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Carreto Concepts Design Studio
Carreto Concepts Design Studio
Mexico
Magic Vegan: The Power to Transform
October 18, 2026
Other Not Published Agency 2025
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Magic Vegan: The Power to Transform

Magic Vegan was born from a specific gap: its founder, a vegetarian and food engineer, could not find supplements that simultaneously met his expectations for taste, texture, and quality. The 2025 project needed to translate that technical standard into a brand prepared to compete within the global premium segment, with a contemporary identity capable of communicating natural origin, reliability, and performance without losing personality. The opportunity was to build a distinctive narrative around plant-based nutrition, one capable of generating recognition before consumers even read the product’s functional information.

The visual strategy found its core in Mexican culture and in an unexpected figure for the category: the axolotl. Its regenerative ability becomes a metaphor for transformation, resilience, and personal evolution, while the narrative “The Ancestral Guardian: The Eternal Axolotl” connects it to Xólotl and a pre-Hispanic universe that adds depth to the positioning. From there, the jaguar, eagle, and Quetzalcóatl operate as symbolic identities for different flavors, associating mocha with power and mysticism, double chocolate with vision and dominance, and chocolate bronze with creation and renewal. The portfolio gains a cast of characters capable of turning a functional protein supplement into a recognizable and collectible experience.

The packaging translates this mythology into high-impact visual codes. Magenta, violet, and green create an intense palette associated with energy, nature, and vitality, while large-scale illustrations dominate the front of bags and containers as genuine brand assets. The identity extends consistently across bottles, shakers, apparel, tote bags, caps, outdoor advertising, and physical spaces, proving that the system can move beyond the package without losing its character. The logo also includes vertical, horizontal, circular, and symbol-only versions, allowing it to adapt across different scales and applications.

The project’s value emerges from the convergence of performance, culture, and visual differentiation. Magic Vegan can communicate natural ingredients, in-house production, and quality control from a territory that feels less clinical and far more memorable. Mexican symbolism organizes the storytelling; color strengthens recognition; and the guardians differentiate flavors while allowing the universe to expand without rebuilding it from scratch. The result is a plant-based nutrition brand with enough presence to compete on shelf, in the gym, and across digital environments, giving the product’s promise of transformation a visual identity of its own.

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