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Nº 05 Hookah & Lifestyle 2021

Shisha Stories

Brand programming and product photography for a Delhi-based shisha and lifestyle label — hero blends, packaging-led social tiles and a studio shoot that fed the catalog.

Role

Account Lead, Brand Programming, Product Photography

Year

2021

Location

Delhi, IN

Timeline

Ongoing

Shisha Stories — brand mark on a navy patterned ground.
Hookah & Lifestyle · Hero Shisha Stories
§ 01 · Challenge

The brief.

Shisha Stories is a Delhi shisha label with a catering arm that runs at corporate events as much as at retail. The brief was a comprehensive rebrand built to lift the label from generic-shisha shelf into a premium, considered choice — both for individual buyers and for event procurement.

Shisha is a category where almost every label looks the same on a shelf. The marketing job was to make Shisha Stories visibly different in the time it takes a buyer to scan a shop, and to give event procurement a credible reason to choose this brand for their floor.

§ 02 · Approach

The work.

We led with the packaging — moving the line off generic paper and plastic and onto elegant glass jars, with intricate label work that pulled from the cultural and social register of shisha rather than the genre's neon. The jar itself became the brand's first ad, sitting differently on a shelf and on a coffee table from anything else in the category.

A studio product shoot built the photo library that ran the digital channels — every blend got its own hero shot on a coloured stage, and the calendar moved between exclusive-blend launches like "Summer Dreams" and "Candy Dandy" and the always-on flavour catalog. Account work covered packaging direction, photoshoot conceptualisation, the social calendar and the corporate-events pitch deck that took the brand into procurement conversations.

§ 03 · Outcome
“The packaging refresh shifted the brand's shelf presence from generic into recognisable, the photo library carried the social calendar without re-shoots through multiple seasons, and the brand became a top selection for both retail and corporate event catering across Delhi. ”
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