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Case study · Packaging

K-inam: a food brand, pack by pack.

K-inam is Kudumbashree’s food brand: pasta, malts, snacks and powders, many made with technology from national research institutes. We designed its packaging as a student team incubated at LEAD Business Incubator, LEAD College.

Client
Kudumbashree (K-inam), through LEAD Business Incubator
Industry
FMCG & packaging
When
November–December 2025
What we did
Packaging design, a system for the product range, print-ready artwork
Eight K-inam packs from the final print files: Millet Muesli, Banana Flour, Mango Fruit Bar, Tutti Frutti, Banana Pasta, Mixed Fruit Bar, Millet Malt and Floraw

The brief

Kudumbashree’s product brief listed 26 items: flat-bottom pouches in two sizes with tear-off zips, gift boxes and stickers. Every pack had to carry a lot: the product name in Malayalam, Arabic and English, nutrition and ingredient panels, storage and allergen notes, and a QR code, without looking crowded.

What we made

Print-ready, die-lined artwork for more than a dozen products, among them banana flour, banana pasta, fruit bars, tutti frutti, millet malt, millet muesli, turmeric powder and arrowroot powder, plus a gift box and a kit. Each product gets its own colour and character, while the K-inam mark and a shared layout keep the range together on a shelf. Most packs went through two to four rounds of changes with the product teams.

The print file

Print-ready artwork for the K-inam Banana Flour 340 g pouch, laid out flat with die lines, gussets and measurements
Banana Flour, 340 g pouch: the print-ready file, with die lines and gussets

How it worked

What happened next

Five of the products were shown at the K-inam launch. On 18 January 2026 the Malayalam daily Deshabhimani wrote about the packaging, under the headline “Attractive K-inam packets; behind them, ‘Polaroid Dosa’”.

Deshabhimani newspaper cutting of 18 January 2026 about the K-inam packaging and Polaroid Dosa
Deshabhimani, 18 January 2026
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