Year: 2025 Scope of Work: Research and analysis, logo development, packaging and labels creation.
The project was born from a clear ambition: to position Shwartz Caviar as a premium black caviar brand that speaks the language of contemporary luxury — confident, minimal, and undeniably refined. The challenge was not simply to design a beautiful package, but to build a visual identity capable of competing on the shelves of high-end delicatessens and luxury retail environments worldwide.
Logo design, visual identity and packaging for a premium black caviar brand — where restraint becomes the ultimate expression of luxury.
Black caviar occupies a unique space in the luxury market — it carries centuries of cultural weight, yet its visual communication is often trapped in dated conventions of gold ornamentation and heavy tradition. Shwartz required an identity that honored the product's prestige while embracing the restraint and sophistication of modern premium branding.
Key Challenges
Differentiating Shwartz Caviar from heritage competitors while establishing a fresh, contemporary positioning within the ultra-premium food segment
Translating the sensory qualities of the product — depth, rarity, texture — into a coherent and ownable visual language
Creating packaging that performs equally well as a luxury retail object, a gifting item, and a brand statement across digital and physical touchpoints
Balancing visual boldness with the restraint expected of a truly premium brand — avoiding excess while commanding attention
Logo
The Schwartz Caviar logo combines the Taylor Royal Classic typeface with a custom sturgeon illustration. The fish is drawn in a circular form, creating a self-contained emblem that sits at the center of a typographic ring with the full brand name. The mark works as a standalone seal across all packaging applications — as a printed label, embossed relief, or debossed surface.
Brand Palette
The palette is anchored in deep black — not as an absence of color, but as a material presence, referencing the caviar itself. Against this, warm champagne gold provides the single accent: applied sparingly, it signals value without ostentation. The result is a palette that feels both timeless and sharply contemporary, adaptable across matte, gloss, and metallic finishes.
Typography
A single typeface is used across the logo and all packaging: Taylor Royal Classic — a geometric sans-serif with clean, even capitals and consistent stroke width. Applied without modification, it performs equally well in circular typographic arrangements and small-scale label text.
Two tin packaging versions were developed using the same structural form and logo design.
Packaging
The gold version features a polished yellow-gold metal surface with a two-tone lid — brushed matte gold background with deep black recessed graphic elements, creating a medallion-like effect.
The black version uses a fully tonal, matte black finish where the logo is applied as a debossed relief — visible only through the contrast between the matte surface and the slightly reflective raised areas. A polished gold outer rim connects both versions within the same visual system.
Design System
Every element of the Schwartz Caviar identity references the product directly. Packaging, mark, and visual materials read as natural extensions of the same object rather than designed additions to it.
Website Development
The website features a clear and structured design, a simple and straightforward user journey, and bold geometric graphic elements, which soften the rigidity and emphasize the brand's modernity and openness.
Shwartz Caviar represents a considered rejection of visual excess in a category that has long relied on it. The resulting identity is precise, scalable, and confident — a system that positions the brand as a natural choice for a discerning global audience that equates true luxury with the discipline to say less.
Created in 2025
Project development period: 1 month
Project team: Personal Account Manager of the project, Art Director, Brand Designer, Motion Designer