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Responsibilities

Strategist

Packaging & Food Designer

Brand Identity Designer

3D Designer & Animator


Context

  • Summer 2025

  • Duration: 2 Weeks

  • Tools: Adobe CC, Figma, Blender

Problem

Existing Indian dessert brands rely heavily on ornate, traditional motifs, gold foiling, and cultural symbolism that doesn’t translate universally.

Objective

Transform mithai from a ceremonial dessert, into a globally relevant confectionary product, like chocolate from South America, and mochi from Japan.

Key Words

Warm, Traditional, Contemporary




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Introduction


Spreading the Delight of Indian Desserts


Skechers is one of the world’s largest footwear brands, yet its visual identity has remained rooted in an early-2000s aesthetic that no longer reflects its scale, product innovation, or cultural relevance.

Deliverables

  1. Brand Foundation

  1. Visual Identity System

  1. Activations: Digital & Physical

Design Problem


Eclectic Food Shape & Packaging


Skechers is a billion-dollar brand with retail presence everywhere, yet its visual identity is stuck in a strange time capsule.


Skechers’ current identity simply doesn’t scale. It fights modern touchpoints—apps, social, retail, collaborations—because it was built for print-era advertising, not responsive ecosystems.

Pain Points

  1. The Algorithm Distraction

  1. The Algorithm Distraction

  1. The Algorithm Distraction

Brand Breakdown


3 flavors of Indian Desserts, known as Mithai, transformed into bite sized balls, in order to be consumed as To-Go snacks by a global audience.

Chocolate (Fudge)

Boondi (Gram Flour)

Kajoo (Cashew)

Packaging: 12 bite sized balls per box.

Value Proposition


  1. bringing. value to a global market

Skechers is one of the world’s largest footwear brands, yet its visual identity has remained rooted in an early-2000s


  1. making culture contemorary

Skechers is one of the world’s largest footwear brands, yet its visual identity has remained rooted in an early-2000s


  1. ergonomic design

Skechers is one of the world’s largest footwear brands, yet its visual identity has remained rooted in an early-2000s