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Casa del Sol

The Code
of Corojo

Role

Writer

Deliverables

Brand Identity · Packaging · Campaign · Web · Retail

A leaf worth building around.

A new premium cigar brand was entering the market built around a single distinction — a Corojo leaf wrapper, the same leaf used in many of the world's finest cigars, grown and rolled entirely in the Dominican Republic. The brief was to build a brand worthy of that leaf.

The Code of Corojo.

The Corojo leaf isn't just what makes Casa del Sol — it's what the brand believes in. A code of savoring: finding the best way to enjoy the moment, living richly and unhurriedly, the way the leaf itself is grown. Everything followed from that — the identity, the packaging, the product stories, the brand world.

The Code did more than introduce an idea. It established what Casa del Sol believed, how it would speak and what made it different. A complete brand philosophy built from a single product truth.

We Live by a Code — the Casa del Sol manifesto

The brand world unfolds like a field journal — part history, part religion.

The journal wasn't just a prop created for a shoot. We made the object itself, then carried its stories and visual language through the website, point of sale, email and direct mail. A brand world built to outlast any single campaign.

The Casa del Sol journal
The Land
The Leaf
The People

Three expressions.
One code.

Each SKU was another way to share the code and the flavors behind it.

Casa del Sol Clásico Corona
Casa del Sol Crema Cigarillos
Casa del Sol Tropical Cigarillos
Casa del Sol Humi-Pack packaging — Tropical, Crema, and Clásico

A Humi-Pack that holds the moment.

Every Casa del Sol comes sealed in a Humi-Pack — a humidity-controlled wrapper that guarantees freshness from the field to the first light.

Seal

Humidity-controlled Humi-Pack

Color System

Each blend color-coded for instant recognition at retail

The Code
of Corojo.

Client

Casa del Sol

Category

Premium Cigars

Partner

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