Gold Packaging Design · 2020
Nudus Snack Food
- A' Design Award 2020 Gold Winner in Packaging Design
- Awarded April 15, 2020
- CLIENT: Depot Creative
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 41,592
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About Nudus Snack Food
The packaging for start-up company shows off these healthy fruit and vegetable chips bare-naked goodness philosophy and playful humor. Their point of difference is that they are made from fruit and vegetable slices, air-dried, with nothing added whatsoever – hence the 'bare-naked' concept. Although black is a bold and unconventional choice for the healthy snack market, the agency chose this to show the product's vibrancy and give it extra shelf shout. The photography captures the product before and after air-drying illustrating the fruit is as good as nature intended.
Within the contemporary landscape of health-conscious consumer goods, this packaging design by Angela Spindler represents a sophisticated meditation on transparency, transformation, and the celebration of whole-food simplicity. The design strategy employs what might be termed "ingredient theater," positioning fresh vegetables alongside their air-dried iterations to visually narrate the minimal-processing philosophy that distinguishes the product category. The selection of a matte black substrate proves particularly astute, functioning simultaneously as a premium positioning signal and a neutral stage that allows the natural chromatic beauty of tomatoes and zucchini to achieve maximum visual impact. The typographic treatment demonstrates refined restraint, with the brand name rendered in approachable lowercase letterforms that suggest friendliness without sacrificing contemporary sophistication, while the tagline establishes product category and key differentiator with economical clarity. The compositional decision to present vegetables in their pre- and post-transformation states creates a visual argument for ingredient integrity that requires no supplementary explanation, embodying the design principle that the most effective communication often shows rather than tells. The environmental staging elevates the presentation beyond mere product documentation into the realm of lifestyle aspiration, with the carefully orchestrated color relationships between the olive and terracotta background sections creating chromatic warmth while the concrete pedestal introduces materiality that speaks to artisanal, considered production methods. The botanical shadow cast upon the colored backdrop adds a poetic dimension suggesting gardens, growth, and natural provenance without resorting to obvious pastoral imagery. One might consider how this design participates in broader visual culture conversations about food transparency, the aestheticization of healthy eating, and the contemporary consumer's desire for products that align with values of simplicity and authenticity while maintaining premium appeal.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- Strategy, brand mark and packaging livery for a new air-dried fruit and vegetable snack.
The packaging imagery depicts the fruit and vegetables as gloriously naked as they day they were picked in sunny Australia. The stacked slices, going from fresh to dried, articulates the slow-dried method and the powerful crunch. The product is picked dried and packaged. - Dimensions & Packaging
- Size: 12.5cm wide by17cm high
- Tags
- Packaging Design, Snack Packaging Design, Food Packaging, Healthy Snack Packaging, Food photography, Design Inspiration, Brand Identity, Logo Design, Food Branding
- Production Technology
- The packaging is printed on rewind, using CMYK plus two spot colours per pack. The brand mark and image are finished with a spot UV gloss while the remaining material has a matt finish.
- Design Challenge
- Production is usually the challenge and this project was no different. Managing the process and the technical constraints was hard but we got a good result.
- Project Duration
- From concept through to finished art: May 2018-December 2018
Launched in to market March 2019 - Operation Flow
- This packaging targets those who are genuinely looking to eat an unadulterated snack. The tone of voice is playful to appeal to the slight tongue in cheek nature of the brand name. Everything about the product packaging supports its clean credentials. We were determined to create packaging that was clean and simple, just like the product.
- Research
- It was important to tell the story as it is, pure and simple, to move away from the hand-drawn look & cute illustrations and instead present the product in a classical way. Our research took us to look at the art of still life and the essence of the fruit/vegetables as objects of beauty. The 'natural' side came in the simple photography, a single beautiful piece of nature just as it appears. It was important to retain the fruit/vegetable shapes, by using slices both fresh and dried. Not only that, the image gently tells the story of picked, sliced and dried in a very simple way, with nothing added.
- Inspiration
- Inspired by the still life paintings, we looked to create a range of product where the fruit and vegetables appeared just as nature had intended. The stark black background allows the photography to really jump off pack.
- Image Credits
- Photography: Andy Lewis