Boro Bread
re-considered
The self-initiated work below is part of our ongoing interest in the evolution of consumer brands and branding We're passionate about design. We are especially passionate about the strategic aspects unique to the redesign for an established brand. Established brands have loyal consumers, familiar brand assets and generally brand perceptions that will be linked to any new design. Every redesign assignment must seek the balance between maintaining a familiar thread with the existing consumer while finding a new relevance to attract the potential new customers. The self-initiated work below is part of our ongoing interest in the evolution of consumer brands and branding.

Boro Bread
The ubiquitous loaf of crusty bread is found everywhere, a food staple, the original slow food, artisanal in the hands of a craft baker, but in the world of branding it is very much a commodity.

Here in NYC it’s high art at Sullivan Street Bakery or Balthazar, both in baking and branding, but most often a more humble version is found in the hundreds of corner markets around the city. The loaves from the neighborhood bakeries that supply these corner markets, are often packaged in generic bakery bags, which belie the real story behind many of them.

Packaging is a quirky collection of clip art and visual cliche, oddly most of this bread comes from 4th or 5th generation family bakeries, rich with a history and authenticity that was not born from any focused branding effort. These simple and unpretentious packages are strangely endearing, yet one wonders if reimagined visual equities and a bit of design restraint would net packaging that would relate to a broader consumer audience. With this in mind we selected a small sampling of bakery bags and redesigned them. Our intent was to focus on retaining aspects of the original packages, while considering design elements that would help to build richer brand stories.
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