Non-Alcoholic Beverages
Brand Identity Design, Packaging Design, Art Direction
05 Days
RIVA - non-alcoholic mocktail brand
A non-alcoholic drink has to look and read as premium as the spirit it is replacing, without ever letting a buyer mistake it for the real thing, and RIVA’s own packaging blurs exactly that line. The 250 ml Ready to Drink bottle is labeled Non-Alcoholic directly above its own product name, Yuzu, Mango and Tequila, and a companion recipe card names Spicy Vodka Lime Soda as a flavor. Naming a real spirit inside a product that states Non-Alcoholic on the same label is a labeling contradiction before it is a design problem, and it sits on the exact packaging a retail buyer would pick up first
A wordmark with one drawn flourish
RIVA is set in a serif with a single hand drawn swash curling beneath the V, the one non-standard detail that keeps the mark from reading as a default typeface. It holds up small on a can and large on a circular badge lockup without redrawing.
One neck tag line, one label line
Every bottle carries two separate messages in two fixed positions: Good Company Goes Further printed vertically on the neck tag, and Bright Flavors Bolder Days set horizontally on the front label. The split gives the bottle two moments to make a claim instead of crowding one.
Citrus illustration as the flavor signal
A hand painted citrus half, blood orange, grapefruit, yuzu, sits on every label in the same size and position, so a shopper reads the flavor from the fruit illustration before reading the flavor name in text.
Golden hour as the only lighting condition
Every supplied photograph, bottle, can, billboard, and flat lay, is shot in warm, low, late-day light against stone, citrus, and coastline. No studio white background appears anywhere in the campaign material, which is what makes the range read as a place, not a product.
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