One Village Coffee has been roasting excellent coffees for a decade in Souderton, Pennsylvania. The association had a bit of a code modernise recently, with a assistance of lifestyle blog The Fresh Exchange. Fresh Exchange designed boxes for One Village’s coffees regulating light and splendid photography and witty hand-written lettering. We venerate collaborations like these. You know what they say: it takes a encampment to pattern a good package.
We asked Director of Sales and Marketing Victoria Perez to explain everything.
Tell us a bit about your company.
One Village Coffee has been roasting specialty coffee for 10 years-it’s a anniversary! Our goal is to bond coffee growers to roasters to coffee drinkers by a receptive coffee. You can ambience a joining to peculiarity in a Villager blend, that does a flattering overwhelming pursuit balancing a cleared Ethiopian and cleared Colombian. You can clarity a joining to stewardship when we see a B Corporation Certification and a infancy womanlike executive care team.
10 years ago, a founders envisioned a Village, desirous by coffee flourishing communities they witnessed on trips to Africa and Honduras. Today, that Village is actively flourishing and joining some-more people to specialty coffee each day.
Your pattern debuted in Jul of 2017. What did it demeanour like before?
Our package used to be a bag. We desired that a bag was compostable so we kept that element. We have found one of a best entrance points into specialty coffee is training coffee lovers a judgment that coffees can ambience opposite from one another. We wanted to pattern a package front that now communicated that a coffee on shelf was going to ambience opposite than a coffee sitting subsequent to it. We incited to photography. Coffee is beautiful. The informed images of opposite coffee cups helps new specialty coffee enthusiasts comprehend they can have fun perplexing opposite coffees approach some-more effectively than a difference ever could.
Mike Gilger of The Fresh Exchange designed your packaging. Tell us some-more about that collaboration!
When meditative about this project, we literally called Mike and said, “Hey, could we fly into Philadelphia tomorrow for a print shoot?” Mike’s response? He hopped on a plane. He spent over dual days true with us photographing and still managed to stay adult late celebration booze by a campfire and desirable us with life stories. Mike is a partial of a Village, and being around him reminds us about a tellurian tie during a heart of a identity. Oh, and not usually did he govern a ideal extemporaneous print shoot, he also was a striking engineer of a box and a stream logo.
What coffee information do we share on a package?
Each package facilities a name of a coffee as good as a extended ambience difficulty we have reserved to it (think red/white/sparkling or IPA/lager/porter). We also underline a records we taste. Our single-origin boxes underline a lot some-more detail, as we know they aim determined coffee enthusiasts some-more than a other coffees. Those boxes underline contribution like fry date, estimate method, and start specifics.
Curious about those ambience categories?
Yes, approbation we are.
Check them out below.
Classic: Those normal dim roasts we grew adult celebration in coffee shops and grandma’s kitchen. Brews adult good in any device, from a season pot during a bureau to a French press during home. These blends are good with divert sugar.
Modern: Creative blends showcasing a signature character of a specialty spit who combined them. These blends tend to be offset and flexible, holding adult in a season pot while tasting particular as a palm pour. Try these black.
Single Origin: Coffee from a singular producer, farm, or commune roasted easily adequate that a fundamental nuances of a coffee bean itself can be detected (similar to booze grapes). These are good for those longing a graphic ambience experience. Try these black as a palm pour.
Where is a bag manufactured?
The bag is done by Pacific Bag Incorporated and a box is done by Graphic Packaging, Inc. Both are warehoused locally that means we have been means to entice a teams to Our Village and bond over cups of a really coffee they are packaging.
Any special facilities on a bag/branding?
Those overwhelming photos on a behind of a box? Those are us! Those photos were taken during a homes of a executive care team. Our hands are a ones pouring and brewing a coffee. Our Director of Coffee was a one pouring a latte art for a front of a box. We feel connected to that package and wish that helps a fans bond to us.
Is a package recyclable/compostable?
The bag is compostable and a box is recyclable. The box is done with recycled element by a association who plants some-more trees than it cuts down.
Where is it now available?
You can squeeze One Village Coffee directly on a website (which we recommend, since we fry to order) or during many internal grocery stores opposite a nation.
Nice Package is a underline array by Zachary Carlsen on Sprudge. Read more Nice Package here.
