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Wagon Studio

July 15, 2026

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Bold typography became the hero of Sobelini's chili crunch identity

Wagon Studio designed Sobelini Pizza Crunch around a single cultural truth: that Italian craft and New York attitude don't cancel each other out — they make each other stronger. Most packaging tells you what a product is. Sobelini's tells you where it comes from, what it believes in, and exactly why it doesn't look like anything else on the shelf.

The packaging design system was built around typographic dominance. Oversized, vertically structured typography transforms each jar into a bold graphic object, turning flavor descriptors like "PIZZA CRUNCH" into the central visual gesture — readable from distance, striking at scale. High-saturation colors carve out a distinct identity for each flavor while holding the full range together as a graphic family. The transparent jar removes the barrier between design and product, allowing texture and richness to reinforce authenticity and appetite appeal from the inside out.

Checkerboard motifs and a living illustrated chef character — an illustration inspired by the founder himself — thread through the packaging as cultural markers: geometric Italian craft meeting New York street confidence. The character appears in a series of playful, exaggerated scenarios that reinforce his almost comical obsession with pizza, from enthusiastically topping every meal imaginable to literally bathing in Pizza Crunch. That visual language travels across every application — jars, boxes, shipping materials, social content — maintaining the same intensity and cultural richness at every scale.

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Credits: Wagon Studio

Brand Identity & Packaging Design: Wagon Studio

Creative Director & Illustrations: Cristina Donado

Branding Art Director: Alejandra Avellaneda

Design: Maria Fernanda Mejia

Design & Case Study: María Victoria Márquez

3D Renders & Animations: Cubo Studio

Case Study: Gustavo Andrés Calderón

Case Study: Jordan Cubillos

Copywriting: Natalia Estévez

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