Black Bee Honey by OMSE – BP&O

It was yesterday I made a run to the native grocery store to choose up some necessities. I had two selections, flip left to Waitrose or proper to Morrisons. Regardless of being considerably worth aware, I take pleasure in wanting on the packaging on the higher-priced Waitrose, so went left–let’s say it’s the price of being a designer.

Anyway, honey was on the checklist. Not for me however my fiancé. She’s not choosy, so I are inclined to go for Waitrose’s Necessities. Necessities for the necessities. High-quality, I like that. Honey is just not one thing I’ve thought an excessive amount of about, however identical to batch-roasted third wave speciality espresso, there’s a model prepared to teach me on the small print of manufacturing and persuade me to pay extra.

The OMSE case examine units Black Bee Honey up as an antagonist to ‘faux’ honey. Apparently, our cabinets a affected by untraceable sugar-syrup blends. Wow, I could have been failing to really purchase my fiancé honey all this time. (I did double verify, and though it’s a mix, it’s really honey, no syrup). I’m not totally satisfied of the accusation, maybe a visit to Morrisons? Anyway.

The longer term, within the thoughts of Black Bee Honey, is a bit like craft espresso earlier than it; fully-traceable and single-origin. The fee for such a assure is triple. That requires some severely sturdy messaging, an honest model and an consciousness of what the market sees worth in and is ready to pay for. Fortunately, Black Bee Honey labored with East London-based design studio OMSE.

As an apart, like olive oil, honey is out on the counter, shut handy. Anna, my fiancé, likes to have honey water within the morning so it’s normally shut handy. These merchandise are ornamental in nature. Set dressing for the kitchen. See Unto and Graza. Cool shit on the counter, a little bit of intrigue (or taste-signalling) when visitors go to. For me, I’ll take a little bit of pleasure wherever I can get it. If that’s a vibrant illustrative honey label, it could be well worth the premium.

The set-up is easy. “Hold British Honey Wild”. I really like the double which means round wild. And it’s fairly wild, with a protagonist bee character, sufficiently anthropomorphised to offer it a way of individuality, a lifetime of its personal, away from the hive. It’s a bit particular like that. This performs out throughout web site and packaging. Not strictly narratives, extra particular person cells of a comic book ebook. The bee is depicted lazily sitting round or yawning. Then it’s flower-hugging and flag waving. Plenty of effort has gone into creating a personality with persona, which could be context related and constructed out as extra product strains are added.

‘Wildness’ additionally comes by within the angular kinds used all through the illustrations. These are loud and busy, eye-catching from a distance (actually helped by color) and extra legible up shut. These demand enquiry, and profit from the present and unhappy state of honey branding and packaging. On-line, the story and positioning is fleshed out and never a disappointment. All the pieces is in keeping with packaging. For lots of the model jobs I analysis, this nonetheless isn’t all the time the case…

Alongside the illustrations, OMSE crafted a gloopy honey-like condensed sans-serif typeface ‘Black Bee Sans’. This has one thing of a marketing campaign visible language about it, however with sufficient quirkiness to maintain all from being shouty. There’s an exquisite variable high quality to this that lends the model a little bit of a tonal flexibility relying on the messaging and context, or what what phrase may want emphasising. That is paid with some playful, however on the nostril copywriting, which mainly rounds out a full home (customized typeface, movement, pictures, illustration). There’s nothing OMSE hasn’t employed (however superbly corralled right into a cohesive identification), which provides it an enormous benefit. There’s heaps to like about this, and it makes it clear as honey, flower-to-jar might be the subsequent large factor to hit East London.