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California's Sparkling

California's Sparkling proudly declares: Urban History's Got Taste!

The brand promotes healthy lifestyle and aims to capture the spirit and create awareness about street culture of the beachside towns of Southern California.

White can of soda with an illustration of a surfer
thee cans on teal background
White multipacks opening
multipack under water
Three white cans in the sand
single surfer design can against blue background
animated surfer design
single rollerskater can against blue background
animated roller skater design
single skater can on blue background
flat skater can design
poster wall

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About This Project

Client

California's Sparkling

Year

2018

Services

BrandingStrategyPackagingVenture

Tools

Adobe IllustratorAdobe PhotoshopAdobe After EffectsCinema 4D

If you have ever been to California, you must have noticed how strong street culture is over there. It is like jumping into a completely different world of mural art, skate parks, dancers jamming in the streets, 70s vibe rollerbladers carrying boomboxes on their shoulders, surfers with their long sun kissed hair... Ever wondered how come California gets to be so saturated with these ever interesting and edgy characters? California's Sparkling Waters will open all the secrets for you, you will have to use their illustrated cans as a key.

This concept showcases three cans of naturally flavoured sparkling water, each of them represents one character typical for Californian urban scene. These characters became a dominant part of culture, they define recognisability of the state. The concept is meant to empower California’s urban culture and create awareness for those who doesn’t understand it and would love to know more about how it became a signature of California.

California's Sparkling Water introduces not only edgy characters, but edgy flavours as well, according to the type of character. This way California's Sparkling Water manifests that "Urban Culture's Got Taste"! It's a taste of "Surfers' Sea Salt & Ginger Adventures", "Rollerbladers' Orange & Bubbles Boombox Beats" and "Skaters' Lime & Ice Cubes Curves". Product line is easily extendable to more cans, edgy flavours and edgy characters to cover Cali's street culture fully.

Each of the tasty looking illustrated cans has a digital trigger embedded, which can be activated through a mobile device. Just like that every can opens up a thorough documentary study of each type of signature characters of California’s street culture.