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Gelado Ice Creams — Ice cream packaging design & art direction

Client
DIS (PTP DIS)
What we did
Packaging design and creative & art direction.
Two Gelado ice cream boxes stacked in a sunlit niche: Double Dubai in green and black above Double Caramel in brown and gold

A packaging language that communicates flavour quickly and stays unmistakably Gelado across the range.

ZERO11 created the packaging design and led the creative and art direction for Gelado, an ice cream range created for DIS, built around indulgent flavours and a strong retail presence. The aim was a packaging language that communicates flavour quickly, feels contemporary and premium, and stays unmistakably Gelado across the range, from Double Dubai to Double Caramel.

About the client

Gelado is an ice cream range created for DIS, with a portfolio built around indulgent flavours and a strong retail presence.

The challenge was to give the brand a packaging language that could communicate flavour quickly, feel contemporary and premium, and remain unmistakably Gelado across the range.

The brief

Ice cream is an emotional category.

People buy with their eyes long before they read ingredients or product details. Colour, texture, flavour cues and appetite all have to work immediately.

For Gelado, the packaging needed to make indulgence visible at first glance while creating a clear system that could stretch across different flavours and product combinations.

It had to feel premium without becoming distant or overly sophisticated.

Gelado Double Dubai and Double Caramel boxes packed in a retail freezer chest, seen from above
A stack of four Gelado boxes, Double Dubai and Double Caramel alternating, on a stone slab with pistachios, kadaif, chocolate and caramel pieces against a peach wall

The design solution

We built the packaging around bold flavour recognition and strong visual contrast.

The Gelado identity stays consistent across the range, while each product creates its own world through colour, ingredient imagery and flavour-led typography.

For products such as Double Dubai and Double Caramel, the design makes the flavour combination the hero. Pistachio, chocolate, kadaif, caramel and biscuit are presented with enough richness to create appetite, but within a controlled system that keeps the range coherent.

The square format, strong central branding and distinctive colour territories give Gelado a clear presence both individually and as a family.

The result is packaging designed to do exactly what ice cream packaging needs to do.

Make you want it before you have even opened the box.

Gelado Double Dubai and Double Caramel boxes on a green and cream surface with pistachios, chocolate and biscuit crumbs in leaf shadow
Gelado ice cream boxes scattered among pistachios, caramel pieces and a glass on a stone surface in dappled sunlight
A Gelado Double Dubai box with a chocolate-coated ice cream on a stick, resting on a green cloth with scattered pistachios in dappled sunlight

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