Koto Methods: Package Design & Campaign Design for Diabetes Health
Rethinking Health Communication through Packaging and Education
Chronic diseases, such as diabetes, have become increasingly prevalent, yet there remains a limited understanding or insufficient discussion on the topic. Questions about the effectiveness of our current health system have been raised, given the challenges posed by a strained workforce of doctors and nurses, sustainability concerns related to health industry waste, and the difficulties in navigating negative perceptions of diseases.
With Koto Methods our campaign addresses rethinking, re-contextualizing, and having further conversations on the health industry's approach by creating education tools and strategic ways for design to become progressive and serve as a means to help and understand chronic diseases.
Contributions
EDITORIAL DESIGN, packaging design, design strategy, semiotics
duration
sept 2023 — may 2024
Tools
PHOTOSHOP, ILLUSTRATOR, indesign, figma, notion
team
lyndon a, ej d
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intro
Our challenge was to launch Koto Methods as a campaign that aims to reorient the health industry. We needed to create a branding strategy, a strategic position and visual identity that would help the campaign to build towards creating content and direct education resources. The goal was to modernize the current systems of communication and packaging within the health industry, with an initial focus on diabetes. Our aim was to ultimately helping to accelerate the transition of general education of both understanding and supporting those who are experiencing diabetes.
Initial Concepts for Koto's Logo
When we were creating initial concepts for our brand, Koto, we took inspiration from the Japanese musical instrument with movable bridges and 13 strings. We wanted our logo to reflect the curved shape of the wordmark, so we incorporated an arrow and a person into an iconic symbol that could be moved in any direction.
We designed three distinct variations of our logo, each intended for use in different contexts such as large spaces, websites, social media, digital, or print. The rounded shapes and forms of our brand system should be easily recognizable at different touchpoints.
Concept Sketches
Typography
Complementing our logo marks is the Urbanist typeface. Friendly, unique in its designed forms and rounded shapes, but is not inherently corporate, but is constructed to be geometric and accompanied within the packaging and design systems.
Typography
Package Design
Our goal for Koto's packaging was to stray away from the traditional, clinical look of industrial medical packaging. We aimed to develop a more friendly and approachable visual system that simplifies the process of taking medicine and makes it more understandable for diabetics and for wider audience to understand those precautions. We designed the visual system in a way that incorporates minimalist design and typography. This ensures that all touchpoints of the packaging are easy to access and use.
Manual Design + Icon System
We also created a manual system that can be used across all touch points, whether digital or print. This system provides instructions for diabetic individuals and also helps people better understand diabetes in general.
Motion Graphics
Our vision is to transform the conventional, clinical look of medical packaging through the application of motion graphics. The objective is to create a visual system that makes the process of medication intake straightforward, targeting not just individuals with diabetes but a wider audience as well. This system takes into account all necessary precautions.