GranTurchese

DUDE Design Bakes Tradition and Innovation into New visual Identity for GranTurchese  

Independent creative agency rebrands Italian breakfast staple as a standalone product line with a flexible visual identity linking its 

past and future.

DUDE Design has unveiled an extensive visual identity system for one of Italy’s best-loved biscuits, GranTurchese, as part of an ambitious brand repositioning.

Known for their distinctive turquoise packaging, the circular grid-patterned biscuits have been a staple of Italian breakfasts since their launch in the 1960s by Italian baked goods giant Colussi.

Spanning a new strategy, visual identity and packaging, the brand repositioning aims to establish GranTurchese as a standalone brand.

Inspired by the concepts of uniqueness and imperfection, the rebranding of the range aims to balance tradition and innovation, projecting an independent vision of the future while preserving its authentic heritage and strong connection to Italian breakfast culture. Flexibility was also key to the visual identity system, in order to accommodate the design demands of any future products.

Encompassing the entire packaging range – classic, cocoa and chocolate, wholewheat with chocolate chips and single-portion pack, the restyling of the GranTurchese packaging was driven by the goal of modernizing the product’s visual identity, making it more impactful, clear, and recognizable on shelves.

The redesign of the GranTurchese logo focuses on enhancing structure, readability, and visual impact. The lettering has been carefully refined—now more solid and balanced—to strengthen brand perception and ensure better visibility, while preserving its distinctive, handcrafted feel.

The turquoise colour, an iconic element of the brand, remains central, ensuring continuity with the past and reinforcing the immediate association with the GranTurchese world.

The new design introduces a tone-on-tone grid that echoes the texture of the biscuit, creating a strong visual connection to the product. The grid becomes one of the main graphic assets: with its imperfect rendering, it embodies the brand’s new values.

The redesign extends beyond the pack, evolving into a full visual identity system. A new graphic language has been developed to unify and characterise all brand touchpoints and communication assets.

Some films showing the technical evolution of the new visual identity are here:
Grid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK25kROk51Q
Packaging: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLoCYUgoDyw
Logo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiE6xaS4P6s