Project

FRUIT Coffee

Prepared by

Eric Villalobos
Watsonville, California

Line	Item	Field
01	FRUIT CoffeeProject	Project
02	Packaging & LabelsDiscipline	Discipline
03	Brand IdentityDiscipline	Discipline
04	CoffeeDiscipline	Discipline
05	15Plates	Plates

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Notes

FRUIT Coffee is a Dubai specialty roastery built on one idea: coffee is a fruit. The brief was to build a brand that competes by being impossible to ignore in a category drowning in muted tones. We delivered the full identity system, logo, color, pattern, packaging, merch, plus a nine-template Shopify storefront.

FRUIT Coffee is a specialty roastery in Dubai. The whole brand stands on one fact most coffee branding ignores: coffee is a fruit. Specialty coffee shelves default to Berlin minimal, muted tones, thin type, quiet confidence. FRUIT needed the opposite. The brief was an identity as sharp as the product: the loudest voice on the shelf and the screen, without tipping into noise.

We built the system around a red fruit mark and a two-color core, red on cream, yellow on red, backed by a repeating brand pattern. Discipline keeps it from shouting itself hoarse: red is capped at 15% coverage per surface, accent only, never decoration. Five flavor-family colors map directly to SKU wayfinding, so the packaging system does the navigation work a barista would otherwise do. The identity rolled out across stand-up pouches, paper cups, mugs, tees, hoodies, hats, totes, stickers, and wheatpasted posters.

On the web side we built the storefront in nine Shopify Liquid templates, carrying the same wayfinding logic from shelf to screen. The result is a brand that reads instantly at pouch size, at cup size, and at thumbnail size, one idea, pushed all the way through.