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Erha Clinic

Category
Packaging
Year
2025
Industry
Beauty
Services
Applications Development

Overview

Erha is one of Indonesia's most established names in dermatology. Founded in 1999, the clinic has grown to roughly 90 branches across the country and built a skincare product line that is sold through its own stores, major e-commerce platforms, and retail partners. For over two decades, the brand has positioned itself on clinical credibility, dermatologist-formulated products, and a trust level that most local beauty brands spend years trying to earn.

Perfect Shield is one of Erha's distinct product lines, focused specifically on skin protection from sun exposure, pollution, and blue light. It sits within a larger portfolio that includes Age Corrector, AcneAct, TruWhite, and Skinsitive, each with its own target concern and consumer profile. Across that full range, visual consistency is not just a design preference. For a brand built on clinical authority, it is part of what makes the product feel trustworthy on shelf.

The Problem

The packaging on the Perfect Shield line needed to be updated, and not just visually. The existing design had drifted from Erha's brand guidelines. In a portfolio this size, drift happens. A line gets refreshed, a variant gets added, a vendor makes a small adjustment, and gradually the product on shelf no longer reads as a unified family. For a brand like Erha, where the entire proposition rests on precision and credibility, inconsistency in packaging does real damage to how consumers perceive the product before they even open it.

This is a specific kind of packaging design brief. It is not a ground-up creative project where the studio has full creative latitude. It is tighter and in some ways harder: work within an established identity system, correct what has drifted, and deliver something that looks like it always should have been there. The skill required is different from concepting a new brand identity. You need to understand the system, not just the aesthetic.

The Approach

Arterie handled the redesign of the bottle packaging and outer box for the Perfect Shield product. The work covered both the primary container, the bottle itself, and the secondary packaging, the box that sits on shelf and faces the consumer at point of purchase.

The design direction brought the line back into alignment with Erha's brand guidelines without making the update feel disruptive to consumers already familiar with the product. Color application, typography treatment, hierarchy of information, and the balance between clinical and approachable were all calibrated to match how the broader Erha system is meant to look and feel.

For a packaging design project in Indonesia involving a clinical skincare brand, this kind of guideline-compliance work requires attention that goes beyond taste. Getting the logo clearance right, keeping the regulatory information readable at small sizes, making sure the bottle and box read as the same product family when placed side by side. These details determine whether the redesign actually solves the problem or just looks different.

What Got Delivered

A refreshed packaging system for Perfect Shield that sits cleanly within Erha's established visual identity. The bottle and outer box now work together as they should, and the line reads consistently against the rest of the Erha portfolio on shelf.

For brands or companies searching for packaging design in Indonesia that requires working within existing brand guidelines rather than starting from scratch, this project shows what that discipline looks like in practice.

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