We’re excited to share that we’ve been selected as the official design partner for the 2025 RGD Branding Awards! This project gave us the rare chance to create design for design’s sake—pushing creative boundaries while crafting a campaign that encourages designers to put their best work forward.
Our concept, “Show Your Perspective,” became the foundation of the campaign’s visual language, serving as a metaphor for the unique ways designers see the world. From there, we built out a flexible brand system encompassing typography, motion, 3D, and more.
There’s much more to come, but for now—the call for entries is officially open. Let’s see your perspective.
Excited to finally share one of our favorite projects from this year—Passport Pantry! This Toronto-based granola brand is reinventing the breakfast staple with globally inspired flavors and a commitment to clean, nourishing ingredients.
We partnered with Passport Pantry to craft a brand identity and packaging design system that brings their bold vision to life. From playful illustrations to travel-inspired design cues, the result is a brand that feels as adventurous and inviting as the flavors themselves. Check out the full case study now live!
Our packaging design work for UMYUM Foods has just been featured on one of the go-to packaging design websites, The Dieline. In a category often dominated by green and neutrals, ZAK’s approach brought a vibrant, playful energy to plant-based packaging. Stoked to see our work for UMYUM resonating with people out there!
ZAK is pleased to have some new work up on our website, featuring two exciting projects we recently completed.
The first is Powerhouse by PACK Builders, a real estate developer in Vancouver, who partnered with ZAK to develop the naming, brand identity, and strategy for an innovative pre-fabricated laneway home system.
The second is TIEMPOS, an emerging Canadian brand is on a mission to craft top-tier performance running apparel, carefully designed to help you reach your maximum TIEMPOS.
A bit of exciting news from the ZAK team! As part of the 2024 Vancouver Design Fest, Zia and Kristian from ZAK will be speaking at Type Brigade 52.
The team will be speaking about how ZAK approaches typography as one piece of a visual puzzle, something that can be used in bold and image-centric ways, or in more subtle and textural ways. Always asking the question, “how can this help tell a story”, ZAK has a specific viewpoint on type and the role it plays in visual communication.
We look forward to seeing you there!
We were thrilled to wake up on this Friday and see that our packaging design work for UMYUM was featured on Brand New’s Friday Likes. At ZAK, we typically start our day with a cup of coffee and checking out the happenings of the design world on Brand New. Always a funny moment when you see your own work without you knowing!
You can check out the post here.
RSS3 is a Web3 company, and one of our favourite new clients we’ve been working with over the past year. We’ve been helping them build their vision for the future of the internet. RSS3 is focused on building a decentralized network, indexing and structuring open information in order to make it accessible and valuable for the next Twitter, Google, and OpenAI.
We’ve worked with them on a variety of pieces, including brand identity, website design, 3D assets, motion design, infographics, an NFT project, and more. They’re always pushing the boundaries of what’s possible and it’s a pleasure to be work with them everyday. You can read more about the new brand on their blog as well!
They’ve just recently launched their biggest project to day, the Alpha Mainnet. They’ve been working on bringing this to their Web3 audience, and you can find out more about it on their blog. Congrats to their team, and we look forward to seeing future iterations of the mainnet and how it affects the open web!
Look out for a case study in the near future!
Super excited to finally be able to share one of our favourite brand identity and packaging design projects we’ve worked on lately – UMYUM! UMYUM is a Vancouver based food company focused on providing a variety of products at the highest of quality. They focus on creating beautiful food experiences that just happen to be plant-based.
ZAK was brought on to work alongside the UMYUM team to refresh the brand strategy, brand identity, and packaging design system to stand out within a competitive plant-based market.
Make sure to check-out the case study here!
It’s always exciting to wake up and see our work featured on a blog everyone knows and loves – this time being The Dieline. We’ve been working with KOKOMO for a number of years now, and it’s really nice to see them get some recognition for all the hard work they’ve put into building such a great company.
You can read the whole article on The Dieline, or see the entirety of the work on our case study!
Some new brand and packaging work up on our site for one of Vancouver’s most influential plant-based restaurants! KOKOMO offers nourishing, plant-based foods that are inspired by the sun and created for you.
We worked alongside KOKOMO to re-establish their brand identity and just about everything that goes with it. Packaging design, website design, store signage and hoarding – you name it, we had a hand in designing it.
Peep the full case-study here!