The bottle design for Caparaki is adorable and instantly accesssible. The cartoon hero is instantly endearing, and surrounded by doodles conveys the creativity of the designers and the free-flowing thinking of the design team. Coupled with the natural brown of the box, the entire brand experience is kind, approachable and free-spirited, which is brilliant considering the doodles contain so many inside jokes from the team that created it.
Tsikoudia, also often called raki is an alcoholic beverage, a fragrant, grape-based pomace brandy of Cretan origin that contains 40% to 65% alcohol by volume. Tsikoudia is made by distilling of pomace, what remains of grapes pressed in winemaking. The pomace ferments for about six weeks in a tightly-sealed barrel and is then distilled. It is often produced at home in villages throughout Crete, and so the alcohol content varies by producer. Typically each Cretan village has one or two residents who are licensed to distill, and tsikoudia is produced continuously for two or three weeks in late October and early November.
In 2018 we created Caparaki (the combination of the studio name Caparo and the word raki), our first limited edition alcohol product, produced in 160 numbered bottles in total. We shared Caparaki with our clients and friends giving them a special packaging gift to cherish our good moments and to have something to remember. Caparaki is a concept that celebrates craftsmanship. It reflects the studio’s design values by connecting in a lyrical way the essence of our work with the purity of the product.
