Kāpiti

Design: Unified Brands
Location: New Zealand
Project Type: Produced
Client: Fonterra
Product Launch Location: New Zealand
Packaging Contents: Cheese
Packaging Substrate / Materials: Plastic Wrap
Printing Process: Digital Printing

Kāpiti, a brand that sets the bar for cheese – proudly holding the title for New Zealand’s most awarded cheese company.

With such a distinguished pedigree, we set out crafting a new look for their range which felt proud, distinctive and lived up to the brand’s premium reputation.

Transforming the entire range to take on a dramatic black backdrop felt like a bold but necessary move. We wanted the range to not only come together, but make a statement. Kāpiti isn’t shy of big, bold flavours, and its packaging needed to follow with the same confidence.

Naturally, we drew inspiration from Kāpiti Island. With its rugged landscape and wilderness, the island became our dramatic muse. Hand illustrated patterns tell the story of the coast and terrain, symbolising the rich taste profiles of each of the cheeses, and a bold crop of the island’s silhouette creates a distinctly ownable shape running across each of the cheeses.

Typographically, we saw typeface as another opportunity to speak to the brand’s rich story of New Zealand excellence; through new pronounced letter spacing and angular motifs, all building on the beauty of the brand’s Te Reo naming of its cheese.