Dona Vitamina Branding by Ruis Vargas is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Silver A' Design Award in Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design Competition Category.

SilverGraphic· 2022

Dona Vitamina Branding

by Ruis Vargas

Client: Laika

Silver A' Design Award Winner in Graphic Category

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The Design

About Dona Vitamina Branding

Dona Vitamina is a brand identity project created for an existing juice brand. The logotype shows a cross-eyed Victorian lady sipping a juice, a humorous image of a woman who owns herself. To expand that idea, a series of illustrations of women of different ethnicities was drawn in a stencil style and paired with short, amusing phrases. The illustrations appear on menus, packaging, bags, postcards, stickers and a large handmade wall. Most printed items were produced by offset printing in CMYK colors, and the bags were silkscreened.

The Recognition

About the Silver A' Design Award

Dona Vitamina Branding is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Dona Vitamina Branding is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Dona Vitamina Branding is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.

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Unique Properties: The brand's language starts to have an expanded female representation and empathic with its public. Identity materials have a more intense and diverse graphic rhythm, an expanded color palette and occupaining of the environmental design. By giving more voice to female representations, the brand strengthens its original concept: a woman who owns herself. Text and graphic representation quickly talk to the public, who shares them on social media and engages with the brand's culture.
Dimensions & Packaging: Wall, format 3.000 x 1.300 mm. Menu, sheet format 210 x 297 mm, printed on offset paper 300 g/m2., 4X4 colors (CMYK). Postals, sheet format 100 x 150 mm printed on offset paper 240 g/m2., 4X0 colors (CMYK). Bags, format 300 x 400 x 150 mm printed on silkscreen process. Packages, format 210 x 150 X 100 mm, format 150 x 150 X120 mm. Stickers, format 90 x 90 mm, format 30 x 90 mm.
Tags: Branding, Logotype, Package, label, illustration
Production Technology: Most of the graphic materials were produced in offset in CMYK-scale colors. Offset packaging is suitable for delivery. The wall was handmade by Marcelo Ruis Vargas Martinelli.
Design Challenge: The challenge was to reinvigorate the language of the Dona Vitamina brand. The brand is a timeless woman and master of her own will. Allowing the brand's voice to propagate itself in other female representations was the path for the brand to become polyphonic and collective. A series of illustrations of women interacting with elements of everyday life and nature were created, in a stencil style, to represent female polyphony. The voices are with fun phrases, translating the brand's spirit.
Research: The Laika method is based on the synergy between linguistic and pictorial skills. Every project begins with the construction of meaning, an affirmation, and the need to design small graphic narratives. Thus, the visual identity project expands upon the detailed and strategic work of building an imaginary universe that represents the culture of the Dona Vitamina brand.
Inspiration: Dona Vitamina was need to change its branding language while preserving its original essence of humor (the logotype is a cross-eyed Victorian lady sipping a juice) and the genesis of female empowerment present since the begin. A series of narratives with women was created, building other Donas Vitaminas, which contemplate different ethnicities and feminine manners. Scattered across surface design, packaging, menus and more, these women are the epitome of the brand's fun and timeless spirit.
Project Duration: The project started in January 2020 and finished in September 2020 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Operation Flow: The visual identity project contributes to empowerment the feminine nature of the Dona Vitamina brand, the owner and the majority of the staff are woman. In addition, it allows the client to feel welcomed by the casualness and informality of the brand visual language and its authentic narratives.
Patents: Laika
Team Members: Ruis Vargas, creative director and illustrator; Lorenzo Morelatto, graphic designer.
Image Credits: Photo by: Madelaine Seagram and Laika