Branding
Packaging
Merch
Web Design
Café de Contrabando Brand Universe
Client
Café de Contrabando
Role
Designer, Illustrator, Art Direction
Year
2026
Deliverables
Branding, Packaging, Social Media, Merchandising, Comics
Café de Contrabando, Coffee with a record
A Costa Rican specialty coffee brand that treats good coffee like a classified operation. I created the brand end to end: concept, identity, a black-and-white comic universe, the content system, and the Shopify store. The joke is played completely straight: customs reports, forensic analysis, and interrogations, all for a bag of beans.
Comics
Café de Contrabando is where my two practices meet: ten years of brand and advertising design, and a long-term commitment to comics and illustration. It's a brand with a point of view, a cast of characters, and a clear place in a category where nobody else is telling stories.