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As good as it looks

Client:
Indigo
Services:
Packaging
Illustration
Art Direction
Packaging Guidelines

For the 2022 holiday season, Indigo, Canada’s biggest bookstore and self-proclaimed “world’s first cultural department store.” asked Weaymouth Creative to develop a beautifully festive, premium, and easy-to-implement packaging design system for all its gourmet products. With a vast network of international vendors supplying private-label confections, they needed to ensure brand consistency to tell a unified visual story across numerous products—from marshmallows to cocoa bombs, truffles and more! Available in multiple formats like tins, hang tags, boxes and more!

Indigo holiday chocolate range stacked in red and green patterned boxes, cocoa bombs, bark and truffles.

We were inspired by seasonal delights: poinsettia flowers, fresh wreaths and sweet candy canes. We illustrated a series of patterns in-house and crafted unique label designs with whimsical and decadent-looking typography to ensure our creative solution was distinct and stood out from other holiday-themed packaging on shelf. Gourmet food inspired the colour palette: berry reds, pistachio, vanilla and mint.

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Indigo hot chocolate tins with gold clamp lids, red Original Flavour and green Salted Caramel, 250 g each.

The resulting design system makes for a premium-looking product with a package so beautiful it doesn’t even need wrapping.

To ensure every product produced looks as intended — regardless of its supplier — we developed design templates and a detailed but easy-to-follow packaging directive clarifying all the guidelines of the design system for gourmet food vendors to use across the globe.