Dumbbell Nuts Flavored Cashews
A scalable, color-coded packaging system across a multi-SKU gourmet cashew line.
- Client
- Dumbbell Nuts
- Packaging
- Stand-up pouch, 250g
- Deliverables
- Brand identity · Multi-SKU dieline system · 3D rendering · Retail & lifestyle presentation
01Challenge
Gourmet snacks compete against mass-market brands leaning on food photography and niche artisanal brands that often lack shelf structure. Dumbbell Nuts needed both: an artisanal, home-made origin story and a structured, trustworthy health-snack identity.
The system also had to flex across five distinct flavor profiles (from savory pudina and black pepper to sweet chocolate and cashew laddoo) without losing brand cohesion, and to hold up at both retail-shelf distance and e-commerce thumbnail scale.
02Strategy
The pack splits horizontally into two zones: an illustrative base telling an origin story, and a functional upper zone for branding, flavor ID, and ingredient callouts.
Hand-drawn illustrations of cashew harvesters against an idyllic landscape establish hand-crafted quality; bold typography and clean color-blocking up top anchor the brand in a modern wellness context.
03Design
Typography
An arched-ribbon logotype, uppercase sans flavor designations, and an expressive brush script for “CASHEW” give the range a market-stall energy without losing structure.
Color architecture
Each flavor gets its own coding: leaf green for pudina, soft pink for chilli-flakes, muted taupe for chocolate, slate grey for black pepper, crisp teal for white plain crunchy.
Imagery
A continuous harvester landscape unifies the range across every SKU, while floating ingredient overlays at the top seal instantly signal flavor.
Regulatory layout
A structured back-panel grid holds an ingredient benefit diagram, standardized Nutrition Facts, FSSAI licensing, and barcode placement.
Renders & mockups
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04Production
The lineup runs on a modular visual matrix (top seal flavor graphic, branding zone, color-coded flavor banner, brush-script product name, and illustrative base) so every new SKU can slot in while keeping full brand recognition.
Technical specs
- Pouch dimensions: 160mm total width (145mm printable body) × 230mm total height
- 45mm bottom gusset for shelf stability
- 13mm resealable zipper closure, 25mm below the top edge
- 7.5mm side seals, 19mm top cut area
- Barcodes and batch codes locked to flat, non-flexing zones above the gusset
Dieline & production artwork
05Ecommerce
How the pack was designed to work on screen as well as on shelf.
Retail shelf
Contrasting flavor banners create horizontal bands across multi-pack displays, pulling the eye across the whole range at once.
E-commerce
The clean vertical hierarchy and oversized brush typography keep “CASHEW” readable even at mobile thumbnail size.
06Result
A repeatable visual system (not just an attractive layout) let Dumbbell Nuts bridge home-made authenticity with commercial shelf performance, and gives the brand a flexible base for future SKUs.
07Why this packaging works
- Shelf recognition
- Contrasting flavor banners create horizontal bands across multi-pack displays, pulling the eye across the whole range at once.
- Information hierarchy
- The pack splits into a functional upper zone (brand, flavor ID, ingredient callouts) and an illustrative base that tells the origin story.
- Differentiation
- It sits between mass-market food photography and unstructured artisanal packs: hand-drawn craft with a modern, structured layout.
- Ecommerce & thumbnail
- A clean vertical hierarchy and oversized brush typography keep “CASHEW” readable at mobile thumbnail size.
- SKU scalability
- Each flavor gets its own color coding inside a fixed matrix: top-seal graphic, branding zone, flavor banner, product name, illustrated base.
- Production
- 160 × 230mm pouch, 45mm bottom gusset, 13mm zipper 25mm below the top, and barcodes locked to flat, non-flexing zones.
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