Can I mention my company at all?
Yes, as long as the post itself is about packaging design and you are not running a setup post where your affiliates show up recommending your company, which rule “Undisclosed partnership” forbids.
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r/PackagingDesign rules, stats, and what to post
A source-backed Rankhog guide to r/PackagingDesign: public rules, community context, posting fit, and startup-promotion risk before you publish.
- Members
- 19,286
- Community age
- Created Aug 2013, 13 years
- To post
- No minimum in the rules
- To comment
- No minimum in the rules
- Self-promotion
- Banned
- Links
- Allowed
- Promo risk
- HighFrom the rules, not from removal counts
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Rule summary
- Be civil: No harassment, hate, brigading, or doxxing.
- Undisclosed partnership: Do not make setup posts, where your company affiliates then post their company as the answer to the post. This is a waste of everyone's time, is pretty obvious to most people, and a drain on precious time.
- AI-written posts: Do not use AI to write your posts. If you are sharing advice or learnings, make sure you wrote this yourself and are in an expert position if you want to write with authority. If you are sharing personal reflections, then make sure that is clear in the post. It is fine to use spellcheck, grammar, or writing tools, but the content should come from your experience.
- Shared work must include context and include "Sharing work" flair: You must write a comment or include a description explaining any work that you post — the work’s objective/purpose, its audience, your design decisions, any issues you're running into, etc. This information allows other users to give you helpful feedback. No context? Your post will be removed. This is required when posting your work for critique, discussion, or inspiration. (Do NOT use the question, inspiration, or discussion flair tags when sharing your own work.)
- Relevancy to Packaging Design: Your posts must be relevant to the field of Packaging Design. Posts related to finding or promoting suppliers will not be allowed (r/packaging is best for this).
- No promotions outside threads: Portfolios, “hire me,” agencies, and product promos go in the weekly Services/Portfolios thread
- Jobs/Hiring: Jobs/Hiring → the monthly Jobs & Gigs thread; budgets and deliverables required
- Attribution for inspiration: Credit sources (“photo by…/link”).
- AI use & claims: If AI aided visuals, disclose and share process. If you are affiliated with the AI tool, you cannot post as this is an indirect affiliation unless you get mod approval and clearly disclose the relationship.
- No unsolicited DMs: Move to DM only after public consent
Works well
- A packaging design you made, posted with the Sharing work flair and a comment explaining the objective, the audience, your design decisions, and the problems you are wrestling with.
- A genuine critique request for a label or box design, with context on who the product is for and why you made the choices you made.
- An inspiration post crediting the original source by name or link, per rule “Attribution for inspiration”.
- Advice or learnings written entirely in your own words from real packaging experience, framed as personal reflection when that is what it is.
- A portfolio or service pitch placed in the weekly Services/Portfolios thread instead of the main feed.
Avoid
- Posting your portfolio, a hire me pitch, or a product promo outside the weekly Services/Portfolios thread, because rule “No promotions outside threads” covers exactly that.
- Sharing your own work with no description, since rule “Shared work must include context and include “Sharing work” flair” says posts without context get removed.
- Using the question, inspiration, or discussion flair on your own work, because the rules say those flairs are not for sharing what you made.
- Having affiliates answer your setup post with their own company, which rule “Undisclosed partnership” calls out as a waste of everyone’s time.
- Publishing AI-written advice or learnings, which breaks rule “AI-written posts” unless the content truly comes from your own experience.
- Posting supplier sourcing or supplier promotion threads, because rule “Relevancy to Packaging Design” redirects those to r/packaging.
What r/PackagingDesign Is For
This is a community for people who work in or care about packaging design. The description invites sharing sources of inspiration, advice, useful resources, controversial designs, and anything else related to the field. In practice that means designers showing their own work, people asking for critique, and folks passing along resources or interesting designs they found. The rules make clear this is a professional craft community, not a marketplace. Supplier sourcing and promotion are pushed over to r/packaging, portfolios and hire me pitches live in the weekly Services/Portfolios thread, and job posts belong in the monthly Jobs & Gigs thread. So the main feed stays focused on the craft itself.
Rules That Matter Before Posting
Rule “Relevancy to Packaging Design” decides if your post even belongs here, since supplier finding and supplier promotion posts are sent elsewhere. Rule “Shared work must include context and include “Sharing work” flair” decides if your own work survives, because a post with no context gets removed. Rule “No promotions outside threads” decides where anything commercial goes, and that place is the weekly Services/Portfolios thread. Rule “Undisclosed partnership” kills fake setup posts where a company plants affiliates to answer with their own product. Rule “AI-written posts” matters if you plan to share advice or learnings, because the content must come from your own experience. Rule “AI use & claims” matters if AI touched your visuals or if you are affiliated with an AI tool, since those posts need disclosure and possibly mod approval.
What To Post
The cleanest good post here is your own packaging work with the “Sharing work” flair and a real description. Write the objective, the audience, your design decisions, and any issues you are running into, because that context is exactly what unlocks useful feedback. You can also share inspiration you found, as long as you credit the source with a photo by note or a link. If you genuinely have packaging design experience, sharing advice or learnings you wrote yourself is welcome, just be clear when a post is a personal reflection. If you are a founder rather than a designer, the honest move is to ask a real question about packaging design, join the weekly Services/Portfolios thread for anything commercial, and keep your product promotion out of the main feed entirely.
What To Avoid
The most common removal here is a work post with no context, so never drop an image and walk away. Do not post promotions, portfolios, or hire me pitches on the main feed, they belong in the weekly Services/Portfolios thread. Do not post jobs outside the monthly Jobs & Gigs thread, and when you do post there include budgets and deliverables. Never use AI to write your posts, and never run a setup post where your affiliates answer with their own company. Keep every post on packaging design, because supplier sourcing and supplier promotion are not allowed. Credit your sources when you share inspiration photos or links, and do not slide into someone’s DMs without public consent first.
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Common questions about r/PackagingDesign
Where can I post my portfolio or pitch my services?
Only inside the weekly Services/Portfolios thread, per rule “No promotions outside threads”.
Can I show work I made with AI tools?
Only if AI aided the visuals and you disclose it and share your process. If you are affiliated with the AI tool, you need mod approval and clear disclosure under rule “AI use & claims”.
Can I ask this community to recommend a packaging supplier?
No. Rule “Relevancy to Packaging Design” blocks supplier sourcing and promotion posts and points those to r/packaging instead.
Can I hire a packaging designer here?
No, post it in the monthly Jobs & Gigs thread with budgets and deliverables included, per rule “Jobs/Hiring”.
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