MS-ink | Retail packaging, from concept to completion.

About Us

We offer a broad range of integrated services, from brand design to multiple-SKU line roll outs, China or US-based photography, color management, and many other services to simplify and streamline your work.

• Seamless integration of the entire packaging process, from concept to completion
• Design to delivery with one management team on multiple continents
• Consistent execution of brand standards
• High quality at affordable prices
• Greater speed to market

Our offices are located in Chicago IL, Bentonville AR, and Dongguan, China. Whether your products are made in the US, or in Asia, our team is right around the corner, ready to service your needs. Collectively, our team has decades of brand packaging and print experience, through major retailers in the US, and printers and manufacturers both in the US and China.

BRAND CREATION

GRAPHIC ADAPTATION

STRUCTURAL DESIGN

PHOTOGRAPHY

In a nutshell,
BRAND CREATION

• Creating attractive, current brands that American consumers love
• Understanding what consumers want and expect, and anticipating their future needs
• Building style guide with clear cut rules to extend a brand across hundreds of items, package types and categories
• Creating designs that with a consistent communication hierarchy - through language, color, and graphics
• Building art that not only looks good, but is easy for printers to grasp and easily manufacture with consistency

Our Chicago-based design team has developed hundreds of brands that have been a part of everyone's lives for years.
The Chicago team also works hand-in-hand with the Bentonville-based structure team to create a seamless feeling
across the brand from graphics to structure. The team not only designs, but thoroughly researches and analyzes
each project, to provide designs that are memorable and impactful.

Our creative team can create a new brand, or refresh an existing one.
GRAPHIC ADAPTATION

• Where the rubber hits the road
• Fast and accurate line extension done in China
• Can be done in China or in the US

The China-based half of our design team is specialized
in line extension. We can digest large scale projects,
with many thousands of SKUs within tight deadlines.
Our China design center is fully equipped, on line
24 hours a day, and ready to roll. We can work with
your existing process, or help to tailor one that works
with your existing team and workflow.

Line extention and roll-outs

You can sit back and relax and let our team sweat the details...
And with our 24 hour-a-day operation, all kinds of stuff gets cranked out while you sleep.

We also utilize an excellent online proofing system that our clients love.No huge attachments clogging your email;
our system is fast and efficient. We can create a customized intake for you, or your suppliers. We can collect data
and dielines from your China- or US-based factories in real time.
PHOTOGRAPHY

• We have large, fully equipped studios in both Chicago and Dongguan, China
• Teams of photographers and retouchers for fast processing of photos
• Commenting and approvals of photography via our convenient online system
• Full prop libraries
• Clipping path services

Our Chicago-based photo studio has decades of experience working with famous US brands you see every day.
Models, food shots, and elaborate product shots are all available. Our China-based studio offers speed and convenience
- no need to ship samples to the US! Shoot them right in China, saving weeks and thousands of dollars.
In house retouching, clipping paths, archiving - the cost and time savings from shooting in China can be enormous.
Structural Design

Package engineering is an important step in the process. Packaging structure can be as important as the
graphics in some cases. Engineering is handled in our Arkansas design center. MS-ink has state of the art
CAD, CNC, and digital 3D modeling technology.We produce production quality packaging prototypes
reducing your overall development cost and lead-time. Meeting the most challenging demands,
we provide an array of technical resources and creative expertise:
• Packaging and POP display engineering team
• Model making
• Prototyping
• 3D CAD model development
• Vacuum forming, molding & fabrication

Contact Us

North America

Greg St Laurent

gstlaurent@ms-ink.com

Phone: +1 708 240 4264

Asia

Christopher Corriden

ccorriden@ms-ink.com

Phone (China): +86 139-0296-1994

Retail packaging, from concept to completion.

Built from the ground up specifically to meet the needs of today's packaging and private brand professionals.

About Us

You can sit back and relax and let our team sweat the details... And with our 24 hour-a-day operation, all kinds of stuff gets cranked out while you sleep.

• Packaging and POP display engineering team• Model making• Prototyping• 3D CAD model development• Vacuum forming, molding & fabrication

Contact Us

You can sit back and relax and let our team sweat the details...
And with our 24 hour-a-day operation, all kinds of stuff gets cranked out while you sleep.

• Packaging and POP display engineering team
• Model making
• Prototyping
• 3D CAD model development
• Vacuum forming, molding & fabrication