ABOUT DESIGN WARLORD
Get Next-gen mockups and premium packaging templates.
We started working in the packaging design industry in 2015 and since then we have been working on a variety of products with 100+ clients from all over the world (but mostly from the USA) through 99Designs platform. In 2017 we started creating and selling packaging mockups on Creative Market under the brand name Crafted Mockups which was sort of an alpha version of what we're doing here. Crafted Mockups did well for what it was and we surely learned a lot about packaging design, product rendering & mockup creation since then.
In 2024, we launched Design Warlord to share with the world our refined expertise in packaging design and give everyone access to our exceptional mockups and templates.
For each mockup, we meticulously create a detailed replica in 3D with the exact dimensions and proportions of the physical product, which we texture and render using a hyper-realistic rendering techniques, then we assemble many layers into a single .PSD file which you can easily edit on Adobe Photoshop® and customize to your needs. The result will be a photorealistic image that looks like a professionally taken photo of a product in a studio environment.
For packaging templates, we use the industry-standard Adobe Illustrator® to create the artwork. We have worked on many products in different industries which helped us develop a good knowledge about how packaging artworks are made. It can be challenging to figure out the layout, the content and the right size for a packaging or label, that's where we step in to offer you templates that you can use to build your packaging artworks.
We've been active on 99Designs since 2015, Creative Market since 2016 and Envato Elements since 2019
Proven on Leading Design Platforms
+100
Clients
The number of people who worked with us
on 1-to-1 projects through 99Designs
+4200
Customers
The number of people who bought
our products on Creative Market
+100,000
Downloads
The number of times people downloaded
our products on Envato Elements.
A BIT OF A STORY
(Founder's Story)
(Founder's Story)
Early Years
I grew up during the 1990s in a remote town in the middle of a desert! We didn't have much but I was fortunate enough to have a Nintendo 64 and later on a PlayStation One to play the fifth-generation video games like the legendary Final Fantasy 7 & GoldenEye 007. These early 3D games captured my interest for 3D graphics, programming and IT since childhood.
Academic and artistic background
In my teens, I developed good drawing skills, started learning graphics and IT and was considered a geek before that was a thing. I graduated high school with top grades in mathematics. I wanted to go for an art degree but to my dismay, I was confronted with the cliché line "Artists end up starving most of their lives", so I ended up forced to pursue an engineering career.
I obtained a bachelor degree in applied mathematics & computer science (Faculty of Sciences & Technologies, Marrakesh, MA), then I enrolled in a Master of computer science applied to business management from which I dropped out because I was into 3D & graphics that I was self-learning in parallel with my studies which were mostly about math & coding.
my 2010s
I spent my 2010s like most millennials out there: graduating and entering the workforce right after the Great Recession of 2008. It was a difficult time. I tried working as an app/web developer for a tech company, but that wasn't my cup of tea. Then I became a 3D design teacher in local design schools, but that also didn't last. Ultimately, I found myself preferring to work online from home.
In my early professional career, I was freelancing in full-stack web development AND 3D/packaging design. As the years went by, I had to choose one of those fields and drop the other to avoid the "Jack of all trades, master of none" situation, so in 2018 I dropped coding to focus on 3D rendering & packaging design.
2020 Crossroad
By 2020, with 5 years of packaging design experience under my belt, I hit a crossroads. Amidst the global uncertainty and lockdowns of the Covid-19 pandemic, I found myself asking: 'What's next?'. I took a hard look at my past projects and mockups, evaluating them from a client's perspective and benchmarking them against what other designers were offering. I realized that while my work was good, there was definitely room for improvement. That realization pushed me to double down and begin working on a major version 2.0 upgrade.
2024 & Beyond
After almost 4 years of re-inventing my design processes, Design Warlord was born. The high quality of the products/services this brand offers came to be after many years of hardship and a slow grind towards perfecting my craft which is the embodiment of my passion rather than just something I do for living. I believe that by following my passion, I can add value to the market by helping other designers and businesses with their journey in creating better and meaningful products that in their own turn add value to the market and make the world a better place.
A CAUSE WORTH SUPPORTING
2%
Of All Profits Are Donated
To The International Bipolar Foundation.
Before creating Design Warlord website, I used and still use Digital Online Marketplaces such as Creative Market and Envato Elements to sell my products. I'm happy to sell on those platforms and give them a slice of the sales, but I thought that if I manage to sell my products directly through my own website where I cut the marketplaces, it is only fair to donate a percentage of the profits to support a cause that I believe in. I'm personally living with bipolar disorder and during a past manic episode I discovered The International Bipolar Foundation website which helped me a lot by providing valuable information that made me understand that I was not alone. Years later, after I figured out my condition and learned how to manage it, I thought that it would be a good idea to donate a percentage of the profits to this foundation to contribute towards spreading awareness and providing help for other people who are living with bipolar disorder. ~Adam