Brand strategy and design studio.

Beverage branding / CPG

Packaging and identity for beverage brands going to shelf.

The can gets seconds to earn attention. The system has to survive retail buyers, distributors, production constraints and the next six flavors.

Fivestar builds the strategy, identity and packaging as one shelf-ready system—so the product looks credible now and stays coherent as the range grows.

Soft drinksBeer + spiritsFunctionalWaterReady-to-drink

The problem, plainly

A good drink can still disappear in a wall of good drinks.

01

The product is ready.

The brand still looks like a draft.

02

One SKU works.

The range becomes chaos as soon as flavor two arrives.

03

The buyer meeting is booked.

The packaging is not yet doing the selling.

04

The liquid has a story.

The shelf is not giving people enough reason to notice it.

Proof / Palm Folly

Build the world.
Then build the range.

Palm Folly turns a crowded hard-seltzer brief into an ownable identity, a clear flavor architecture and a brand people can recognize from across the cooler.

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A beverage engagement

Everything needed to make the brand ready for the shelf—and ready for what comes after.

  1. 01Positioning, audience and category opportunity
  2. 02Brand idea, naming direction and verbal identity
  3. 03Identity system and distinctive brand assets
  4. 04Can, bottle, label and carton design
  5. 05Packaging architecture for flavors, formats and future SKUs
  6. 06Production-ready artwork direction and printer collaboration
  7. 07Launch assets for sell-in, social and ecommerce
  8. 08A practical brand and packaging guideline system

Ready when the product is

You bring the drink.
We make it impossible to overlook.

Tell us what is going to shelf, where the business is headed and what has to be true at launch.

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