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Clara Sasiene

Clara Sasiene

mcvodka

Concept development, brand identity & strategy, packaging design

overview

Imagine a world where McDonald’s is sitting on a mountain of excess potatoes—misshapen, surplus, or just too rebellious for uniform fries. What’s a fast-food conglomerate to do?

Enter McVodka, the posh potato elixir born from golden arches and distilled irony.

In a left-field brand pivot that nobody asked for but everyone will be obsessed with, McDonald’s launches a designer vodka brand using their surplus spuds. The twist? It’s high-end, tastefully irreverent, and riding the wave of eco-luxury meets gold-standard branding.

Sustainability isn’t the headline—it’s the baseline. McVodka transforms food waste into a status object, and doesn’t need a green label to prove it.
SATIRE, SERVED NEAT
McVodka positions itself as a premium spirits brand, crafted from cultural leftovers and thoughtful design—with a price point high enough to raise eyebrows, yet low enough to still be impulse-bought on payday.
Built on the ubiquity of McDonald’s, this brand flips familiarity into exclusivity by recontextualizing fast food ubiquity as luxury design language.
MASS CULTURE, REPACKAGED
A brand that knows it’s unexpected and leans into that tension—but does so with taste, intent, and high-end production. 
IRONIC LUXURY (à la Vetements and Balenciaga)
A brand that plays with the language of luxury—matte foil, premium packaging, restraint—but does it with a wink, not a smirk.
UPCYCLED COOL

top-shelf ambitions

golden arches meet gold foil

McVodka’s visual world is built on contrast: high-end materials meet lowbrow origins, fast-food references are wrapped in luxury codes, and every detail walks the line between playful and polished. The brand borrows the visual language of premium spirits—clean typography, rich textures, moody lighting—and filters it through a familiar red-and-gold palette that quietly nods to its fast-food DNA.

from spud to shelf

My goal was to strike a balance between conceptual edge and premium execution—a brand that could make you laugh and look twice. The result is a product that feels both inevitable and impossible: a vodka that started in a deep fryer and ended up in a velvet box.