Germina

Designed by Savvy Studio, Monterrey

Germina, designed by Savvy Studio

Germina reinterprets Mexico’s traditional market stalls, selling product in bulk with a wide range of seeds, grains and cereals: from poppy seeds to different varieties of quinoa, dried spicy chickpeas as snacks or nutritious cereal bars — all catering towards more health-conscious lifestyles.

Germina identity design

Germina identity design

Germina identity design

Germina identity design

The design was crafted as a contemporary take on typical market aesthetics and experience, mostly resulting from a direct relationship between customer and vendor, through a clean, modern graphic language. All designs seek to be extremely practical, using basic packaging made from recycled materials — all customisable — emphasising the product’s name, weight and price, thus, following the rituals from habitual market shopping experience.

Natural, almost rustic materials communicate the brand’s core values in a very direct manner, glorifying its products and the trade’s casual nature. The weighing scale is in itself the very core of Germina’s branding, and as such, a vintage one was placed — almost altar-like — at the centre of the main display, connoting the shop’s functional, human and traditional essence.

Germina identity design

Germina identity design

Germina identity design

Germina identity design

Germina identity design

Germina identity design

Germina identity design

Germina identity design

Germina identity design

Germina identity design

Germina identity design

Germina identity design

Germina identity design

Germina identity design

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