Craft kombucha bottle with colorful label being poured
Wine bottle with artisan label on wooden surface
Artisan burger with colorful toppings on restaurant menu
Colorful snack packaging and protein bars arranged on foil
Craft beer tap handle with custom branding in brewery
Hot sauce bottles with colorful labels on grocery shelf
Pantone color swatch fan open on design desk
Elegant restaurant interior with branded menu on table
Food & Beverage Branding Studio

We make food brands people eat with their eyes.

From the tap handle to the grocery shelf — we design the visual identity that makes people reach, pour, and come back.

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Selected Work

The Portfolio

Every project is a different world. Hover to enter it.

Spirits & Beer

For the craft distillery staring at a blank label sheet and the brewery founder who needs their tap handle to stop traffic.

Dark whiskey bottle with obsidian black label and gold foil typography
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Spirits

Obsidian Rye

Black Ridge Distillery

3× reorder rate in first 6 months

Botanical gin bottles with illustrated botanical label artwork
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Spirits

Botanical Gin Series

Meridian Spirits

Featured in Bon Appétit

Premium bourbon bottle with hand-lettered label on wooden barrel
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Spirits

Barrel Reserve

Cascade Creek Bourbon

Snacks & Condiments

CPG startups about to pitch Whole Foods buyers — your packaging is the pitch deck buyers read with their hands.

Colorful snack chip bags with bold graphic packaging design
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CPG Snacks

Sunfield Crunch

Sunfield Snacks

1,200 Whole Foods doors in 90 days

Hot sauce bottles with flame graphic label on grocery shelf
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CPG Condiments

Heatwave Hot Sauce

Heatwave Foods

Regional → National in 18 months

Protein bar packaging with bold athletic branding and foil wrapper
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CPG Health

Protein Bar Identity

Apex Nutrition

Restaurant Systems

Legacy restaurant groups rebranding after a generational handoff. Full visual systems from menu to merch.

Upscale restaurant interior with branded menus and table settings
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Restaurant System

Ember & Oak

Ember & Oak Restaurant Group

Full rebrand after generational handoff

Modern Asian noodle restaurant with custom menu and branded packaging
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Restaurant Brand

Noodle & Thread

Noodle & Thread

Craft brewery taproom with custom tap handles and branded glassware
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Brewery Taproom

The Cooperage

The Cooperage Taproom

Tap handle recognition up 78%

Retail Packaging at Scale

Regional products ready for national distribution. We build the shelf presence that survives the buying committee.

Premium mineral water bottles with clean minimal label design
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Retail Packaging

Glacier Water Co.

Glacier Water Co.

$2.4M year-one retail revenue

Artisan coffee bag packaging with hand-drawn illustration label
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CPG Beverage

Morning Ritual Coffee

Morning Ritual

Kombucha bottles with colorful botanical label design in refrigerator
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Kombucha Brand

Ferment & Co.

Ferment & Co.

Whole Foods partnership secured

Condensation on a cold craft beer can, macro photography
Spirits & Beer

"$2.4M in first-year retail sales"

Cold Craft Brewing Co.

What We Do

Every surface
a canvas.

We work across the full physical touchpoint spectrum — from the first sketch on a napkin to the label that ships in a million units. Palette is built for food and beverage. Nothing else.

180+

Brands Launched

40+

National Retail Doors

12

Years in F&B

Avg. Reorder Rate Lift

01
Logo Design

Brand Identity

Logo systems, color palettes, typography hierarchies — built for the physical world of packaging and print, not just screens.

Color SystemTypography
02
Labels

Label & Packaging

Die-cut labels, shrink sleeves, folding cartons. We design for the shelf — accounting for material, lighting, and the 3-second grab decision.

PackagingStructural
03
Print Menus

Menu Systems

From single-page inserts to full tasting menus with custom illustration. Menus that make mouths water before a word is read.

Digital MenusIllustration
04
Environmental

Taproom & Retail

Tap handles, glassware, signage, merch. Full branded environments for breweries, taprooms, and flagship retail formats.

SignageMerchandise
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Go-to-Market

Launch Strategy

Pre-launch visual audits, buyer presentation decks, shelf placement strategy. We help you look like you belong in the aisle before you're in it.

Retail StrategyPitch Decks
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Rebranding

Brand Refresh

For legacy brands after a generational handoff — preserving equity while modernizing the visual language for today's consumer.

Brand AuditHeritage
Sugar crystals macro photography on artisan gummy candy
CPG Retail

"Listed in 1,200 Whole Foods locations in 90 days"

Sunfield Snacks

Client Results

Brands that moved.

CPG / Snacks

"We walked into the Whole Foods buyer meeting with Palette's packaging. The buyer said it looked like it had been on their shelves for years. We got the PO the same week."

Marcus Okafor, founder of Sunfield Snacks, headshot

Marcus Okafor

Founder, Sunfield Snacks

Craft Brewery

"Our tap handle used to be the one people had to ask about. Now it's the one they photograph. Palette understood that a tap handle is a 3-inch billboard."

Priya Nambiar, co-founder of The Cooperage Brewing, headshot

Priya Nambiar

Co-Founder, The Cooperage Brewing

Restaurant Group

"We handed the restaurant to the next generation and needed it to feel like theirs. Palette preserved the soul of what our father built while making it look like it belongs in 2026."

James Whitmore, co-operator of Ember and Oak Restaurant Group, headshot

James & Elena Whitmore

Operators, Ember & Oak Restaurant Group

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