Deeksha
The Founder
Deeksha
Founder & Designer, Black Lotus

Editorial-minimal design, engineered end to end. From brand to build, one studio, one standard.

Deeksha
The Founder
Deeksha
Founder & Designer, Black Lotus

Editorial-minimal design, engineered end to end. From brand to build, one studio, one standard.

DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT PROPOSAL

DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT PROPOSAL

BLACK LOTUS X

MAMMA CARE

BLACK LOTUS

X

MAMMA CARE

A proposal to build Mamma Care into the Ayurvedic care brand families recognise, trust, and ask for by name - research, strategy, packaging, and a digital home.

A proposal to build Mamma Care into the Ayurvedic care brand families recognise, trust, and ask for by name - research, strategy, packaging, and a digital home.

A proposal to build Mamma Care into the Ayurvedic care brand families recognise, trust, and ask for by name - research, strategy, packaging, and a digital home.

Brand Audit

Creating a brand that customers love.

Creating a brand that customers love.

The pattern is consistent: Indian families pay a premium for Ayurvedic care they can trust, but they decide in seconds, on a shelf or a phone screen. When every brand claims “natural,” design is what makes genuine Ayurveda believable.

The pattern is consistent: Indian families pay a premium for Ayurvedic care they can trust, but they decide in seconds, on a shelf or a phone screen. When every brand claims “natural,” design is what makes genuine Ayurveda believable.

23M+

babies born in India every year, a

customer base that renews itself

~2×

the mother & baby care market is

projected to roughly double this decade

AYUSH

the Ayurveda & natural segment is the

fastest-growing corner of personal care

AYUSH

the Ayurveda & natural segment is the

fastest-growing corner of personal care

Good products.
Under-told story.

Three gaps are quietly capping growth — each one fixable, and each one part of this proposal.

A name in a crowded namescape

The shelf is crowded with “Mama / Mother” names and “natural” claims Mamaearth, Mother Sparsh, Mothercare. Mamma Care's genuine Ayurvedic roots are its edge, but that story isn't yet sharpened into something competitors can't copy.

Packaging at parity, not premium

Shoppers judge safety and authenticity from the pack in under 3 seconds. Premium Ayurveda has a proven visual language — Kama Ayurveda, Forest Essentials — and today's shelf presence blends with local competitors instead of standing beside them.

No owned digital home

Selling only through marketplaces and Instagram means renting the customer relationship — no direct margin, no customer data, no place where the full brand story lives and converts.

One engagement, four connected pillars.

One engagement, four connected pillars.

Each pillar feeds the next: research shapes strategy, strategy shapes packaging, and everything lands on the website.

The Foundation

SERVICE 01 - Market & Consumer Research

SERVICE 01 - Market & Consumer Research

Competitor teardowns, mother interviews and a positioning white-space map so every choice is evidence-led.

Creating the skeleton

SERVICE 02 - Brand Strategy & Naming

Positioning, brand architecture and a rigorous keep-evolve-rename decision on the name itself.

Implementing the vision

SERVICE 03 - Packaging System

A scalable pack design system benchmarked against international brands, built for shelf and screen.

The Showdown

SERVICE 04 - Website & Digital Home

SERVICE 04 - Website & Digital Home

An editorial, conversion-ready site designed and developed by the same team, end to end.

PILLAR 01 — MARKET & CONSUMER RESEARCH

PILLAR 01 — MARKET & CONSUMER RESEARCH

Decisions backed by evidence, not taste.

Decisions backed by evidence, not taste.

Before a single design choice, we map the battlefield: who Mamma Care competes with, what mothers actually value, and where the unclaimed space is.

Competitor teardown

8–10 brands audited — Mamaearth, Mother Sparsh, Kama Ayurveda, Forest Essentials, Himalaya and more — across name, pack, price, claims and channels.

Mother-first research

Structured interviews and surveys with mothers in your target segments: what builds trust, what triggers first purchase, what earns repurchase.

Pricing & channel analysis

Where the margin lives — marketplace vs. D2C vs. retail — and where Mamma Care can price with confidence.

White-space positioning map

A visual map of the category showing exactly where Mamma Care can stand alone rather than compete on noise.

PILLAR 02 — BRAND STRATEGY & NAMING

PILLAR 02 — BRAND STRATEGY & NAMING

A name and a story worth remembering.

A name and a story worth remembering.

Mamma Care sits at a powerful intersection — Ayurvedic wisdom, modern care — in a namescape crowded with Mama- and Mother- brands. We pressure-test the name honestly, then sharpen or evolve it with full legal and linguistic diligence.

Positioning & brand promise

One sentence the whole company can stand behind — Ayurveda made trustworthy and modern, the promise families repeat to each other.

Name: keep, evolve or rename

Scored evaluation of the current name plus curated alternatives — trademark screening, domain and multilingual checks included.

Brand architecture

How product lines, ranges and future launches relate — so the brand scales without becoming a patchwork.

Verbal identity & story

Tagline, tone of voice, packaging copy principles and the founding story told the way premium brands tell it.

What you walk away with: a brand strategy book — positioning, name decision, architecture and voice — that every future agency, hire or printer can execute from.

What you walk away with: a brand strategy book — positioning, name decision, architecture and voice — that every future agency, hire or printer can execute from.

PILLAR 03 — PACKAGING SYSTEM

PILLAR 03 — PACKAGING SYSTEM

Packaging that holds an international shelf.

Packaging that holds an international shelf.

Not one-off labels — a design system. Benchmarked against Mustela, Aveeno and Pigeon, engineered for Indian retail shelves and 100-pixel marketplace thumbnails alike.

Structure & material direction

Bottle, jar, tube and carton recommendations that feel premium in hand while protecting unit economics.

Scalable label system

A master layout with clear range logic — colour, typography, and herb & ingredient storytelling that flexes across every current and future SKU.

Trust & compliance layer

AYUSH certifications, formulation notes, real customer testimonials and the heritage story — placed where they convert doubt into purchase.

Shelf-tested, print-ready

Mockups tested at shelf distance and thumbnail size, then dielines and print-ready files with printer coordination through production.

What you walk away with: a complete packaging design system plus production-ready artwork for the launch SKUs — built to look at home next to global brands.

What you walk away with: a complete packaging design system plus production-ready artwork for the launch SKUs — built to look at home next to global brands.

PILLAR 04 — WEBSITE & DIGITAL HOME

PILLAR 04 — WEBSITE & DIGITAL HOME

A digital home that earns the sale.

A digital home that earns the sale.

An editorial, fast, mobile-first website — designed and developed by the same hands, so nothing is lost between the mockup and the live site.

Mobile-first & fast

Most mothers will meet the brand on a phone. The site is designed for that reality — quick to load, effortless to browse.

Commerce-ready

Product catalogue, ingredient transparency pages and a checkout path — ready for direct-to-consumer sales from day one.

Trust architecture

Certifications, dermatologist notes, real mother testimonials and the brand story — placed where they convert doubt into purchase.

Built end-to-end in-house

Designed and developed by Black Lotus on a modern stack — with SEO foundations, analytics and easy self-serve editing after handover.

What you walk away with: a live, launch-ready website that replaces dependency on marketplaces with an owned channel — your margin, your data, your story.

What you walk away with: a live, launch-ready website that replaces dependency on marketplaces with an owned channel — your margin, your data, your story.

Eight weeks, four phases, no surprises.

Eight weeks, four phases, no surprises.

Weekly check-ins · everything reviewed in shared boards · two structured revision rounds per phase · you approve before we advance.

Week - 1

Discover

Immersion, competitor teardown, mother interviews, channel & pricing analysis.

Week - 2 and 3

Define

Positioning, name decision, brand architecture, verbal identity — signed off together.

Week - 4 and 5

Design

Packaging system, SKU artwork, shelf & thumbnail testing, website design.

Week - 6, 7 and 8

Deliver

Website development & launch, print-ready files, printer coordination, handover kit.

Strategy to shipped, under one roof.

Strategy to shipped, under one roof.

Black Lotus is a boutique design & development studio. Boutique is the point: senior attention on every deliverable, one accountable partner from research to live website.

Design and development, together

The people who design the brand build the website. No handoffs, no dilution, no “the developer changed it.”

Editorial-minimal craft

A signature of restraint and precision — the visual language premium care brands are built on worldwide.

Founder-led, senior-only

You work directly with the founder and designer. Every screen, label and word gets senior eyes.

Accountable to outcomes

One partner responsible for the whole chain — if it touches the brand, it's our job to make it excellent.

“We take on few clients so that each one gets the studio's full attention. Mamma Care would be one of them.”

“We take on few clients so that each one gets the studio's full attention. Mamma Care would be one of them.”

Award-winning design. Built, not just drawn.

Award-winning design. Built, not just drawn.

Black Lotus is a boutique design & development studio. We don't hand over mockups and disappear , we design the brand, build the site, and ship it live. Our work has been recognised internationally, and we bring that same editorial standard to every project, whatever its size.

Build it your way. Or take it all.

Build it your way. Or take it all.

FOUNDATION

The thinking layer.

85,000

What’s included

Market & consumer research

Positioning & brand strategy

Brand Guidelines

Art Direction

Name decision + verbal identity

FOUNDATION

The thinking layer.

85,000

What’s included

Market & consumer research

Positioning & brand strategy

Brand Guidelines

Art Direction

Name decision + verbal identity

SIGNATURE

Exclusive - You save 10,000

1,10,000

What’s included

Everything in Foundation

Launch SKU artwork, print-ready

Full packaging design system

Printer coordination to production

SIGNATURE

Exclusive - You save 10,000

1,10,000

What’s included

Everything in Foundation

Launch SKU artwork, print-ready

Full packaging design system

Printer coordination to production

THE COMPLETE BRAND

Both Services - You save 21,000

1,89,000

What’s included

Everything in Signature

Responsive, modern website design

SEO, analytics & trust layer

Launch support + handover kit

Best Fit

"The complete brand" tier balances premium execution with launch speed.

Payment

30% to begin, 50% mid-term, 20% after handoff.

Everything included. Nothing vague.

Everything included. Nothing vague.

Ayurvedic herb illustration set

Custom botanical illustrations of your hero herbs — an ownable visual asset for packs, site and social.

Added

Product visual & photo direction

Art-directed product renders and lifestyle visuals for packaging launch, ads and the website.

Added

Brand film & motion identity

A launch film plus motion principles — logo animation, pack renders, reels-ready cuts.

Added

Marketplace kit

Amazon A+ content, listing design and thumbnail system tuned to win the search-results scroll.

25,000

Social template kit — 15 designs

Post & story frames for before/afters, batches and offers, editable in Canva

12,000

Ongoing design retainer

A monthly block of senior design & development hours as the brand grows or 2 months post-launch."

Added

Next
Steps

Next
Steps

(01)

Step 01

Say Yes

Reply with your approval or any other final questions

(02)

Step 02

Submit your deposit

A 30% of deposit to kick start your work with us.

(03)

Step 03

Kick-off Session

Once your deposit is submitted we will start by arranging a kick-off call

Man Hoodie

BRD

Clara Shikhelman

Founder

Clara Shikhelman

Founder

Clara Shikhelman

Founder

Man Hoodie

BRD

120k

Global Impressions

Black lotus moves beyond simple authenticity, creating refined systems that shape digital presence.

160K

Community Reach

Elevating identity with structured clarity. black crafts experiences that extend far beyond visual form.

160K

Community Reach

Elevating identity with structured clarity. black crafts experiences that extend far beyond visual form.

750+

Creative Hours Logged

Through precision and intention, Black lotus transforms ideas into cohesive narratives that define brands.

257+

Projects Completed

Blending modern aesthetics with functional design, black lotus delivers refined solutions that push brands.

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Are creative requests truly unlimited?

What is the minimum timeline?

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How fast will I receive my work?

What distinguishes us from other agencies?

Are creative requests truly unlimited?

What is the minimum timeline?