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Case Study

CIRKAA Snacks

From a bicycle wheel to a brand system — a 25-year Ahmedabad khakhra legacy, given an identity, a voice, and a digital home.

Brand Strategy Brand Identity Brand Positioning UI/UX Figma

Branding · Brand Launch

The Brief

A family recipe, outgrowing its kitchen.

Who

CIRKAA is a heritage snack house from Ahmedabad, handcrafting khakhra and namkeen since 1999. What began with one woman, one rolling pin, and one bicycle has grown into a family business ready for its first retail mart.

The Ask

CIRKAA needed more than a logo. It needed a positioning strategy, a visual identity system built to scale across packaging and retail, and a digital experience — designed first in Figma — that could carry the brand online with the same warmth it has in person.

The Insight

Where every circle tells a story.

Two circles built this business, long before it had a name: the wheel of a bicycle that carried khakhras through Ahmedabad's streets, and the perfect round of a khakhra itself, rolled by hand every single day.

That repetition — the same shape, made new each time — became the foundation of the identity. Not a brand invented from scratch, but one found inside the story CIRKAA was already living.

The name itself carries the idea: circle, craft, and continuity, folded into one word. The identity system had to protect that meaning at every size — from a packaging stamp to a retail wall.

Visual Identity

Calm, warm, and intentional.

The mark is built entirely from circular geometry — arcs, petal forms, and radial symmetry — with intricate patterns inspired by traditional Gujarati craftsmanship. It never competes for attention. It anchors the system.

Deep Clay Red
#D93727
Warm Ivory
#EDDBA7
Soft Sand
#ECE0C4
Muted Terracotta
#A85C4C
Warm Grey
#808080
Made By Hand

Real people. Real process.

Lifestyle and merchandise direction — tone of voice carried into every touchpoint, from the kneading table to the tote bag.

Digital Presence

Designed first in Figma.

The digital experience was prototyped end-to-end in Figma before a single line of code — clean layouts, generous white space, and the brand pattern used subtly, never overwhelming the product.

View the Figma Prototype See CIRKAA on Instagram
What Shipped

From story to system.

The same circle, rolled by hand for twenty-five years — now a system that scales without losing the hand that made it.

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