Work — Casella Family Brands · BFS Studio, Ho Chi Minh City

[ yellow tail ]— Tết 2026

Project details

Client
Casella Family Brands
Industry
Spirits & Wine
Deliverable
4-panel gift carton · 3 routes presented, 1 produced
Year
2025
Credits
BFS Studio
The Tết 2026 gift carton artwork — the yellow tail kangaroo and the Hop arc on the brand yellow
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THE BRIEF

[ yellow tail ] owns two things and almost nothing else: the ’Roo and the Hop, plus the square brackets its name sits inside. A Tết 2026 gift carton had to feel like a Vietnamese new-year wish without borrowing the usual red-and-blossom vocabulary, and without inventing an asset the brand does not own.

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WHAT WE DID

The logo is a name held inside brackets, so we opened them and let four Vietnamese wishes fill the blank, each closed by the same word — HƠN, “more”. The brand’s own punctuation became the wish machine. Then the Hop stopped being a mark and became architecture: one continuous arc crossing all four faces, so a row of cartons on a shelf reads as a single wave.

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OUTCOME

Delivered as the Tết 2026 gift carton for the Vietnam market, built from the brand’s own bracket punctuation instead of seasonal ornament.

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THE WORK

The ’Roo — the brand kangaroo drawn in black on yellow
The ’Roo
The bracket lockup — the brand name held inside square brackets
The bracket lockup
The Hop — the brand arc drawn as a continuous wave in white on yellow
The Hop
Brand book spread — the purpose page
Purpose
Brand book spread — Our ’Roo, the mascot and its rules
Our ’Roo
Brand book spread — Our Hop, the arc and its construction
Our Hop
Brand book spread — how to crop the Hop, with approved and rejected crops
How to crop the Hop
Pack face in yellow carrying the wish for more joy
VUI VẺ HƠN — more joy
Pack face in cyan carrying the wish for more luck
MAY MẮN HƠN — more luck
Pack face in orange carrying the wish for more prosperity
TÀI LỘC HƠN — more prosperity
Pack face in red carrying the wish for more happiness
HẠNH PHÚC HƠN — more happiness
The Hop arc running unbroken across all four faces of the carton
The Hop, crossing all four faces
Route 01-A flat artwork — the ’Roo inside a collage of shimmering gold pattern
Route 01-A — [ VIBRANT CELEBRATION ]
Route 01-A in scene — the finished cartons standing together
The produced carton
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( 05 )

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