KitKat Celebreak Packaging Design
Scenario
Kit Kat was heading towards the festive season. By its nature, the brand is youthful & vibrant. And the nature of Indian festivals is traditional. The challenge, then, was to marry the two in a seamless manner.
Why PRAKRIA?
It was a challenge that required out-of-the-box thinking, but at the same time it required functioning within certain guardrails. You know, the classic Catch-22. Kit Kat wanted something youthful & vibrant, but also something that stays in tune with Tradition.
Our Solution
Our Solution started with brainstorming while we were Having a Break. The Good Ol’ Method to our Madness. Well, in one of those breaks, inspiration sprang to mind.
‘Why not CELEBREAK instead of Celebrate?’
Eureka! Time to get grinding.
Our bucket list comprised of every minute festive cues- right from shopping to celebrating with selfies. The brain-mapping required us to put in a perspective encapsulating the expression without letting go off the Kit Kat effect.
We sprung back with 2 approaches. Dialing up the verbal expressions -- WOW and JOY, we came up with Paisley as our chief design element. The iconic packaging acquired the 80% of KK range (1st ever instance when a chocolate brand relied on a special pack rather than the master).
We created Traditional Festive elements in a youthful design language jutting out of the Kit Kat Snap, capturing the celebratory spirit through the snap element. The pack was a curious case of ‘the more you look, the more you discover’. It set the benchmark for further such packs to follow, and to this date, is used as an example of a great, revolutionary packaging design.
