What's new in Visual Communication?

In her first column, our Mumbai correspondent Payal Khandelwal cherry picks some standout Indian food and drink packaging designs that craft modern stories with cultural nuance.

This fun-filled branding from the Berlin-based studio features tomato mascots, dental drawings, a typewriter font and even a scratch card.

The small studio prioritises working with local independent businesses and collaborating with homegrown creative talent.

Sowvital wants to flourish at the intersection of beauty and botanics with sleek, frosted packaging and satisfyingly symmetrical branding.

The female-led design studio talks us through their long-lasting love of all things graphic and how more tactile mediums are currently inspiring their work.

“We needed to radiate mass appeal,” says Porto Rocha, the graphic design studio tasked with encouraging visitors to the World Trade Centre site.

This product and campaign was created entirely in-house, proving why small budgets and limited tools can spark inventiveness.

“We wanted people to feel like they could pick them up off the page and eat them!”; the design studio talks making an identity full of hyperreal ingredients for Bunch.

To mark the release of Logo Beginnings, author Jens Müller gives us a lesson in logo history, unpacking five favourites spanning two centuries, from the niche to the revered.