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Riceman

Branding Services / Packaging design

industry

Food, Grains

client

Ibari group

year

2019

awards

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2020

overview

A small distributor, whose main clients are health food stores, has contacted us to create a brand identity and packaging for two types of rice.

challenge

As one of the most ancient cereal grains and one of the highest consumed ingredients around the world, Rice has been a staple component in our diets for centuries! Given that we are very much used to having this ingredient in our daily life, we tend to forget that the process in which this grain goes through until it gets on our plates is an interesting and specifically intricate one. Our goal was to evoke the interesting and inspiring process of rice growing by paying tribute to the anonymous humans in charge of the hard work in the rice fields.

solution

Visually, the design on the container should be uncomplicated and minimal in order to perfectly represent this simple and familiar grain, and at the same time remind us of the human labour in the rice harvesting process. Our packaging needed to convey an emotional, human message but be functional at the same time.

So the goal was to use the bare minimum and only necessary amount of black graphic lines in order to capture, in the most minimal way possible, the facial expressions of the rice farmers. Portraying the diverse emotional states a person goes through, the graphics go from self-confidence and pride, to satisfaction, empathy and tiredness. From the merchandise perspective, when displayed next to one another on a shelf, the products would be covering the wide spectrum of human feelings, as if those farmers were having an expressive conversational scene with one another. Regarding the functional aspect, we opted for 2 different sizes of bag, which simply indicate the type of rice it contains: the small bag for short-grain and the tall one for the long-grain. As for the material, we went for the sustainable option with the use of a high density sackcloth fabric to contain the rice, and a carton lid in the form of the Asian farmer’s traditional conic hat. To make things easy for the consumer, we marked on the inner side of the cone hat the rice cup measurements. Continuing with our tribute to the human involvement behind the rice product, we have chosen the name RICEMAN as a way to immortalise his identity on our brand. As for the graphics and visual writing style, we selected an Asian calligraphy for our logotype to emphasise the regional origin of this grain.

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To make things easy for the consumer, we marked on the inner side of the cone hat the rice cup measurements.

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When displayed next to one another on a shelf, the products would be covering the wide spectrum of human feelings, as if those farmers were having an expressive conversational scene with one another.

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