Packaging & Generative AI

Rev7 Clean Ketone Energy Bar

A clean ketone energy bar that needed a full photography library before launch. I built the entire thing with generative AI, no studio, no shoot day.

Role
Art Director
Client
Ketone Labs
Year
2025
Discipline
Packaging, Art Direction, AI
All four Rev7 flavor wrappers on color-blocked ingredient spreads

Overview

Rev7 is a clean ketone energy bar across four flavors. The brand needed packaging and a complete image library to sell, both product renders and lifestyle photography, with no time or budget for a traditional shoot.

I art directed the pack system, then directed a generative AI pipeline to produce every frame end to end.

Salted caramel bar cross-section with benefit badges on yellowChocolate almond brownie cross-section with benefit badges on blue
Strawberry shortcake cross-section with benefit badges on pinkChocolate peanut butter pie cross-section with benefit badges on purple
Climber eating a Rev7 bar on a cliff at golden hourRev7 bar on a rock beside a beach campfireHiker crossing a suspension bridge with a Rev7 bar in a hip pack

My Role

Art Director. I owned the packaging design across all four flavors and the entire photography direction. Where most projects hand the shoot to a photographer, here I directed the model the same way: brief, reference, review, refine.

The Challenge

A new brand needs photography before it can sell. A real shoot across four flavors and three lifestyle worlds runs into serious money and weeks of scheduling. We had neither.

The risk with AI is that it returns something close-but-wrong: a pack that reads incorrectly, a scene that feels generic. That fails a brand.

Rev7 bar on a rooftop yoga mat at city sunsetRev7 bar in a runner's tights pocket on a rainy city streetCyclist holding a torn-open Rev7 bar under a canal underpass
Hands tearing open a salted caramel Rev7 barWoman on a yoga mat at dusk under string lightsRev7 bar resting on a rolled yoga mat at beach sunrise

The Approach

I treated the AI shoot like a real one. I built prompt and reference systems per flavor so the pack read correctly in every frame, then directed three lifestyle worlds the way I would brief a photographer: extreme outdoors, urban performance, and recovery.

The packaging stayed the constant. The AI handled the set, the light, and the talent. I art directed every frame to a brand standard instead of settling for whatever the model returned first.

The Outcome

A complete, on-brand image library across four flavors and three worlds, produced in a fraction of the time and cost of a studio shoot. The system is repeatable for every new flavor that ships.

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