When considering increasing your brand’s visibility, you should consider the entire product category in which the product competes for customer attention. With the wide range of different retailer plan-o-grams and channels of distribution, the ability to design strong shelf presence can be daunting because the competition’s adjacent brand package designs can vary significantly. To effectively ensure your brand wins the visibility game, careful attention to evaluating each design in the retailers’ individual shelf set is critical. What may work for one retailer’s shelves may not work for another, especially if your brand represents a small category that tends to be placed as infill within major categories. Creating mock shelf sets – either as retouched images or as physical sets developed in the client’s offices – provides a great tool to evaluate which designs meet the visibility criteria. For most of our major projects we also recommend going to our client’s largest customers to review the packaging design as part of a real shelf setting. When we redesigned the Shoppers Drug Mart’s Life Brand, we visited the client’s mock store to review each packaging concept to ensure the designs truly stood out