Branding, Packaging & Web

Sea & Believe

Sea & Believe makes plant-based seafood out of wild Atlantic seaweed grown off the coast of Ireland. Fish cakes, goujons, cod fillets and a burger, all grown from the very thing fish eat.

The Sea & Believe plant-based fish cakes pouch, cut out and shown on its own: two golden fish cakes with a sprig of dill and a lemon wedge, under the otter roundel.
Project
Sea & Believe, plant-based seafood
Role
Brand identity, packaging system, web design
Scope
Logo, four retail SKUs, marketing site
Tools
Illustrator, Photoshop, Figma

An otter, because otters eat it too

The logo puts a sea otter holding a frond of kelp inside a circle split between sky and water. People already adore otters, and kelp is exactly what the product is made of, so one mark carries both halves of the story all by itself.

“Nourishment from the sea” arcs over the top of every pack. It's the one line that needs to read at arm's length through a freezer door.

The Sea & Believe roundel: a sea otter floating on its back holding a piece of kelp, set in a circle of blue water and green fronds with the brand name wrapped around it.
One mark, both halves. The animal says ocean, the kelp says what's in the bag.

Show the food first

Plant-based seafood earns trust through the eyes first. People believe a claim once the thing in the bag looks like the thing on the label, so every pack leads with a real photograph of the product and keeps the copy short.

Four SKUs, one shelf block. The same wave pattern, the same badge row along the bottom carrying low fat, high protein, low salt and antioxidants, and a different ground color per flavor so they read as a family from across the aisle and as distinct products up close. The burger takes its own shape with intention, because a tray behaves differently from a pouch.

Sea & Believe plant-based fish cakes pouch on a pale ground, showing two golden fish cakes with a sprig of dill and a row of nutrition badges.
Fish cakes. The product photo wins them over, and the badges answer the next question.
Sea & Believe plant-based cod fillets pouch on a rust ground, showing battered fillets over a wave pattern.
Cod fillets. Same architecture, different ground. The family holds together while each pack keeps its own color.
Sea & Believe plant-based goujons pouch on a lavender ground, with goujons in a paper wrap.
Goujons. Quotation marks around “goujons” throughout, because the brand is honest and proud about being plant-based.
Sea & Believe Irish seaweed burger in a clear-lidded tray on a blue ground, showing the burger built into a bun with lettuce and tomato.
The burger. A tray gets a serving suggestion to spark the appetite.

Room to tell the whole story

A pouch gets about four words of attention. A website gets as long as someone wants to stay, so the site holds the rest of the story: where the seaweed is grown, what it does for the ocean, and why a protein made from kelp compares beautifully with the fish it replaces.

The store locator is one of the most important pages here. With a frozen product, the last step is showing people exactly which freezer to stand in front of.

A Sea & Believe web page headed 'Better fish for a better planet', with four columns on sequestering carbon, providing habitat for fish, mitigating ocean acidification and providing jobs to local fishermen, over a photograph of kelp and sea otters.
The claim, itemized. Four specific environmental effects, each one concrete and easy to trust.
A page reading 'All the benefits of fish without the fish', beside a four-up grid: plant based, rich in protein, flakes like fish, cruelty free.
The four objections. Taste, protein, texture, ethics, answered in the order people raise them.
A section headed 'Unrivaled nutrition and taste, powered by Irish seaweed' next to a photograph of a sea otter floating in kelp.
Where it comes from. Named waters and a named process. Specifics are what make a food claim trustworthy.
A green page reading 'We believe that delicious food comes with a clean conscience', with a paragraph on seaweed aquaculture and a 'Why We Do It' button.
The mission page. One sentence you could repeat to a friend, then the detail underneath for anyone who wants it.
A 'Find Sea & Believe in a store near you' page listing four stores with addresses and phone numbers.
Where to buy it. The humble page that turns every other page into a purchase.
A spread headed 'Nature did its part. We just found a way to turn it into delectable, flakey goodness.' beside a photograph of kelp growing in shallow coastal water.
Sourcing, in plain words.
Sea & Believe brand collateral shown on a desktop monitor with printed pieces fanned in front of it.
The system together.