Sid Mehta Works
Naavo

Naavo

A contemporary Ayurveda identity spanning packaging, retail, and guided products.

  • Role Solo
  • Duration 8 weeks
  • Year 2020

Project highlights

8 weeks

identity to packaging

3

brand · logo · packaging

Solo

concept & visual system

Overview

Built an Ayurveda brand end to end, identity through packaging, in eight weeks, using botanical forms and warm materials without clinical or nostalgic clichés.

Branding · PackagingSolo · Self Initiated

A botanical identity built to work across packaging, retail, and a guided product experience.

The Naavo identity and New Age Ayurveda positioning
Naavo face and body oils with printed packaging
Naavo app screens and guided product recommendations

The core Ayurvedic model became the organizing principle rather than surface decoration.

Five elements combining into the three Ayurvedic doshas

Overlapping forms reduced the elements and doshas into one flexible symbol and pattern language.

Logo exploration and the dosha color system
Construction of the Naavo mark and its component forms

Color, material, and pattern distinguish each product while keeping the family recognizable at shelf distance.

Naavo massage oil cartons in kraft board
Naavo body polisher packaging
Naavo face serum photographed in a natural setting
A Naavo tote carried through foliage
Naavo billboard inviting people to discover their dosha
Reflection

Traditional references could quickly become nostalgic, while a clinical system would lose Ayurveda’s material character. Botanical forms, warm materials and a precise typographic structure held the identity between those extremes.

I started thinking more carefully about packaging as a physical encounter. How it sits in someone’s hand, how it reads from three feet away on a shelf, and what it says before anyone reads the label.

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