The boutique juice industry is crammed with players already – now you can add a new one to the list. Wild Bunch & Co produces a mouth watering range of healthy juices including vegetable juices which are bulging with energy boosting vitamins. But our favourite thing about this Singapore based company is the packaging. Smooth and ergonomic, the bottles are like little design pieces decorating your refrigerator. By Billy T
Packaging has power enormous power ó over what we buy. The fashions
we wear express who we are. Packaging does that for products. We
identify with a product because it does for us what we wish it to do.
As any brand manager will tell, we buy the ìbrand promiseî and the
package carries a lot of that promise.
You are dying to break your shampoo routine, or for some reason cannot
find your usual brand, how do you select an alternative? You generally
pick a package that appeals to you or draws your attention. And often
you do that out of necessity you don't have the chance to taste or
try most products. The package has to do the selling right there on the
spot.
Or next time you visit a country or continent for more than just a
quick trend scan, go to a grocery store or a drug store. How do you
choose a shampoo, a cereal, a tub of butter, when all of them look
unfamiliar and boringly similar?
Ask retail anthropologist Paco Underhill (author of Why we buy and Call
of the mall) and heíll likely produce studies and surveys on shelf
impact, shopping behavior and consumer psychology, all showing that it
does matter what the box looks like, even when we say it doesnít.
Brand managers will get excited about the consumer/brand relationship,
the brand story, the loyalty built over the years, and about brands act
as symbols of trust and proof of quality. They are right, of course,
and yes, our daily behavior proves that, too.
But that ís not what really interests us. Luckily for us, it is often
the quirky, the 'un-brand', the under-researched packaging design that
really startles and stands out.
Some of them may even be, or become,
huge international successes, but that is not what impresses us either.
We are looking for the genuinely original.
Packaging design that makes you take notice, gasp, think, smile, talk,
buy.
The antithesis to supermarket convenience foods,
the trend for 'slow food', hand picked produce and hand made foods
continues to grow. One of the sweetest new offerings Bee Raw Inc,
who produce a delicious range of ten regionally-sourced floral honeys.
The brand is focused on educating consumers about honey (it's nature's
sweetener, after all) which can be used for much more than just
slathering across fresh bread (our favorite). Try Bee Raw honey in your
salad dressings, to flavor meats, fish, chicken and greens. by BIlly T
Chocolate or Vanilla? Honeycomb or Hazlenut? If
you were an ice-cream, which flavor would you want to be? The British
organic ice-cream and sorbets brand Rocombe would perhaps help you to answer this question with its new outstanding recipes designed by Reach Design. "From the very beginning all we ever wanted to do was to produce
fantastic ice cream that would make you say 'Wow'", says Peter and
Suzanne Redstone, the creators of Rocombe. Very fresh, very British. Let's experiment with this personalized ice-cream. by Yvan Rodic