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Nimi Pretorius
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• Jun 24
A world of herbs and spices: packaging design, naming and copywriting for a travel-inspired spice brand
Brand creation, product naming, copywriting and creative direction across a range of internationally inspired spice blends.
THE STORY
Some of the best ideas start with a feeling rather than a brief.
Three friends had spent years travelling together, eating their way through markets and street corners and other people's kitchens. They wanted to bring something back. Not souvenirs. The real thing. The flavours that made them stop mid-bite and ask what on earth was in this.
Taste Adventures was built around that feeling. A spice brand organised not by ingredient but by journey. My job was to create the whole world: the name, the products, the visual language, the words on every surface.
The product names came first, because everything else had to follow from them. Mississippi Magic. Pride of India. Mama Africa. Each one needed to evoke a place without reducing it, to feel like a destination rather than a description. Get those wrong and the whole range falls flat.
The design gave each SKU its own cultural visual language: Mardi Gras tilework, Indian mandala patterning, West African textile motifs. Distinct enough to stand alone. Connected enough to belong to the same story. The hot air balloon in the brand mark tied it all together quietly, a symbol of curiosity and movement that didn't need to shout.
The copy on each pack had one job: make someone feel something before they even open it. Like they're already halfway there.
WHAT IT TAUGHT ME
That a range is only as strong as its internal logic. The moment one product feels like it slipped in from somewhere else, the whole idea loses its nerve. Here, consistency wasn't a creative constraint. It was the whole point.
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