Vasu Chaudhry

Design Strategist

Glint

BRAND IDENTITY AND PACKAGING

How might we create a brand that feels both fresh and trustworthy in the cocktails and mixers industry?

ROLE

Branding

Designer

COLLABORATORS

None

DURATION

3 Months

TOOLS

Adobe

Creative

Cloud

Glint

BRAND IDENTITY & PACKAGING

BRAND IDENTITY AND PACKAGING

How might we create a brand that feels both fresh and trustworthy in the cocktails and mixers industry?

ROLE

Branding Designer

COLLABORATORS

None

DURATION

3 Months

TOOLS

Adobe Creative Cloud

01

Research

  1. THE CATEGORY TO BREAK FROM

B. NAMING THE FEELING

01

Research

  1. THE CATEGORY TO BREAK FROM

B. NAMING THE FEELING

The Category to break from

The Category to break

from

Kissatens are traditional Japanese cafés from the early 20th century, intimate, nostalgic spaces built around hand-brewed coffee, simple Western-inspired meals, and an atmosphere of calm refinement. The brief was to retain that ethos of patience, craftsmanship, and ritual while connecting it to a younger, more online audience shaped by digital nostalgia and anime-inspired subcultures.


Effervescent tablets carry a pharmaceutical visual language by default, clinical, medical, functional. Glint needed to shed that entirely and become something else: a lifestyle product for cocktail and mocktail mixing, appealing to casual drinkers and cocktail enthusiasts alike, not a supplement aisle product that happens to be flavoured.


Kissatens are traditional Japanese cafés from the early 20th century, intimate, nostalgic spaces built around hand-brewed coffee, simple Western-inspired meals, and an atmosphere of calm refinement. The brief was to retain that ethos of patience, craftsmanship, and ritual while connecting it to a younger, more online audience shaped by digital nostalgia and anime-inspired subcultures.

The Metaphor to build

on

Vision itself, light, focus, openness, became the source material. Rather than illustrate eyecare literally, the brand needed to embody the feeling of clearer sight: transparency as both a value and a visual principle.

Naming the feeling

The name itself set the brief. Glint evokes sparkle, effervescence, a lively drinking moment, the identity needed to balance playfulness and elegance rather than choosing one over the other.

02

Concept

  1. THE LOGOMARK

B. PALETTE & TYPE

02

Concept

  1. THE LOGOMARK

B. PALETTE & TYPE

The Logomark

The wordmark builds the fizz directly into its letterforms, a lime slice replacing the dot on the "i," a martini glass integrated into the "G." The G anchors the brand with bold simplicity, while the martini glass signals refinement and a celebratory lifestyle rather than a clinical one. Nothing about the mark reads as medical.

Color as flavor

Rather than one fixed palette, colour shifts by flavour, teal for green apple, coral for strawberry burst, red for watermelon, so the range reads as varied and giftable on a shelf rather than one SKU repeated in different shades.

03

Execution

Rather than studio-only product shots, the identity was tested in real social contexts, a poker night, a cocktail glass, to prove the branding performs in the settings it's actually designed for, not just in isolation.

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Reflections

The strongest move here is refusing a single fixed palette, letting colour shift by flavour instead. It turns what could've been a static identity into something that reads as a real range, varied enough to feel giftable, consistent enough to still say Glint at a glance.


What I'd test further is whether "premium but approachable" survives next to an actual shelf of competitors, not just in isolation. The lifestyle photography proves the brand performs in the moments it's built for, a party, a pocket, but there's no comparison shown against the pharmaceutical-style packaging it's explicitly trying to break away from. Seeing Glint next to that clinical shelf standard would prove the differentiation the whole brief was built on, rather than just asserting it.











Vasu Chaudhry

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Vasu Chaudhry

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Thinking

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Vasu Chaudhry

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About

Thinking

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LinkedIn

Medium

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