressions, so our packaging needed to instantly convey the value and quality of the product inside. Sticking to a "simple is better" mantra, we used a premium matte black, Neenah uncoated paper. To hint at the contents of the box, we used subtle black foil with a silver foil outline stroke to mimic the edge-to-edge display of the phone. The flexibility of different color outline foils allowed us to scale the alternate skus without emblazoning a full color graphic across the box. In keeping with Essential's desire to minimize the use of graphics, we stamped a small, matte silver-foil company logo discreetly on the side of the box. Inside, the detail of a black molded pulp tray pays homage to Essential's circle-within-a-square logo.