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    You have to really love this job

    Maciej Korczak | Brand Design Team Manager at Kompania Piwowarska

    Marketing largely refers to emotions, while the main goal of design is to tell a story about the brand, its identity and values. And even though many criteria of good design can be parametrized, it still remains an important, elusive element referring to emotions. That’s what makes our job so unusual.

    Published on 30.09.2022

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    Our job and passion is to work with brands. We are the service team for the Marketing Department – we provide services for Kompania Piwowarska’s brands. Currently, as a group of five, we design our packaging and establish visual principles, i.e. brand books.

    My team consists of great projects managers, who deliver a lot of added value thanks to their skills, experience, marketing and graphic design competencies, and great commitment. Because you have to really love this job.

    From A to Z

    What’s great about our job is the fact that we take care of the packaging design from A to Z. The quality of our final packaging, which ends up on the market and in the hands of our customers, mainly depends on the work of our team.

    An interesting stage of our work is the development of a project brief for the design agency, discussing which objective the project should pursue. For example, in the case of innovative projects - New Product Development, we know that together with the creatives we need to build a new, visually interesting space that we want to enter. It is about constantly pushing the boundaries.

    Has any particular project been exceptionally memorable? It would definitely be the latest redesign for the Captain Jack brand with a strong and iconic main character – the parrot, and the modification of the classic lagers from our portfolio – Tyskie and Żubr.

    We also execute smaller projects, which require great commitment too, including export projects. For their purpose, we deliver language or format adaptations, because some markets expect other formats than those we sell on or local market.

    Working on packaging design involves not only primary unit packaging, but also multipacks, boxes and trays. It also encompasses introduction of changes into marketing policies, legal requirements, technical specifications. To sum up, every year, our team deals with about 600 graphic design projects. That number increases year on year, as our brand portfolio continues to expand.

    From the portfolio perspective

    Working for that many brands, we have a portfolio perspective, meaning we share experiences and good practices between ourselves and with the brands. It is not a common approach. In another one – one person is assigned to one brand for years. We do our best to share work for specific brands, also for the purpose of self-development.

    Well-designed packaging should look good both on the shelf and in the consumer’s hand. That’s a challenge. Proper packaging often meets only one of these criteria. The best ones – meet both of them. For the biggest projects, we conduct consumer research, as they are successfully review an idea we come up with and then refine.

    When designing, we obviously try to take our consumers’ minds and hearts into consideration, but their actual opinion, the opinion of our target group, expressed in a survey is a valuable metric of our work.

    What brings us the greatest satisfaction is the moment when we see the final packaging resulting from our project on a store shelf, when it goes out into the world and starts living its own life.