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Materia Prima

A Botanical-Inspired Brand for a Farm-to-Farm Micro Roastery

Intro­duc­ing a new cof­fee brand requires more than clever design — it demands authen­tic sto­ry­telling root­ed in place and pur­pose. When Luca and Rachel approached us to devel­op a cof­fee brand that would bridge their Ital­ian her­itage with their Geor­gian home­stead, we embraced the chal­lenge of cre­at­ing an iden­ti­ty as rich and lay­ered as the cof­fee itself.

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A Name Born from Essence

The name Mate­ria Pri­ma — Ital­ian for raw mate­ri­als” — emerged as our guid­ing star, a lin­guis­tic touch­stone that hon­ors both ori­gin and process. It speaks to cof­fee’s trans­for­ma­tive jour­ney from seed to cup while cel­e­brat­ing the fun­da­men­tal ele­ments that make excep­tion­al cof­fee pos­si­ble: soil, water, air, and devot­ed human hands. The name rolls across the tongue with melod­ic pre­ci­sion, a ver­bal embod­i­ment of the brand’s har­mo­nious duality.

“We are very pleased with the name and identity. It communicates what is truly important in coffee, our lives, and in food.”
Luca & Rachel
Luca & Rachel
Founders
Materia Prima
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The Visual Harvest: Designing Nature’s Narrative

The Mate­ria Pri­ma iden­ti­ty blooms from a seed of inten­tion — to hon­or both ori­gin and des­ti­na­tion. Each visu­al ele­ment serves as a tac­tile con­nec­tion between worlds: the flow­ing typog­ra­phy dances like morn­ing mist over Ital­ian hill­sides, while intri­cate botan­i­cal pat­terns echo the secret lan­guage of cof­fee plants reach­ing toward sun­light. This is not mere­ly brand­ing, but a visu­al ecosys­tem where every ele­ment breathes with purpose.

This typo­graph­ic approach cre­ates visu­al poet­ry — a name that is indeed an absolute delight to say” becomes equal­ly delight­ful to behold, invit­ing cus­tomers into a sen­so­ry expe­ri­ence before the first sip touch­es their lips.

The logo­type flows with the grace of a gen­tle stream — organ­ic yet pur­pose­ful — craft­ed to evoke both the ele­gance of Ital­ian design sen­si­bil­i­ty and the hon­est warmth of Geor­gia hos­pi­tal­i­ty. Each let­ter­form con­nects to the next like branch­es of a care­ful­ly tend­ed plant, cre­at­ing rhythm and move­ment that mir­rors the jour­ney from seed to cup.

The col­or palette draws from nature’s own apothe­cary — earthy umbras and ver­dant greens that speak of fer­tile soil, punc­tu­at­ed by the crim­son vibran­cy of cof­fee cher­ries. These hues tell a sto­ry of sea­son­al­i­ty, of patience, of awakening.

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Botanical Alchemy: The Artisan’s Hand

Hand-drawn botan­i­cal illus­tra­tions serve as win­dows into the soul of Mate­ria Pri­ma — each stroke a cel­e­bra­tion of the con­nec­tion between farmer and land. These visu­al touch­points hon­or both the cof­fee-grow­ing regions and the agri­cul­tur­al her­itage shared between Ital­ian and Geor­gian farm­ing tra­di­tions, demon­strat­ing how dis­tant lands can share a com­mon rev­er­ence for what emerges from soil.

The illus­tra­tions trans­form pack­ag­ing into sto­ry­telling ves­sels, each car­ry­ing nar­ra­tives of cul­ti­va­tion, care, and craft that tran­scend lan­guage and speak direct­ly to the uni­ver­sal appre­ci­a­tion for things made with intention.

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“Our packaging is beautifully illustrated and designed. It illustrates our love of the land. It is colorful and vibrant, sophisticated but approachable.”
Luca & Rachel
Luca & Rachel
Founders
Materia Prima
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