Tabasco x Gorpcore Project
The Tabasco × Gorpcore project reimagines Tabasco within contemporary outdoor and adventure culture while maintaining the brand’s recognizable identity. The goal is to create a believable collaboration that positions Tabasco as something people bring with them while hiking, camping, traveling, and exploring. The visual system combines Tabasco’s established colors, typography, packaging, and personality with the functional, rugged aesthetic of gorpcore. Deliverables should demonstrate this concept across packaging, photography, advertising, apparel, gear, and other relevant applications. Photography plays an important role in establishing the campaign through direct flash, saturated colors, grain, candid compositions, and unconventional crops inspired by outdoor editorial imagery. The campaign line, “take flavor further.” connects Tabasco directly to exploration and provides a consistent message across the system. Ultimately, the project should feel like more than Tabasco placed into outdoor imagery; it should establish a cohesive identity where Tabasco naturally becomes part of the outdoor experience.
Inside package
Six skis pictured in proximity using a grid to establish correlation and pattern
Final design
Final Tabasco × Gorpcore campaign design.