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Bulba Kraft

Visual identity for a premium fast-casual brand redefining French fries through craft, culture, and design.

Bulba Kraft logo in white over a close-up of golden French fries

Challenge

Build a visual identity for a fast-casual fries brand that sits naturally alongside heritage craft labels, not generic fast-food chains. Rooted in Slavic folk motifs, the system had to scale seamlessly from a single food truck to full packaging.

Instead of loud fast-food tropes, I turned the simple potato fry into a cultural icon. Blending warmth, tradition, and refined design into everyday food.

Solution

A Slavic folk ornament, reduced to a crown of fries. The potato, treated as the true queen of root vegetables.

Sketch: a Slavic folk ornament turning into the crown of fries

From a simple fry to a symbol of quality: the crown motif ties the entire identity together, making the brand instantly recognizable.

The crown of fries grows out of a single Slavic ornament, so the mark stays recognizable from signage to a social avatar. It comes in three brand colors: yellow, navy and burgundy. Each works on its own.

  • Bulba Kraft primary logo in navy
  • Bulba Kraft logo in gold
  • Bulba Kraft logo in dark royal blue
  • Bulba Kraft logo in deep red
Bulba Kraft light box sign with the logo on a white wall
Bulba Kraft Instagram profile on a phone

Brand guidelines

A short guidelines book keeps the system consistent after launch: the logo and its variations, minimal sizes, the color palette and typography.

  • Brand guidelines cover: Bulba Kraft Brand Guidelines on navy
  • Guidelines page: the brand logo and its construction
  • Guidelines page: additional logo variations on red, navy and gold
  • Guidelines page: minimal logo sizes for digital and print
  • Guidelines page: the colour palette

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Approach

I started from the product, not from fast-food clichés. The fry got a folk-ornament crown, the palette stayed tight, and the rules stayed simple. The same identity holds up on a food truck, on packaging and in a single Instagram post.

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