paper fox

A coffee bag and a black tin from a Paper Fox identity, on a plaster plinth

We are a design studio in Bristol that works on food and drink and nothing else. Brand identity, packaging and labels — drawn once, specified properly, and handed over as files your printer can quote from.

Most founders come to us with a product that already sells and packaging that stopped keeping up. The job is usually less invention than order: one system, drawn to fit every size in the range, so the next flavour does not need a designer.
Brief and audit
Two routes
Artwork and dielines
Print
Guidelines
Five steps, six to eight weeks for a full identity. You see two routes, not twelve. We stay on the phone to the printer through the first run, because that is where most packaging projects quietly go wrong.
Uncut sheets of die-cut labels and colour chips on a studio desk
Blind-embossed cards, a swing tag and a stick of sealing wax
Printed proofs and a guidelines dummy open on an ivory table
A row of preserve jars with paper labels and waxed cloth lids
Close-up of an embossed paper label on a dark glass bottle

Work

The Hollow Hill coffee range, laid out flat
Hollow Hill
Brand identity

Four projects, start to shelf

Every project here states what was wrong, what we drew and what changed once it was printed. Coffee, preserves, beer and a pantry range — four different print budgets, four different problems. If your range is closer to one of them than the others, say so in the first line of your enquiry.
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