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Nature’s Cornerstone: brand and packaging

A functional-mushroom wellness brand that had to feel clinical enough to trust and natural enough to want, with a packaging system built to grow.

Client
Nature’s Cornerstone
Type
Brand things
Services
Branding
Role
Identity · packaging · guidelines
Year
2023

Selected previous work for Nature’s Cornerstone. Shown here as previous work, not as a Thing King project.

Four dark Nature’s Cornerstone tincture bottles with teal, green and grey labels arranged on black plinths.

The thing

Wellness lives on a knife-edge of credibility. Too clinical and it feels cold, too natural and it feels unserious. Nature’s Cornerstone needed both, in one system documented well enough to survive a growing product range.

Line-up of four Nature’s Cornerstone tincture bottles with a dropper, under the brand name and mushroom line mark.
The range as one family.

The problem

Tell the tinctures apart at a glance. Keep them one family.

Cordyceps tincture bottle beside its flat teal label showing benefits, dosage, the mushroom mark and 50ml non-alcoholic details.
The label template: one skeleton, one colour and one botanical marker per variant.

The thinking

Consistent skeleton. Controlled variation.

A shared structural template for every label, with a per-variant colour and a botanical marker. New products slot into the template without redesign.

Lion’s Mane tincture bottle beside its flat dark-teal label with the mushroom mark.
Lion’s Mane.
Turkey Tail tincture bottle beside its flat grey label with the mushroom mark.
Turkey Tail.
Reishi tincture bottle beside its flat dark label with a lime-green accent and the mushroom mark.
Reishi.

The make

The identity, the label and packaging system across the Cordyceps, Lion’s Mane, Turkey Tail and Reishi tinctures, and the brand guide that governs it.

The result

A documented, extensible system: the range reads as one considered line on shelf, and new products can be added without a redesign.

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