Designing a Chocolate Wrapper
Designing a chocolate wrapper for Anarchy Chocolate is yet another step in getting closer to the final creation of our bean to bar chocolate brand.
As far as the end consumer stands, probably the first introduction to Anarchy Chocolate will be seeing it on a shop shelf, display stand, Instagram or even a Pinterest post.
One of our main objectives of the chocolate bar wrapper design is to grab your attention when you first set your eyes on an Anarchy Chocolate bar. After all, you only get to make the first impression once!
What Makes a Great Chocolate Wrapper?
We all sat down and brain-stormed some ideas of what makes a great chocolate wrapper design. Something that stands out from the crowd.
We had our box of chocolate wrappers we collected over the last 18 months (nice research job!) and discussed what works and doesn’t work for us with their designs and materials used.
We searched online for novel ideas, essential design elements and patterns as well as colours and future trends.
We discussed what style values we wanted to portray through our chocolate wrapper. Would it be modern, minimalist, retro, heritage, quality, luxury, feminine, masculine, serious, playful, vertical or horizontal orientation, or encompass a geographical area and a whole lot more.
Anarchy Chocolate Logo
We had an Anarchy Chocolate logo created a long time ago by a friend here in Trat. We revisited the original logo design and decided to alter it a little. The colour palette from the logo would also set the president for the wrapper design to.
Once we narrowed down our ideas we made 3 or 4 basic mockups (above) using the online app Canva.
One of the main criteria that is important to us at Anarchy Chocolate, is to support local businesses and talent wherever possible. This goes hand in hand with the philosophy of anarchy whereby it is empowering people to take control of their own lives and not on having others having power over them.
As we are 9 months in to a global plandemic, this is more apparent than ever. Governments have far to much power, the people need to take it back into their hands. Anyway, enough politics, let’s get back to our bean to bar chocolate story…
So we set out to source a local design company.
As luck would have it, we were in town grabbing some liquid refreshments when we noticed a sign for a graphics company above the coffee shop we just walked out of.
With cups of tea in hand, we climbed the stairs and introduced ourselves. Several weeks later we sent them our design brief to see what they could create.
We will reveal our final chocolate wrapper design in another blog post. Subscribe for the latest news and special offers from Anarchy Chocolate.
Professional Designs
Designing a chocolate wrapper is a full-time job with a lot of elements to take into account. I haven’t even mentioned Katae had to translate from English to Thai for me or how we changed the chocolate molds during the wrapper design phase and didn’t take into account the design dimensions! Doh!
Wikanda Design in Trat (their contact information is on one of the images above) vastly improved upon our basic initial design concepts and brought fresh ideas to the table. The chocolate wrapper design we decided to move forward with was their creation with a just few alterations by us.
So now armed with a completed chocolate wrapper design for our signature 85% dark chocolate and 33% milk chocolate 80g bars, we now start the search for a reputable local printing company.
It has been said “All you need is love but a little chocolate every now and then doesn’t hurt!” It’s true!
Update and Redesign [2022]
Chocolate Wrapper to Chocolate Box
As we head into Songkran – Thai New Year, we are about to launch our new packaging designs. We have moved away from chocolate bar wrappers to boxes. We kept the vibrant red colour as it is synonymous with Trat, Thailand where we create our craft chocolate from tree to bar.
Chocolate boxes protect the product much more in transit and help us to have more quality control so our chocolate reaches its destination in perfect condition. We love our new boxes and we hope you do too.
Earlier this month we sponsored the 14 Fitz Club Annual Tennis Tournament in Pattaya and designed a limited edition label for our Cocoa Nibs to mark the occasion.
We want to hear from you if your are looking for unique branded promotional or business gifts.
Maybe your hotel would like a white label chocolate bar exclusively for your guests, or you are looking for gift ideas for your next exhibition, giveaway or promotion. Alternatively reward staff, customers and prospects with delicious branded chocolate gifts with your colours, logo and design. We would love to help you stretch your brand.
Contact us here to start a conversation.
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Designing a Chocolate Wrapper
