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Case study

Bureau Halm, Zurich

Pale Lab

Packaging for a skincare line with eleven ingredients

Type

Packaging

Year

2025

Services

Packaging, Labels, Art direction

Duration

11 weeks

Pale Lab, An empty bottle viewed from above

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Overview

Bottles and boxes for a small skincare line, with the ingredient list as the design.

The brief

Pale Lab makes five products with short ingredient lists. Their first labels hid the list in tiny type. They wanted honesty to be the design.

What we made

The ingredient list runs the full height of the label in large grotesk type. Everything else on the box is small and quiet.

How it went

The range went into eleven shops, and the boxes were the reason three of them said yes.

Pale Lab, black glass bottle on brown surface
Pale Lab, clear glass bottle with black background

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Results

11

Ingredients, printed large

5

Products in the range

1

Label grid

Pale Lab, black metal tool in close up photography

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In their words

Nobody has to guess what is in the bottle now.

Founder, Pale Lab

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