Every year, around the world, we waste a third of the food we produce. Every Citizen product is made using food that would otherwise go to waste or low-value stock feed. The team rescues this food, then reworks it into delicious high quality foods and beverages.
To start, they've developed a circular solution to Aotearoa's most wasted product: bread. Their first products are craft beers made using rescued surplus bread, and an artisan sourdough bread which uses flour made from the spent-grain by-product of their beer brews. Bread, into beer, into bread.
Taking a lead from Citizen's disruptive approach to food waste, we disrupted traditional branding and identity thinking. The brand has no single logo, no single colour palette, no single marque or typeface. Instead, a series of unique assets are brought together to help tell the story. These assets are combined in different ways across product categories, so each product feels like part of the family, but distinct and unique categories.
As part of the studio team at Special Group, I was tasked with the image retouch, application and rollout of the new brand identity. The new brand was developed and applied across all the company’s touchpoints, including a new logomark and identity, packaging, social, website, digital content and signage.
