One System, Twelve Boxes

A packaging family shot flat from above — boxes, bags, sleeves, pouches — where each piece carries a different amount of the identity depending on how big it is. Six fields.

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What it hands backOne flat-lay · a whole range · identity rationed by size

A result produced by One System, Twelve Boxes — Vibary

A second, different result produced by One System, Twelve Boxes — Vibary

Input
  Brand      Vibary - sticker packs, cards, small print
  Mark       a softened play wedge, one shape, no outline
  Secondary  a faint field of easing curves, cropped large
  Pieces     large box · medium box · two small boxes · tall bag ·
             wide bag · Tyvek pouch · card sleeve · cotton bag ·
             envelope · stacked slim pair
  Ration     big: mark + name + curve field · middle: mark + name
             · small: mark alone · smallest: blind emboss

Returned   1 flat-lay · 3:2 · overhead, plain warm-white ground

big       the large box carries the full lockup with the curve
          field printed faint across its lid, cropped by the edge
middle    the tall bag takes the mark and the name set vertically
          up its side; the medium box takes mark and name only
small     the accessory boxes carry the wedge alone, centred, at
          a size that would survive a shelf
smallest  the envelope's seal is the wedge blind-embossed, no ink
          at all - the only piece with no colour on it
light     one soft source, every shadow falling the same way at
          about 45 degrees, edges diffuse
verdict   four sizes, four amounts of identity - the system has
          enough parts to fill a range without repeating itself

SKILL.mdthe whole thing, as you would paste it© vibary.ai

You fill in 6 fields — the braced lines at the top. Everything below them is fixed.

1The brand and what it sells
2The mark
3The secondary element
4The pieces, with their materials
5The colours and the type
6The ration

One System, Twelve Boxes

Produce ONE image: a packaging range photographed flat from above. Follow every line below. Replace only the FIELDS block; everything after it is fixed.

First — do you have the fields?

If any field below still has braces around it, stop and ask. Put all the questions in one short message, and show the example under each one so they can see the shape of a useful answer. Wait for the replies, then draw. Never fill a brace yourself: a value you invented is a value nobody asked for, and it will look exactly as considered as the ones they did give you.

Ask in whatever language they are writing to you in. Translate the questions and the examples; do not make someone read English to tell you what they want.

The examples are only examples. If someone answers a question, use their answer; never fall back to the example because you prefer it.

If the fields are already filled in, ignore this and carry on.

Fields — replace these six lines only

The brand and what it sells: {who this is for} e.g. Vibary — a vibe library, selling sticker packs, cards and small print
The mark: {the primary symbol} e.g. a play wedge with softened corners, drawn as one confident curve-and-angle shape, no outline
The secondary element: {a pattern, field or rule} e.g. a faint field of easing curves, printed large and cropped, used as a ground on the bigger pieces
The pieces, with their materials: {ten to thirteen, each named} e.g. a large square gift box in matte board · a medium box in soft-touch stock · two small accessory boxes · a tall paper bag with woven handles · a wide paper bag · a Tyvek pouch · a card sleeve · a drawstring cotton bag · an envelope with a wax-style seal · a stacked pair of slim boxes
The colours and the type: {two or three colours, one family} e.g. deep ink #17171A, paper #FAF9F6, indigo #5B5BD6 as the accent · one geometric sans, name set wide
The ration: {what each size carries} e.g. big pieces: mark, name and the curve field · middle: mark and name · small: mark alone · smallest: the wedge blind- embossed, no colour

The ration law

This is the rule the board lives by, and the one these sets usually break.

A real packaging system spends its identity according to how much surface it has. A gift box lid can hold a mark, a name and a pattern; a bag can hold a mark and a name running up its side; an accessory box can hold a mark and nothing else; a seal holds a single element with no colour at all.

Putting the same mark at the same size in the same position on twelve pieces is not consistency — it is repetition, and it reads as a template rather than a system. It also hides the real question, which is whether the identity has enough parts to fill a range.

So four tiers, exactly as the fields state them:

The big pieces carry the full lockup and the secondary element, printed large and cropped by the edge.
The middle pieces carry the mark and the name, and no pattern.
The small pieces carry the mark alone.
The smallest carries one element with no colour — blind embossed, debossed, or foiled in the material's own tone.

A system that cannot fill four tiers without repeating has told you it needs a secondary element, and that is worth knowing before the print order.

The photograph

Landscape, shot straight down. Every piece lies flat on a plain warm-white matte ground with no props, no surfaces, no hands.
One light, one shadow direction. Soft shadows fall the same way from every piece at roughly forty-five degrees, edges diffuse. Nothing has a second shadow.
Arrangement is staggered, not gridded: sizes alternate, rows break, and comfortable space sits between pieces. Full but never crowded, with even margins all round.
Slight, believable imperfection — a bag's handle falling naturally, a drawstring pulled to one side, a sleeve sitting a degree off square.

The materials

Every piece is the material the fields name, and the materials must look different from each other:

Matte board takes no highlight and shows its cut edges.
Soft-touch stock reads slightly darker and absorbs light.
Kraft shows its fibre and warms whatever is printed on it.
Tyvek and fabric crease; board does not.
Cotton and canvas take the print softly, with the weave visible.

Never

✕ the same mark at the same size on every piece
✕ two light sources, or shadows falling in different directions
✕ a scene, a table, a plant, a hand, a prop of any kind
✕ a strict grid, or pieces touching and overlapping
✕ gradients on flat card, glow, heavy vignette, tilt-shift
✕ text beyond the brand's own name and any line the fields give
✕ more than three colours across the whole range

The result

A page that reads as a system rather than a set of boxes: one light, one arrangement, and an identity spent in four amounts — so a viewer can see at a glance both what the brand looks like and whether it has enough of itself to go around.

The whole template, in one piece. The steps below are the entire workflow.

How to use it

Copy the whole template with the button above.
Replace the six FIELDS lines. The ration line is the one that matters — write what each size carries before you write the piece list.
Paste it into any image-capable agent or model, in one message. One run returns the flat-lay.
Read it by size. If the small pieces look like shrunken big ones, the ration was not enforced and the system has only one idea in it.

What you swap

The brand and what it sells: Vibary — a vibe library, selling sticker packs, cards and small print
The mark: a play wedge with softened corners, drawn as one confident curve-and-angle shape, no outline
The secondary element: a faint field of easing curves, printed large and cropped, used as a ground on the bigger pieces
The pieces, with their materials: a large square gift box in matte board · a medium box in soft-touch stock · two small accessory boxes · a tall paper bag with woven handles · a wide paper bag · a Tyvek pouch · a card sleeve · a drawstring cotton bag · an envelope with a wax-style seal · a stacked pair of slim boxes
The colours and the type: deep ink #17171A, paper #FAF9F6, indigo #5B5BD6 as the accent · one geometric sans, name set wide
The ration: big pieces: mark, name and the curve field · middle: mark and name · small: mark alone · smallest: the wedge blind-embossed, no colour

Before it runs

A mark simple enough to survive at thumbnail size, since a third of these pieces are small.
A secondary element — a pattern, a field, a rule. A system with only a logo runs out by the fourth box and starts repeating, which is exactly what makes these boards look cheap.
Materials you would actually specify. Naming them is what stops twelve pieces reading as one texture in different colours.

When to reach for it

When a brand needs its packaging seen as a set rather than one hero box: a proposal, a range launch, a shelf plan. It is also where you find out whether an identity has enough parts to survive being spread across twelve surfaces.

What changes

One overhead flat-lay of the whole range on a plain ground, every piece lit the same way, with soft shadows in one direction.
The identity is rationed by surface area — the big pieces carry the full lockup, the middle ones a mark and a line, the small ones a single element — which is how real systems behave and the thing these boards usually get wrong.
Materials are named per piece, so paper, board, kraft and fabric read as different things rather than as one texture recoloured.
The arrangement is staggered rather than gridded, with breathing space, so it reads as a proposal page instead of a product listing.
A range that runs out of identity by the fourth box is a finding: the mark needs a secondary element before the packaging is ordered.

One System, Twelve Boxes

First — do you have the fields?

Fields — replace these six lines only

The ration law

The photograph

The materials

Never

The result

How to use it

What you swap

Before it runs

When to reach for it

What changes

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