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Packaging Design

Weston Smoothie Cafe

  • 1. Brand Background

    Weston Smoothies is known for all-natural, vibrant juices blending fruits and vegetables.
    Key brand characteristics:

    • In-house customization

    • Bright, playful aesthetic (bright magenta logo, colorful repeating fruit background)

    • Vibrancy and fun are the core elements

    • Visual identity inspired by bubble teas and smoothies' natural colors

  • 1. Maintaining Brand Consistency

    Weston Smoothies' brand DNA is rooted in playfulness, vibrancy, and boldness, all tied together by an irregular, fun aesthetic. To stay true to that, the new pre-packaged design focused on several key elements:

    • Irregular Logo Shape:
      We retained the organic, imperfect outline of the Weston logo on the labels. This playful irregularity keeps the design connected to the original brand, evoking a handcrafted, authentic feel while still looking polished for retail shelves.

    • Fun Yet Clean Font Choice:
      The fonts remained bold and lively but were used carefully to ensure legibility and visual balance. Playfulness does not mean clutter — we kept the look fresh, modern, and clean.

    • Tailored Fruit Illustrations:
      Instead of using a generic fruit background, we created specific fruit patterns aligned with each juice flavor.

      • Each juice gets its own fruit motif and color palette, making the product lineup visually diverse but cohesively playful.

      • This maintains the colorful, vibrant feel customers expect while introducing better product differentiation on the shelf.

    2. What Pre-Packaged Weston Smoothies Provide That In-Store Smoothies Do Not

    The core advantage of the bottled versions is visibility, convenience, and simplicity — attributes that needed to be highlighted to compete against freshly made options.

    Addressing the Visibility Problem

    • Initial Issue: Customers weren't noticing the bottled juices; they blended into the background compared to the highly personalized bubble teas.

    • Solution:

      • We added ingredient images prominently on each bottle, giving immediate visual appeal.

      • We amplified the product names, designing them to hint at their flavor profiles and functional benefits (e.g., "Glow Up" for skin-boosting ingredients).

    Emphasizing Simplicity and Benefits

    • Organic and Simple Ingredients:
      These juices aren’t overloaded — they are pure, natural, and straightforward.

      • Clear Benefit Messaging was prioritized: Organic, No Sugar Added, All Natural.

      • Labels simplify the decision-making process: fewer ingredients, clear benefits, no guessing needed.

      • Customers should think: "This looks fun, it’s good for me, and I know exactly what’s in it."
        Quick understanding and clarity on product.

Oaties

  • The Oaties granola bars aim to energize during your three o’clock crash. Small sized for easy travel, Oaties come in different flavours: from chocolate, and raspberry to blueberry and banana. With the added joy of different dried fruits and roasted nuts, Oaties aims to give you back energy and fuel the rest of your day.

    The key words for this brand was ‘fun’ but ‘minimal’. Aimed for a wide audience our main objective was to create a design that was eye catching for both an older and younger buyer. An important feature of this brand is for the flavours to be easily identifiable through colours, helping you find them in any bag, but easily readable through a flat and minimal look.

  • How do we translate the taste and flavours while keeping it minimal? How do we keep it interesting?

    Colour is our favourite go to. But this time, it was choosing the right shade to make sure the flavours are as close to the real thing, and then some. The point was that it looked like you had already opened it, right there in you hand! We then added glossy paper to make them pop and eye catching to seal the deal.

    To keep it minimal we kept the pattern in the back simple and the same across flavours emphasizing the granola in all the bars.

Symphony Teas

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  • Symphony Teas, is an all natural brand of teas that actually taste good! With hand picked ingredients meant to help you get more energy, or relax and wind down, symphony teas can be enjoyed by anyone. From Tea connoisseurs to tea hobbyists, symphony teas’ perfect blends bring a sense of balance to the busyness of everyday. The tea label is placed both on the front and top for different display options, as well as easy legibility, while keeping the side minimal for easy ingredient reading. The front takes inspiration from plant roots, with a brown flower pattern that is elegant, and understated to bring out the logo in the middle.

  • Symphony Teas main problem was Identity. Many teas are organic, many are relaxing. So what stood out with Symphony Teas?

    They were made with a team who loves teas. They spent alot of time researching and testing different notes and flavours all while making sure they were high quality. Their goal to create a sense of harmony and tranquility without sugars and additives. This means this tea was made by a tea lover for tea lovers in particular. People who dig deep into the world of tea making and notice subtly in flavour profiles.

    The goal here was to provide a design that was refined an emphasized this sense of exploration to find harmony. For this we kept it simple with a background inspired by roots, and a illustration that highlighted the ingredients while emphasizing the key word for us : harmony.

Easy Oats

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  • Easy Oats are quick oats sold as a part of a larger brand called Easy Well. These quick oats come in large pouches for families, or individual looking to buy in bulk. Used for morning oatmeal or baking, such as cookies or granola bars, the oats are multipurpose for different cooking needs.

    The main objective is to give an example of its’ most common use, as well as allow the packaging to help market the oats easily at a distance. The blue was meant to differentiate it from brown, beige, and dark blue palette common in oatmeal packaging.

Ocean Tea

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  • Ocean Tea, is a tea line surrounding the theme of serenity and peace found in the depth of the ocean. These tea are meant to ease one into sleep with calm notes of camomile, green tea, lavender, as well as other natural ingredients. These teas are perfect for those who have trouble sleeping, or just need to wind down for the evening. This loose tea, uses illustrations of sea animals to help illustrate the idea of tranquility and peace. Animals such as turtles and whales add to the slow calm feeling that the tea aids in achieving. The colours used are jewel toned to stand out among more earth toned tea label. However, gradients were used to dissolve any harshness, as well as to mimic diffusion of the tea within water.

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