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CONVIVIO
Choosing the effort
A premium meal kit for people who cook for connection
SVA Masters in Branding (2025)
Developed within the School of Visual Arts Masters in Branding program, this project emerged from Zero to Hero, a workshop led by Alex Center (Center Design), focused on building a new brand from strategic foundation to expressive identity.
The Ritual

For most of human history, cooking has meant more than eating. People gathered to prepare food together. It required time, attention, and participation. The act of cooking has been as much about connection as it was sustenance.

Today, much of life is organized around speed. Convenience has become an expectation, and cooking has increasingly been reframed as something to simplify.

The meal kit category was built on that promise.

Choosing the Effort

The desire to cook has not disappeared. People cook for date nights and dinner parties. They cook to learn a technique, master a recipe, or spend time intentionally. In a convenience culture, effort itself has become meaningful.

While most meal kits exist to expidite, Convivio Convivio sees value in asking people to slow down and participate. Convivio was built for people who choose the effort. Not because cooking should be difficult, but because participation is what makes it worth remembering.

Time as luxury

Convivio presents cooking a social act, not a task. Recipes build mastery, intention becomes a marker of taste, and time spent becomes Time spent becomes part of the value. Convivio  treats attention, effort, and time as something worth savoring.

Role

Brand Concept
Experience Strategy
Narrative Development
Creative Direction

Team

Piyush Bhagat
Dyna Rivera
Dianna Loevner
Lizy Ainsworth

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