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A sample card that sold itself at a stall

Harishkumar MProduct Designer & Developer
A sample card that sold itself at a stall, 1 of 1

A stall full of bakery owners does not have time to read an ingredient list. Reshmaa needed her microgreen powder understood in the time it takes someone to walk past a table. She had already done the real work, proper research, a real product ready to sell. What she needed was a way to make a bakery owner actually stop and pick it up. So the card became a small four-panel story instead of a spec sheet. A plain, sad-looking cake meets Microgreen Man, who sprinkles the powder over it, and it turns into a decorated, satisfied version of itself, icing and sprinkles included, a full transformation across three panels. On the inside right, a real sample packet is stuck onto the card itself, small enough to try on a single bake at home 🌱 The story does the explaining a paragraph would have had to do anyway, that a spoon of this powder can lift a plain bake into something worth photographing, on cakes, matcha, chutney, podi, chocolates, whatever a bakery already makes. The sample lets someone test that claim themselves instead of taking Reshma's word for it. On the day of the stall, orders came in. A few bakery owners messaged Reshma directly to place theirs. A few messaged me too, asking who designed the card. A good sample proves the product works. A good card gives someone a reason to actually try the sample in the first place. #printdesign

Uyir Ootam​"Some designs leave you genuinely amazed, and this card is a perfect example. Going into this project, I had no idea how to make my stall stand out to the crowd, but Harish made it effortless. Unlike many designers I've worked with, he has a rare knack for grasping a vision instantly, I gave him just a single line of instruction, and he delivered a high impact, creative design on a tight budget and quick turnaround."