Art Direction · Campaign Thinking

CampaignsEvery brief is a question. Every campaign is a point of view. Three advertising campaigns — across motion, retail, and packaging — built on consumer insight, not aesthetic preference.

I believe design that moves product isn't different from design that moves people — it's the same instinct applied to different contexts. The campaigns here started with a human truth and worked backwards to the visual form that best carries it.

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Campaigns
11K+
Orders Generated
8K
Units/Month
Floor Throughput
01
Campaign · Motion · Q-Commerce
30 SAM
Second Almond Milk
CASE_STUDY_04 // CATEGORY: FMCG_MARKETING_SYSTEMS
TL;DR
Brief: Break consumer illusion about what's inside their carton.
Idea: Weaponize transparency — make the 30-second paste replace an 8-hour ritual on screen.
The Brand
Jus'Amazin — 100% Almond Milk Paste (Sachet Format)
The Brief
Break into the dairy-free milk alternative category on quick-commerce platforms where decisions happen in under 3 seconds. Expose the 1–4% almond content hidden inside mass-market carton brands and position Jus'Amazin's pure paste sachet as the radical, transparent alternative.
The Consumer Insight
Most people buying almond milk from a carton don't know what's actually inside. They trust it because the packaging says "almond." The reality is that most mass-market cartons contain 1–4% actual almond — the rest is emulsifiers, thickeners, and stabilizers. That gap between what people believe and what they're actually buying is where the whole campaign lived.
The Concept
Don't hide it, show it. Instead of building prettier packaging, the idea was to make the ingredient comparison unavoidable. Two films, two angles: one that puts our paste against a competitor's carton side by side for 30 seconds — no voiceover, just the visual doing the work. And a second, quieter film that lets typewriter click-clacks and plain text do the talking. The kind of quiet confidence that premium consumers respond to.
Strategy — 6 Pillars
01
[THE_TRANSPARENCY_TRAP]
The Collective Illusion
Most people pick up almond milk because they trust the label. What they don't know — because there's no reason they would — is that the carton in their fridge is mostly water, emulsifiers, and thickeners. Maybe 2% almond, if that. The whole campaign started from asking: what if consumers could actually see that? What if we made the gap between the claim and the contents impossible to ignore?
02
[DISAPPEARING_ACTS]
Creative Disruption
The shift we needed to make was this: homemade almond milk is great, but nobody has time to soak, peel, blend, and strain on a Tuesday morning. The sachet collapses all of that into 30 seconds. The creative job was just to make that trade feel obvious — almost embarrassingly obvious. Show the 8-hour ritual disappearing. Let the convenience prove itself on screen.
03
[THE_7_DAY_BLAST]
High-Velocity Conversion
The 30-second film was built for quick commerce. At that scroll speed, you have maybe 3 seconds before someone keeps moving. We put the comparison right at the top — carton ingredients vs. what's in our sachet — and let the contrast do the selling. No spokesperson. No music. Just the visual argument, straight. The first 3-day run was enough to show it was working.
04
[NOSTALGIC_DISRUPTIONS]
The Silent Attack
The second film was for a different kind of person. Someone who finds the loud D2C energy exhausting and trusts brands that don't shout at them. It's all type — vintage typewriter style, clicking through the ingredient facts one by one. No voiceover, just the sound of keys and the text appearing. The kind of ad that feels more like a document than an advertisement. Which is exactly why it worked for the audience it was targeting.
05
[CHROMATIC_RETAINING]
The Royal Pivot
Once the campaign proved the concept, the package needed to match it. The original sachet design was fine — but "fine" loses on shelf. We went through a few rounds of testing before landing on the Royal Purple. It sounds like an odd call for a health product, but that's exactly what made it work. It stopped people. Purple doesn't exist in that category. Once they tried it and liked it, the color became the recall cue. That's how you build retention — not through messaging, but through recognition.
06
[STRATEGIC_SCALE]
Commercial Retrospective
The transparency argument worked. The numbers came in, and leadership confirmed it — new customers coming in specifically because of the ingredient comparison, orders scaling over the following month, and the rebrand giving the whole category a reason to exist. That's what happens when the creative is honest about the product instead of decorating it.
Where everything started…
— The Iteration Lab · Concept Runway
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Packaging Trial & Error
Rough packaging mockups, color matching errors, and typography misalignment from the early trial-and-error phases before settling on the definitive Royal Purple canvas.
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Consumer Interaction Diagrams
Behavioral diagrams mapping out consumer interaction patterns — detailing how users store, carry, tear, and mix the paste-based sachet into daily routines.
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Final Royal Purple Sachet
High-fidelity 3D studio render of the final Royal Purple sachet, highlighting the extreme legibility of minimalist typography floating on the deep purple canvas.
My View On This
The commercial market hides its shortcuts inside thick, opaque cardboard cartons. To win the consumer's trust, we didn't just build a prettier package; we weaponized transparency. By stripping away retail clutter and wrapping our product in a striking Royal Purple statement, we made user inconvenience disappear. Design at this scale isn't about matching the category — it's about creating an uncompromised visual truth that forces the market to answer for its ingredients.
Execution — Across Touchpoints
01
Q-Commerce PDP
30-Sec Comparison Film
Art Direction Note
Split-screen tension at 1:1 aspect ratio — the left side compresses 8 hours of traditional overnight process into 10 seconds, the right shows the paste dissolving in real time. No voiceover needed. The visual does the persuasion.
Channels
Blinkit PDP · Zepto Product Carousel · Amazon A+ Content
02
Social / Paid
30-Sec Kinetic Typography
Art Direction Note
Built for sound-off vertical scrolling. Kinetic typewriter animation — vintage click-clack audio disruption delivering proof points: "100% Almonds", "No Emulsifiers" — in the first 3 seconds. Type is the visual idea here, not decoration.
Channels
Instagram Stories · Reels · Meta Paid Acquisition
03
Brand / YouTube
Full Campaign Launch Film
Art Direction Note
Long-form brand film combining macro ingredient photography with lifestyle integration. Positions "30-Second Almond Milk" as a clean, sustainable dietary upgrade — not a convenience hack.
Channels
YouTube Pre-Roll · Brand Website · Amazon Storefront
Campaign Funnel Comparison Matrix
Funnel Vector30-Sec Comparison Film30-Sec Kinetic TypographyFull Campaign Launch Film
Campaign Asset TypeVisual Breakdown TacticSilent Attack TacticLong-Form Brand Film
Active Run Duration7 Days — High-intensity cross-platform run7 Days — Targeted minimal niche positioningOngoing — Brand & storefront placement
Top-Funnel Reach15K–20K Impressions15K–20K+ Audience ReachFull-funnel brand building
Mid-Funnel Conversions6,000+ Active Conversions3,000–4,000+ Targeted Reach OutsTrust layer for retention
Bottom-Funnel Orders11,000+ Orders (30–45 Day Window)2,000–3,000+ Settled Product OrdersCategory entry for new audiences
Primary Consumer ReactionImmediate visual shock & brand switchingSophisticated curiosity & steady onboardingTrust-building for health-conscious families
Performance Dashboard
TOP FUNNEL
20K
Max impressions captured during the initial 3-day high-velocity platform burst.
MID FUNNEL
6,000+
Verified user conversions driven by the transparency visualization asset.
BOTTOM FUNNEL
11,000+
Cumulative sachet orders scaled over a 45-day attribution cycle.
RETENTION LOOP
LOYALTY↑
Long-term retention index established via post-visual rehaul brand standard.
Feedback Matrix — Segmented Personas
Leadership
This comparison format completely simplified our category education. It has elevated our overall content standards, significantly boosted our brand image, and funneled entirely new customer segments straight into our 32nd almond milk category.
Jitin Munjal
CEO & Co-Founder, Jus'Amazin
Leadership
The transparency visualization worked beautifully. It gave our consumers a clear, unmistakable reason to look for our house-made sachet over common cartons, and the conversion numbers speak directly to how well that narrative connected.
Shilpa Moglishetty
CEO & Co-Founder, Jus'Amazin
What I'd Do Differently
If I were to extend this, I'd develop an OOH version — a single visual of the paste jar next to a clock showing "8 Hours vs. 30 Seconds." The idea is strong enough to work on a billboard at 60kmph. The comparison campaign proved the concept; the next step is scaling the transparency argument beyond digital into physical retail presence.
02
Campaign · Packaging · Retail
Desi Energy Bar
Structured Chaos
CASE_STUDY_02 // CATEGORY: RETAIL_PACKAGING_SYSTEMS
TL;DR
Brief: Make health food feel Indian, not imported.
Idea: Structured Chaos — nostalgia as an asset, colour as a long-range weapon.
The Brand
Jus'Amazin — Desi Energy Bar Range
The Brief
Launch a new energy bar into a saturated health snacking category dominated by clinical, Western-aesthetic brands. Stand out on shelf, create an emotional connection with Indian consumers across generations — from children to elderly — and reposition a traditional chikki as a culturally grounded daily ritual rather than a generic health product.
The Consumer Insight
Go to any health snack aisle and everything looks like it belongs in a gym. Clean sans-serif, white space, green accents — it all says the same thing. That aesthetic is borrowed from Western markets, and a lot of Indian consumers don't see themselves in it. This product had the actual cultural story to tell — it's a chikki, which is exactly what every Indian kid grew up eating after school. The insight was: don't pretend to be something imported. Own where you actually come from.
The Concept
Structured Chaos. A visual language that deliberately breaks the grid — maximalist, vibrant, nostalgic — but underpinned by rigorous color theory and compositional logic. The "chaos" signals cultural authenticity. The "structure" signals quality. Neither works without the other. For kids: vibrant, energetic caricatures and fluid custom character animations. For the 30s–40s demographic: hyper-local street memories — raw games of Lagori, chaotic Gully Cricket matchups, and the unmistakable silhouette of a vintage Atlas Bicycle (specifically the classic models). The Lightning Blue/Turquoise background was the final master key — engineered for long-range shelf presence to pull consumers from across the store into our short-range nostalgia story.
Strategy — 4 Pillars
01
[THE_IDENTITY_GAP]
The Plain Commodity Problem
In its early stages, the product was trapped in a generic category template — visualized as a plain health bar lacking a distinct soul or reason to exist. It had no narrative muscle to define what it was or why it existed. The challenge was to transform an uncharacteristic functional food into an emotional, culturally grounded daily ritual for Indian families.
02
[THE_25_STORE_FIELD_STUDY]
Behavioral Mapping
I spent time watching people at retail stores — around 20–25 across the city. Not with a formal survey, just observing who stopped, who picked things up, what age groups noticed what. What came through clearly was that kids and parents respond to completely different things. Kids need something to grab their attention fast. Their parents or grandparents need something that feels familiar. The real opportunity was to make one design do both those jobs at the same time.
03
[VISUAL_FUSION_PLAYBOOK]
Nostalgia as an Asset
For the kids, vibrant illustrations and custom characters — the kind of energy that makes a 7-year-old stop mid-aisle. For the adults buying it, something more layered: Lagori, Gully Cricket, the old Atlas Bicycle. Specifically the old Atlas — not the updated version, the one people of a certain age actually remember. The illustrations needed to trigger a real memory, not a generic one. That specificity is what made it land.
04
[CHROMATIC_BREAKTHROUGH]
The Long-Range Attack
The illustration worked beautifully once someone was right in front of it. The problem was getting them there in the first place. From across the store, the earlier versions were getting lost in the noise. We tried a few directions — warmer tones, earthy colors — and none of them had the pull we needed from distance. The Lightning Blue came through trial and error. It was a risk, because it doesn't belong in the wellness category. That's exactly why it worked. You see it from across the store before you know what it is.
Where everything started…
— The Iteration Lab · Concept Runway
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The Retail Notebook
High-resolution scans of original field notes tracking behavioral observations, purchase triggers, and shelf placement dynamics across 20–25 retail environments.
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Character Ideation
Raw hand-drawn sketches, vector ink frameworks, and character animation wireframes of local street games — highlighting the structural lines of the vintage Atlas bicycle and the stacked wooden blocks of Lagori.
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Chromatic Testing Grid
A side-by-side display of rejected background variations and safe color templates alongside the winning Lightning Blue/Turquoise composition, proving how the definitive background maximized retail visibility.
My View On This
The core of this project was to capture a specific sensory memory: the post-play "evening snack" where Chikki was our primary source of energy. While the design evolved to combine traditional Indian chikki with a healthy fusion of millets, oats, nuts, and seeds to meet rigorous brand requirements, the "soul" of the product remained unchanged. To me, a successful product isn't just about pixel perfection; it's about the Idea and the Intent. I chose to lean into the "imperfections" and the meaningful chaos of real life, creating a visual language that feels human, nostalgic, and authentic.
Execution — Across Touchpoints
Primary Pack Design
01
Retail Packaging
Primary Pack Design
Art Direction Note
Electric blue base chosen deliberately against the amber/earth-tone health category. The nostalgic cartoon illustration anchors the "Desi" claim without using the word. Shelf presence over brand consistency — the rule was broken intentionally.
Channels
Retail shelf · Modern trade · Quick commerce
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Ideation Process
Design Runway — Sketch to Final
Art Direction Note
Seven stages from initial sketch to print-ready file. The concept direction changed twice — early versions were too clean, too "health brand." The breakthrough came when we leaned into the imperfection of hand-drawn illustration as a feature, not a limitation.
Channels
Internal brand review · Production handoff
Design Runway — Sketch to Final
Shelf Placement & Pack Array
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Retail Environment
Shelf Placement & Pack Array
Art Direction Note
The array test proved the hypothesis: at retail exposure distance, the electric blue cuts through the competitive set in under 2 seconds. Adjacent products — muted amber, white, green — recede. The chaos creates a visual anchor.
Channels
Physical retail · Amazon listing photography
Performance Dashboard
SALES GROWTH
70%
Increase in snacking range sales following the visual overhaul and nostalgic rebrand.
REVENUE SHARE
34%
Overall contribution of this product to the brand's total revenue in FY 2024–25.
MONTHLY VOLUME
8,000
Units per month. Scaled from 250 units in the first month to current high-velocity production.
BRAND RECOGNITION
58%
Increase in retail brand recognition achieved in Q3 & Q4 of FY 2024–25.
Feedback Matrix — Segmented Personas
Leadership
I've loved the design as it was our dream to have this product in our portfolio as a charmer and this design has held true for all the ideology we wanted for the product.
Jitin Munjal
CEO & Co-Founder
Leadership
Well it is a series of nostalgia that we looked for out of which this design styling worked the best for us as it was the most relevant and connecting to all of us.
Shilpa Moglishetty
CEO & Co-Founder
Internal Team
I wasn't sure about the color blue with nostalgia, but surprisingly it works as blue grasps attention and the nostalgia keeps the attention span long enough for them to make the purchase.
Roshan Kulranjan
Business Operations Head
Internal Team
It's so fun and out of the blue. I don't find it typical, but it works great as it sells in the market.
Manoj
Production Head
Internal Team
He has a good understanding of emotions so that grasp of gully cricket was expected, but the fusion of electric blue is what works as a punch.
Juhi Singh
Colleague & Visual Designer
Consumer
It's hard to see kids not choosing healthy stuff due to their plain packaging, and when kids are attracted to healthy stuff like this, it's good.
Arun
Customer / Parent
Consumer
It's a weird story — I wanted to eat something as I was feeling dizzy due to low sugar at a mall. This captured my eyes even on the brink of collapse, but then the cartoons made me smile. It's a fun packaging that really grabs attention.
Dwani Trivedi
Customer
Consumer
Crazy colors and abstract visual appearance, so it's an easy eye-grabber for sure.
Samuel
Customer
Consumer
Well, it's too overloaded, but that's what is out of the box from the market.
Gagan
Customer
What I'd Do Differently
The design solved shelf presence brilliantly. What I'd extend: a 15-second social video where the cartoon character "comes alive" — reinforcing the nostalgia claim in motion. The packaging created the idea; the next campaign is animating it. The chromatic breakthrough — the Lightning Blue — is strong enough to become the brand's permanent visual signature across the entire snacking category.
03
Packaging · Typography · Compliance
Superfoods Range
Precision as Design
CASE_STUDY_03 // CATEGORY: PACKAGING_SYSTEMS
TL;DR
Brief: Turn compliance copy into a trust signal.
Idea: Typography as the brand's argument for transparency — and a universal pouch system as a financial masterstroke.
The Brand
Jus'Amazin — Superfood Pouch Range (500g / 1kg Flexible Pouch)
The Brief
Redesign the back-of-pack information system and front-of-pack visual identity for the superfood pouch line — achieve premium visual cleanliness while increasing information density, passing regulatory compliance, and creating a modular system scalable across an entire product category lineup.
The Consumer Insight
The existing superfoods range suffered from a severe identity crisis — looking more like cold, clinical prescription medicine than a premium consumer product for individuals seeking a naturally healthy life. In the clean-label category, the back of pack is not a regulatory obligation — it's the second sales pitch. Consumers who flip the pack have already made a provisional decision to trust. What they see next either confirms that trust or collapses it.
The Concept
Typography as brand argument. Every typographic decision — casing, spacing, punctuation, hierarchy — is an implicit claim about the brand's relationship with transparency. "Flax seed" in lowercase says: we are precise, not performative. Removing stray punctuation says: we have nothing to hide. And midway through design finalization, a corporate bottleneck forced a creative breakthrough — a single, universal master pouch format dynamically iterable across multiple diverse products via custom label overlays. The financial constraint became a modular branding masterclass.
Strategy — 4 Pillars
01
[THE_MEDICINAL_TRAP]
De-Clinicalizing Wellness
The original packaging looked like something you'd find behind a pharmacy counter. White, clinical, earnest in the wrong way. It communicated health but not lifestyle, and for a product that sits in premium retail, that gap matters. First thing to fix: make it look like something a person would actually want to have in their kitchen. The medicine shelf aesthetic had to go completely.
02
[THE_PUBLIC_PARK_PARADIGM]
Urban Escapism
Urban consumers who buy superfoods are often chasing something — a bit of calm, a connection to something natural that daily city life doesn't give them. The design direction leaned into that. Natural backdrops, green open spaces — the kind of imagery that makes a person in a metro apartment feel momentarily like they're somewhere else. The product is still very much real food, but the packaging gives it a bit of breathing room.
03
[THE_UNIVERSAL_HACK]
Creative Finance
Halfway through, the budget got tight. The original plan needed individual pouch prints for each SKU — that wasn't going to work anymore. Instead of scaling down the vision, I redesigned the entire approach: one master pouch format, with custom label overlays for each product. Saved money, actually made the shelf look more cohesive, and gave us the flexibility to add new products quickly. The constraint ended up being the better design decision.
04
[OPERATIONAL_ACCELERATION]
Floor-Aware Design
I spent some time on the factory floor watching how the team was applying stickers. The process was slow and inconsistent — people were eyeballing placement, and it was costing hours. The fix was simple: build alignment guidelines directly into the label and packaging print. Not glamorous work, but watching the team go from 100 pouches an hour to 400+ was one of the more satisfying outcomes of this whole project. Good design has to work for the people making the product, not just the people buying it.
Where everything started…
— The Iteration Lab · Concept Runway
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The Clinical Baseline
High-resolution comparisons of the original medical-style labels versus early scenic sketch variants — showing the stark contrast between the pharmaceutical aesthetic and the consumer-first redesign.
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The Sticker Blueprint
Technical vector line drawings demonstrating the universal pouch design and the visual placement markers engineered for the factory floor team, enabling 4× throughput improvement.
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The Typography Overhaul
Close-up crops mapping critical back-of-pack corrections — the transition to lowercase formatting ("Flax seed", "dietary fiber", "omega-3") and the application of solid black body font for flawless legal legibility.
My View On This
An elegant design system means nothing if it breaks down on the factory floor or drains the company's fundraising capital. When budget limits and operational friction hit the Superfoods range, it didn't ruin the design — it forced it to become smarter. Shifting to a universal pouch system wasn't just a financial compromise; it was a masterclass in modular branding. Designing strict, visual sticker guidelines wasn't glamorous, but watching real humans on the production line quadruple their daily output proved that commercial design is as much about human empathy and workflow optimization as it is about front-of-pack aesthetics.
Execution — Across Touchpoints
Typography System Overhaul
01
Back of Pack
Typography System Overhaul
Art Direction Note
Strict lowercase nomenclature for all ingredient variables — "Flax seed", "dietary fiber", "omega-3". Unified "Superfood" as a single word, eliminating the confusion of "Super Food" spacing. Solid black body font for critical nutritional values (Protein 25.9g, Dietary Fiber 24.1g). The change is invisible to the casual reader and decisive for the engaged one.
Channels
Flexible pouch 500g · 1kg format
02
Shelf System
Universal Pouch Architecture
Art Direction Note
A single master pouch format dynamically iterable across the full product lineup via custom label overlays. Color-coded SKU differentiation with a consistent structural grid. The shelf reads as a system, not a collection. A financial constraint engineered into a modular branding advantage.
Channels
Modern trade shelf · Online product listing photography
Universal Pouch Architecture
Alignment Guideline Integration
03
Factory Floor System
Alignment Guideline Integration
Art Direction Note
High-visibility alignment guidelines built directly onto the packaging and stickers for human workflow optimization. Removed the manual bottleneck that limited output to 100 pouches/hour.
Channels
Print production · FSSAI compliance · Factory floor deployment
Performance Dashboard
FLOOR VELOCITY
Increase in factory floor packaging and labeling throughput efficiency.
PRINT SCALE
200K
Maximum units scaled in full-fledged commercial printed production runs.
UNITS / HOUR
400–500
Pouches per hour achieved post alignment guideline integration. Up from 100/hr.
Feedback Matrix — Segmented Personas
Leadership
The back-of-pack overhaul cleaned up our technical parameters perfectly. Moving to solid black body text and standardizing our layout casing immediately elevated our regulatory presentation.
Jitin Munjal
CEO & Co-Founder
Internal Team
Before the alignment guidelines were built onto the labels, our team was losing endless hours trying to center stickers manually on the pouches. The new system instantly boosted our hourly output from 100 to over 400 units.
Manoj
Production Head
Consumer
I used to walk right past these packs because they looked like old health supplements from a chemist's shop. The new scenic layouts look incredibly premium and make it clear that this is real, clean food for a healthy lifestyle.
Gagan
Customer
What I'd Do Differently
This project taught me that the most powerful design decisions are often invisible — the ones that make something feel right without the viewer knowing why. The universal pouch system wasn't just a financial workaround; it was a strategic advantage that competitors couldn't easily replicate. I'd take this further by applying the same typographic precision to front-of-pack, making the typographic confidence visible and deliberate on the retail shelf itself.
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