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The Packaging Designer's Book of Patterns
László Roth and George L. Wybenga
*The Packaging Designer's Book of Patterns* is a working tool disguised as a book—an exhaustive library of die-cut templates for cartons, tubes, trays, multi-packs, corrugated shippers, and point-of-purchase displays, all drawn to scale and ready to be traced, scanned, or photocopied. Compiled by László Roth and George L. Wybenga, who both chaired the Packaging Design program at New York's Fashion Institute of Technology, it has been the field's standard structural reference for decades, growing across editions to hundreds of test-constructed, dimensionally verified patterns. This is not a book you read so much as reach for: a designer needing a folding-carton blueprint or a clever tray form starts here. For students, packaging engineers, and anyone curious about the hidden geometry of the boxes we open every day, it is both a practical workhorse and a quietly fascinating catalog of everyday structural design.
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The authors
László Roth chaired the Packaging Design program at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York; George L. Wybenga taught in the same program and succeeded him as chairperson, and has worked as an industry consultant. Their book distills decades of teaching the structural side of packaging.
The book
It is a pattern library, not a discursive text. Organized by package type—folding cartons, set-up paper boxes, corrugated containers, point-of-purchase displays—it presents hundreds of die-cut structural designs, all drawn to scale and meant to be traced, scanned, or photocopied straight into a project. Every pattern has been test-constructed to confirm its dimensions actually work, and later editions add digital files for use in Illustrator and Photoshop.
How to use it
Approach it as a reference and a starting point: find a form close to what you need and adapt it. Its value is completeness and reliability, and it has remained the go-to structural sourcebook in the field through multiple editions—an indispensable desk companion for designers and students rather than a book to read cover to cover.
For more context
It complements texts on graphic and surface packaging design and on sustainable materials.
Sources - Wiley (4th edition) - Internet Archive
- Type
- Book
- Author / Maker
- László Roth and George L. Wybenga
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons
- Place of publication
- New York
- ISBN
- None
- Shelf
- Craft & How-to
- Location
- Colorado