Soap Packaging Designer

Upwork Job Post — FightSuds Packaging Designer Title: Packaging Designer Needed — 3 Premium Combat-Athlete Soap Boxes Using Existing Brand System Project Overview FightSuds is a premium soap brand built specifically for combat athletes, including BJJ, MMA, wrestling, boxing, Muay Thai and other high-contact sports. We have already completed our core branding and our first retail package, Tiger Blood. We are now looking for an experienced packaging designer to develop the next three soap boxes: 1. Dragon Breath 2. Alpha Bar 3. The Purist This is not a branding or logo-development project. The FightSuds identity is established. We have locked brand assets, colours, typography direction, packaging dimensions and an existing Tiger Blood package that establishes the quality and overall brand architecture. We want a designer who can work creatively inside an established brand system while giving each product its own distinct personality. Assets We Will Provide The selected designer will receive: Locked FightSuds master logo files Locked FightSuds tiger/claw graphic FightSuds brand guidelines / Fight Book Approved brand colours and typography direction Current Tiger Blood packaging artwork Existing packaging dieline Product names and scent profiles Required ingredients, directions, warnings and regulatory information Product-specific creative direction Do not redraw, reinterpret, stretch or modify the supplied FightSuds logo or locked brand assets. Tiger Blood — Existing Benchmark Our Tiger Blood box is approximately 99% complete and should be treated as the benchmark for the overall FightSuds packaging family. We are not looking for a redesign of Tiger Blood. However, we're open to seeing one optional refinement/concept if the designer sees a genuinely strong opportunity to improve it while keeping the existing direction, branding and assets intact. Tiger Blood should primarily be used to understand: Brand hierarchy Overall premium/aggressive feel Logo placement and treatment Information architecture Packaging structure Level of visual detail How an individual SKU can have its own personality while remaining FightSuds Do not simply recolour Tiger Blood to create the other products. Creative Direction All four products should clearly belong to the same FightSuds family, but each SKU should have its own visual world. DRAGON BREATH Current direction: Deep green / cream-white / black / FightSuds gold Dragon-scale texture replacing Tiger Blood's fur texture Dragon face/watermark on the back, similar in concept to how the tiger is used Cold, fresh, aggressive personality Menthol / peppermint / eucalyptus character We are open to strong creative ideas within this direction ALPHA BAR Current direction: Black / charcoal / FightSuds gold Dark, premium, masculine presentation Sweet tobacco + leather scent character Activated charcoal / tea tree / eucalyptus Potential visual territories include smoke, charcoal, leather, concrete or similarly dark textural treatments Should feel premium and powerful without becoming cliché “alpha male,” tactical or military branding THE PURIST Current direction: Cleaner, lighter visual world Off-white / cream / stone / subtle green or natural tones while retaining the FightSuds master identity Tea tree-focused Minimal, straightforward and clean Possible textures include stone, marble, mineral or restrained organic patterns Should still look like FightSuds—not a spa or generic handmade natural soap Brand Personality FightSuds should feel: Tough, not tactical. Premium, not luxury. Funny, not gimmicky. Aggressive, not hostile. Athletic, not generic fitness. The brand comes from authentic combat-sport culture. We want packaging that looks at home beside gloves, wraps, gis and fight gear—not something that looks like generic craft soap. Packaging Current finished carton dimensions: 80 × 30 × 80 mm The same physical carton/dieline will be used across all four SKUs. The boxes will be professionally printed, die-cut, folded and glued, so production accuracy is important. Designs must account for: Front hierarchy Product description Ingredient declaration Directions Warning/caution information UPC/barcode area Batch-number area Net weight Required regulatory information Print readability at actual physical size Dark artwork must remain visible when physically printed—not just on a bright computer monitor. Important Brand Rule We want creativity around the individual products. We do not want creativity applied to the locked master brand assets. Be creative with the product. Be disciplined with the brand. If a concept only works by changing the FightSuds logo, wordmark, claw or core brand identity, change the concept—not the brand. Deliverables For each of the three new boxes: Initial creative concepts Agreed revision rounds Final approved packaging design Print-ready CMYK PDF Editable Adobe Illustrator/source files Proper bleed, safe areas and dieline setup Fonts outlined or packaged Linked artwork included High-resolution PNG/JPG presentation files 3D box mockups We need full editable production files at project completion, not just flattened PDFs/JPGs. What We're Looking For We're specifically looking for someone with strong experience in: Retail packaging Folding cartons Consumer products Men's/athletic/performance brands Strong typography Print production Building multiple SKUs within an established brand system Experience designing soap/cosmetic/personal-care packaging is an advantage. When Applying Please include: 1. Three examples of your strongest packaging projects. 2. At least one example showing multiple products/SKUs designed within the same brand family. 3. Confirmation that you work in Adobe Illustrator and can supply fully editable production artwork. 4. Your proposed price for all three boxes. 5. Estimated turnaround time for initial concepts and final completion. Please do not submit generic logo portfolios. We're selecting primarily on packaging design and the ability to follow an established brand system.