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Creative Brief
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Target Audience
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Competitive Positioning
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Package Research
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Logo Design Process
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Final Logo
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Product Logo and Flavor Identification
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Patterns and Background
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Package Design Comps
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Final Package Design
Creative Brief
Creative Considerations: The package design should position the product with higher
Company and Type of Project: Oatmeal Bakery is a young bakery that specializes in baking with oats and oatmeal. Their products include breads, pastries, bars, and cookies. The focus of this project is to create a brand identity for Oatmeal Bakery, and to design packaging for their OatCookie line. The flavors include Chocolate Pecan, Brown Sugar, Cranberry Orange,
end products, and at the same time make it stand out amongst its competitors. It should communicate what makes this brand different, and cause the customer to pick it off the shelf, just from curiosity. Shape, color, and clean, modern design are key. Hexagonal, cylindrical and tall shapes are more unusual in the cookie industry, and also create a modern look. The colors should be predominantly warm.
Cinnamon Raisin, Double Chocolate, and Maple Nut.
Perception/Tone/Personality:
Single Most Important Point/Single-Minded Message: The healthier, upscale , homemade cookie
Words that would describe the Oatmeal Bakery’s products are
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upscale, traditional, home-made, healthy, natural, delicious, comforting, sweet, chewy and innovative.
Mandatory Graphic/Copy Elements The designer will come up with the look and feel, which will be used throughout this line of products. Copy elements will be
Customer Benefits OatCookies are made with all natural ingredients, just as if they were made from scratch. No artificial flavors, preservatives, refined flour or unpronounceable ingredients. They are a good
provided to the designer, and will include weight, ingredients and nutritional information. The company logo, product name and flavor identification will have to be included in the design, and be used consistently so as to establish branding.
source of iron, magnesium, riboflavin and fiber. Following are a few quotes of what customers have to say: “I love the integration of oatmeal cookies with traditional cookie flavors.” “They taste like they came right out of my mother’s kitchen.” “They remind me of home-made cookies. When I don’t have time to bake any, I pick up OatCookies from the store. They make great presents too.”
Budget The budget for the brand identity creation is unlimited, as to enhance the creativity of the designer. The best solution will be a cost effective, yet upscale and appealing design.
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Target Audience anyone
and memories are important factors in the decision-making
who enjoys cookies and tends to make healthy choices.
process of the consumer. Oatmeal Bakery’s typical consumer
The group includes children, students, adults, mothers, families
loves the comfort of snacking and the company of friends
and the elderly - anyone from three years old up. Its majority
and family. He belongs to the middle or upper class and has
are men who are eighteen or older. These individuals eat
childhood memories of his mother serving cookies. He is health
cookies as a snack or dessert, simply as an enjoyment, or
conscious and likes variety and trying new things.
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for comfort. OatCookies can be served at parties, potlucks, catered events, or given as a present. Taste, health, comfort
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Competitive Positioning OatCookie is sold online, in department stores, grocery stores
stores, the competitors are Pepperidge Farm, Walkers, Bahlsen
such as Pavilion’s, Target and Whole Foods, as well as Oatmeal
and several health food brands. Thus, OatCookie competes
Bakery stores that are located in malls. With each of those
with high end, as well as more common products. For all those
locations, the product has different competitors. In malls,
brands, color seems to be the most important element in brand
departments stores and online, the competitors are such
identity, as that aspect is first recognizable from a distance.
stores as Harry and David’s, See’s, Dean’s and Godiva. While
Placement of the brand mark and product logo are also of
their main lines aren’t cookies, they are other options that the
great importance in brand recognition. The designs are clean
consumer could choose for gifts or comfort foods. In grocery
and use color, patterns or photographs for flavor identification.
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Package design is important, as it is a big part of the sales pitch
Rectangular, square, hexagonal and circular shapes were
to the consumer, whether it is the final decision making point
considered. While the hexagonal shape is attractive and more
or the first encounter with the product. The package design
unique, it does not fit into the hand of the consumer as well.
should position OatCookie with higher end products, and yet
The cylinder is the shape with the most comfortable feel. As
make it stand out amongst its competitors so the customer
the main target audience is male, a wider cylinder was chosen
will pick it off the shelf. The brand’s message is a high-end,
over a taller, more elegant and feminine one. For mothers, the
healthy, homemade cookie. Most cookie packages today
bigger package is also more practical as they feed entire
are rectangles or bags. Extensive research was done into
families. The final package chosen is modern, practical,
the various options for packaging the product. These ideas
cost-effective, and stands out amongst competitor products.
included bakery boxes, gift boxes, as well as tall containers.
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Logo Design Process The logo for the Oatmeal Bakery should be contemporary and
They then incorporate those icons in different shapes, banners
easily communicate “bakery� to the customer. While color will
and typographic solutions. It is important that the customer
play and important role, and will be discussed in detail later,
remember the overall brand, as they make other products
form is what is important in the initial stage. The sketches on
such as breads, muffins and pastries as well.
the left page first explore different ways of showing the oat.
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Logo Design Process The digital roughs enable further development of the initial
and thick-thin lines in its icon to give it a more natural and
sketches. After many revisions, the final identity comps display
personal feel. The middle logo was chosen as the final logo as
three different directions the brand can take to accomplish its
it says “bakery� the most, and is easily placed on almost any
objective. The left logo displays a mainly typographical solution.
background. Many hue combinations were tried for the logo.
The middle logo is in form of a seal that reminds of a traditional
The final choice was a creamy yellow contrasted with a rich
bakery. Both use a serif font to give the company a traditional
black to give the brand an appetizing and sophisticated look.
and established feel. The right logo uses a handwritten font,
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Product Logo and Flavor Identification As the Oatmeal Bakery carries several different products,
as well as the flavor identification. In these sketches, different
OatCookies need a logo to differentiate them from the other
solutions are explored of flavor identifications, product logos
product lines. This logo should work with the company logo,
and combinations thereof.
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Product Logo and Flavor Identification Three of the sketches were taken into the digital rough stage to
the product through a photographic image, and the flavor
explore them further. The first comp is a stacked, typographical
through a banner wrapped around the cookie. The decision
solution utilizing the same font as the company’s logo. The
was made to use the first, typographic solution as it works the
middle solution is also typographic, but incorporates a script
best with the company’s logo and is easiest to read.
font and a banner look. The right solution communicates
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Branding Branding consists of the logo, typography and color. This page
of this company. Third is the color scheme for the brand. It
displays all three. First is the logo with its color specifications.
combines brighter colors with a rich brown for contrast. Tints
Second is the typeface used in the company logo, as well as
and shades of these colors can be used as needed, but never
the product logo and flavor identification. It has a traditional
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yet modern feel to it, and should be used on all packaging
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Patterns and Background Following the establishment of the branding elements, many different patterns were researched.
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packages with different patterns on the top right, as well as a couple of the patterns were found online, I created the rest of
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the patterns myself. I explored different options including polka dots, several variations of stripes, diamonds, tartans as well as a patterns made from the oat of the company’s logo. Most of these patterns are in grey and white, as I wanted to see their quality as patterns themselves, not influenced by color.
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Package Design Comps color schemes, patterns, and photographic images are
the pattern options researched, different options for the front
incorporated in the examples on this page. Some comps work
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