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03 — Branding & Product Design

Raw Cane

Raw Cane reimagines sugar syrup as an interactive material, transforming it from a passive ingredient into a tactile and participatory experience. Rooted in the contrast between control and indulgence, the project invites users to engage with sweetness in real time through product, interaction and environment.

Branding Product Design Packaging Spatial Design Material Behaviour

2025 — 2026

Overview

Context

Raw Cane reimagines sugar syrup as an interactive material, transforming it from a passive ingredient into a tactile and participatory experience. Rooted in the contrast between control and indulgence, the project invites users to engage with sweetness in real time through product, interaction and environment.

The system extends beyond packaging into installations and community led experiences, positioning the brand as a design driven identity centred on material behaviour and social interaction.

Intent

This project aims to reconnect users with the origin of sugar by turning consumption into interaction. Through playful engagement, users control shape and experience sweetness in real time.

Syrup fun with friends Raw Cane bottle mockup

Form Exploration

Form exploration through pencil sketches as well as Illustrator to create organic but yet industrial form.

Main bottle and sachet sketches Spatial installation sketch Collective space layout sketch Sachet form sketch Logo exploration sketches

System Response

System components define how sugar is accessed, carried and activated across contexts. Each object introduces a distinct point of interaction, structuring behaviour through use.

Pencil Sketch Neural Material Pass Final Refined Outcomes
Raw Cane main bottle Raw Cane sachet mockup Raw Cane refill Raw Cane sachets

Spatial Experience

Public System

The system extends into public space as a participatory environment. Sugar syrup becomes an active material of engagement and exploration.

Suspended syrup art at Carnaby Street

Collective Space Activation

The installation creates a shared environment that reconnects users with the natural origins of sugar cane through tactile sand based interactions as well as collective spatial engagement.

Collective space sketch

The System

The system operates as a continuous loop between natural origin, designed objects, and collective spatial activation.

Origin

Sugarcane

Designed

Product

Social

Interaction

Public

Space

Shared

Community

loops back to Sugarcane
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