Diligent Farmer

Cultivating Sincerity through the Four Seasons

Diligent Farmer

Diligent Farmer is a brand of fresh rice and multi-grain products grown, harvested, and sundried on the reclaimed land in Haechang Bay, Goheung, Jeollanam-do. Haechang Bay's reclaimed land, with a good amount of sunlight, is a representative grain-producing area boasting an average annual yield of 12,000 tons. Diligent Farmer cultivates more than 60 kinds of functional rice, including healthy red rice, Khorasan wheat, brown rice, and colored multiple grains, and supplies them to individual consumers and wholesalers.

The project's main task was to express the core value of Diligent Farmer, which is the product cultivated by farmers healthily and sincerely in nature, with a distinct brand identity. YNL Design developed illustrations for each season by using the scenery of the rice paddies with crops growing and the image of farmers, intending to capture the unique brand story of Diligent Farmers. Primarily, we focused on expressing the sincerity of farmers who cultivated crops in a nature-friendly way in various functional crop packages such as healthy red rice, Khorasan wheat, and brown rice.

YNL Design designated the scenery of rice paddies with products growing as the central brand identity concept. We built a brand identity unique to Diligent Farmer by capturing the image of a farmer who cultivates and harvests rice, which is the essential product, in the story of 'Four Seasons and Time of Diligent Farmer.' Inspired by the shape of 'winnow' used by traditional Korean farmers to sort grains, we developed a logo unique to Diligent Farmer with a traditional and warm feeling. The hand-drawn style logo means 'grains cultivated by farmers with sincerity and effort,' and the shape of ripe rice is used as a decorative element to convey brand identity. The 12 package illustrations, designed along with the logo, depict the farmer growing crops against the rice paddy background to express the farmer's sincerity. We developed a packaging system differentiated from other products by describing the flow of seasons and time in various colors.