Branding and Packaging: Chow

Boutique design agency Studio h was recently commissioned to develop the visual identity and packaging for UK based snack food brand Chow and its first three products, Mini Chorizo, Beef Biltong and Queen Green Olives. Based around a non-format, cut and paste, mixed typographical approach and stamp texture, the design solution establishes a confident, quirky and playful brand personality while capturing the handcrafted quality and unexpected flavours of the product.

The combination of serif and sans serif, stencil cut and geometric detail mixes the contemporary with the traditional and an underlying sense of commodity that makes the packaging distinctive and expressive with very few elements. Its bright but rich colour palette neatly avoids the child-like or synthetic and works very well with the weight of the letterforms and clear surrounding space.

Thank you to Nicky Hall from Studio H for supplying the images.

Richard Baird Richard is a British freelance designer and writer who specialises in the development of logos, branding and packaging. He has written for Brand New and Design Week, is an editor for The Dieline, has featured in Computer Arts magazine and also runs the resource Design Survival. Follow:     |     Twitter     |     Facebook     |     Portfolio     |     Contact