ALTAI  

Concept, Name, Identity, Product and Package Design, Website, Print, Apparel, Beyond.   

We created the Alai brand from the ground up for a new firm specializing in artisanal low-dose cannabis edibles.

We built the brand from a simple premise: Cannabis has been in use by humanity for over 25 centuries.

ANCIENT FUTURE STORYBOOK: Our research led us to a remote mountain range between Mongolia and Russia. Discovered high within in the Altai mountains was a female mummy, perfectly preserved for over 2,500 years, covered in ornate tattoos, buried with a caribou headdress and a vile containing cannabis. Using mythical imagery of the mountains, symbology of Pazyryk society, and animals of the region, we created  a surreal  world called Altai. Altai is a world of beauty, healing and transport- part ancient past, part culinary and scientific future. 

Client: Altai / Concept, Art Direction, Name, Identity, Design Direction: Katrina Crawford, Mark Bashore / Design Team:  Orlando Portillo + Estudio yy, Eliot Lim, Koji Minami, Hum Creative, Raul Villalobos / Original illustrations, linoprints and artwork: Estudio yy, Raul Villalobos, Katrina Crawford