MITIS - branding and packaging design
MITIS is a fictional brand that creates pharmaceutical body
cream that feels a little less like your typical medicinal cream. My aim is that
with packaging that feels more modern, exciting, fun and a little more luxurious
than the standard today, you can make it feel less like medicine and more like
your everyday skincare.
The name MITIS is latin for “mild” and it was the perfect name for this brand as
it is the essence of this product. My goal was that it would feel like a safe
and caring product for everyone to use, with a hint of elegance. The challenge
for me with this was to find the balance, to create a more modern expression
without losing the legitimacy of a pharmaceutical product which is very tied to
the traditional medicinal packaging.
The exposed label is a cue to the label pharmacists stick to the package of a
prescription drug, which this is not, but it's an indication that this is in
fact a medicinal product. The color choices I made, blue and purple, were based
on input from surveys where I found out that these colors communicated trust
within this line of products, which was an important factor for me. The aim with
the branding imagery was that the skin itself should be highlighted and in
focus. To attain that, I photographed the model in a studio setting with white
background and worked with very hard crops of the images to really give the skin
all the attention - just as the product does.