Award-winning Packaging Designer with 20+ years of experience creating brands and packaging that stand out on the shelf and drive sales. I combine strategic branding, structural packaging, commercial food photography, botanical illustration and high-end 3D visualization to develop product identities from concept to production-ready artwork. My background in architecture helps me balance creativity with functionality, delivering visually compelling and technically feasible solutions. I also handle food styling and art direction, high-end image retouching, and print-ready artwork preparation in collaboration with manufacturers and printing companies.

Avram Ion

Award-winning Packaging Designer with 20+ years of experience creating brands and packaging that stand out on the shelf and drive sales. I combine strategic branding, structural packaging, commercial food photography, botanical illustration and high-end 3D visualization to develop product identities from concept to production-ready artwork. My background in architecture helps me balance creativity with functionality, delivering visually compelling and technically feasible solutions. I also handle food styling and art direction, high-end image retouching, and print-ready artwork preparation in collaboration with manufacturers and printing companies.

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Award-winning Packaging Designer with 20+ years of experience creating brands and packaging that stand out on the shelf and drive sales. I combine strategic branding, structural packaging, commercial food photography, botanical illustration and high-end 3D visualization to develop product identities from concept to production-ready artwork.

My background in architecture helps me balance creativity with functionality, delivering visually compelling and technically feasible solutions. I also handle food styling and art direction, high-end image retouching, and print-ready artwork preparation in collaboration with manufacturers and printing companies.

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Language

Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
Fluent
English
Advanced

Work Experience

Independent Packaging & Brand Designer
January 1, 2004 - Present
Designing packaging and visual identities for food, beverage, cosmetics and dietary supplement brands, from initial concept to print-ready production. Key work includes packaging design for consumer products, brand identity development, structural packaging concepts and carton engineering/dielines, commercial food & beverage photography with food styling and art direction, high-end image retouching, and high-end 3D product visualization/rendering. Responsible for typography, print production and print-ready artwork preparation, plus collaboration with manufacturers and printing companies.

Education

Master of Architecture (M.Arch.) at “Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urbanism
January 1, 2019 - August 8, 2026

Qualifications

Bronze Packaging Design 2019
January 1, 2019 - August 8, 2026
Bronze Packaging Design 2020
January 1, 2020 - August 8, 2026

Industry Experience

Consumer Goods, Retail, Manufacturing, Media & Entertainment, Education