Askinoise Chocolate ”We begin the process by finding farmers that we already have some contact with. In other words, we are introduced to the farmers by a mutual acquaintance. We find farmers first, because farmers are more important to us than beans. Sure, we want high quality rare beans, more importantly though, we farmers that we can work with on issues that are important to us.”
Marou Faiseurs de Chocolat, based in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), was founded less than a year ago by two adventurous Frenchmen. Rice Creative got the mission to build the brand’s visual identity and packaging. ”Inspired by Marou’s unique story, we sought to develop an identity and packaging system with the right mixture of modernity and tradition. After much deliberation, we found the simplest way to create a system for the bars was to name each bar after the province where it’s beans originated, and ascribe a natural colour-shift. To highlight the hand-made, artisanal quality of the chocolate itself, we commissioned a local printing shop to use the traditional silk-screen printing techniques to hand print the design in antique gold ink on each wrapper. The finished packaging is then given to Marou who then hand wrap the chocolate bars.” Via Packaging World
Designed by Studio Alto. ”San Churro’s Real Chocolate is a product range developed in reaction to a chocolate market flooded with inferior ‘confectionary’ chocolate. Real couverture chocolate is made from 100% pure cocoa butter, nothing less and only couverture chocolate can truly be labelled the real deal.
The design response was to create something artisan, hand crafted and most importantly, real, to reflect the product itself. The result being a range of products each with its own individual type execution and colourway printed on 100% recycled card.”
La Molina is a creative chocolate producer in Tuscany, Italy. This is one of their tasty products, where the woman is shaped in the chocolate as well as integrated in the graphic design on the package. Check out their web site for more beautiful products.
Happy F&B designed a package collection for Eguale ”Tropical birds bearing tropical raw materials: every package tells a little story of its own about the product, the bird, and their origins. Take, for example, the Bolivian umbrella bird with a cocoa bean in its beak, or the Chinese velvet-fronted nuthatch carrying a raspberry. These are organic, fair trade products with a focus on premium quality.”
Fairtrade Labelling Organizations (FLO) is a group of 24 organizations working to secure a better deal for producers. Eguale ecological chocolate is produced by Sackeus and was first in Sweden to produce fairtrade chocolate.
Developed in collaboration with Commune Design and handmade by Valerie Confections. The packaging, a simple cardboard box, grew from the idea of the chocolates as actual tiles. Fortuitously, the box selected holds 49 pieces of the chocolate, the result of squaring a prime number, 7. It seemed fitting, as the collaboration is the result of the combined efforts and imagination of two unique, and uniquely Angeleno, companies. Via Dexigner
