Rascalater
Keeping everybody happy can be a challenging but also fun task when that includes the homeowners, wildlife, and the community at large. Fully exploiting the expressiveness and intelligence of raccoons this balance of wildness and playfulness with utility is present in every aspect of the brand expression including the product design itself.
Brand Identity
Main logo style and alternative uses.
Product Design
Manufacturing & Supply Chain
Storytelling
Packaging
Web & Digital
Awai
An angular, choppy stroke pattern evocative of Japanese traditional brush calligraphy is a time capsule containing the heritage of the brand.
Print Stationery
Oral Care & Supplements
Subscription Mailer.
Skincare
Trade Show Booth
Keeping the brand consistent across ALL the touch points.
Sabi
Compostable beauty packaging from forest waste.
You’re your own best imperfection. Inspired by wabi-sabi, we designed a 100% compostable, micro-plastics-free solution made from Finnish forestry waste for this anti-aging system that celebrates a little wear and tear while reminding us about humanity and humility while titillating the aesthetic senses.
Shoukburger
We collaborated with our old friends at Shouk to come up with branding and a 100% compostable multi-functional packaging system for the now legendary pre-cooked frozen vegetable patties they refer to as Shoukburgers. Just in time for the meatless burger wars. Then again, we’re convinced that once you taste them there will be peace at last. Unlike meat-substitute or conventional veggie burgers, a Shoukburger is moist and beefy while made 100% from minimally processed vegetables, mushrooms, and other things you can pronounce, and with a satisfying flavor profile that is true to its Israeli street food roots.
The inspiration board.
The logo is derived from the Shouk logo but with a clear goal of communicating the nature and physical volume of the product. The idea of stackability is built into the visual language as much as into the form and function of the packaging system.
An actual Shoukburger. Yep!
Rather than wrapping each patty individually in an attempt to prevent the onset of freezer burn, we arrived at a delightfully simple solution inspired by frozen beef hamburgers.
Introducing a single membrane vis a vis a breathable paper wrapper allowed us to arrive at a solution that is elegant, on-brand, fast and inexpensive to implement at scale or in a more limited capacity.
The pulp cylinder system is durable enough to withstand direct to consumer shipping and stands out exceptionally in the retail display.
Deploy
Inspired by effectiveness - a trait they credit their hero General Patton with, Deploy was born as a best-of-class product in any category. American-owned and made, it is meant to be bold and stand tall and represent a military-grade germ defense perimeter - like an invisible but very real force field of sorts. The idea of urgency combined with the notions of efficacy and blunt force power added to the very real need to differentiate in the retail isle necessitated the eventual choice for the coral neon as the vibrating and singular signature brand color.
Avalon Derma
A new skincare line for Riyadh’s fastest-growing beauty and personal care manufacturer Avalon injects vibrancy into an otherwise harsh, muted and often chromatically-challenged ambiance of the desert, serving as a respite from the everyday. It is at once utilitarian and minimalist while conveying cosmopolitan modernist confidence rarely seen in the native Saudi brandscape.
Infiniti
Celebrated chef and personality, Chef Roblé Ali, invites us into his process when navigating the preparation and execution of a specialized meal. By utilizing both his expertise and a powerful resource, the Infiniti QX50, he is able to achieve the ultimate experience in taste and presentation.
This multiple agency collaboration for Infiniti and UrbanDaddy was directed, edited, and produced by our own Ryan Smith.
OX
Nanoxidil-powered hair styling and scalp care kit for men. Virility, vitality, volume. Stylish, professional grade tools for everyman’s bathroom. Not your dad’s hair club.
Excerpts from the design brief.
A name and identity system that speaks volume, speed, and professional power.
Bold, not bald.
Complete care kit.
NØBO
Fight odor causing bacteria with the help of your microbiome. No more B.O. Even less B.S.! All natural probiotic deodorant for all. The brief was about as minimalist as a designer could hope for in both its limitations and its possibilities in terms of being able to strip things down to the basics - an inspiration for the brand and the product from the formulation of all natural essential oils and ingredients with probiotics to how it will help expand the possibilities of probiotics as a platform for continued development for other personal hygiene and beauty products.
Secondary logo style for digital use.
Zero odor emission promise is embedded.
Honest Tea
Honest Team launched The Great Recycle in New York’s Times Square with the goal of helping to boost national recycling rates. The experiential tour has since visited 20 states and recycled more than 540,000 beverage containers. Ryan Smith directed and produced a series of videos for the event, including the brand storytelling through a stop-animation journey of a bottle through its recycling lifecycle and coverage of the event itself.
Peter Coppola
Let's iron things out wit this new straightening iron from Peter Coppola - a Personal Brands brand.
And redesign of the entire line followed.
Kicksback (Nike Adventure Club)
When Nike Innovation's Nexus project approached Alphaforms about creating a life-like, high-resolution e-commerce application in order to test a business plan. We worked as a subset of the Peer Insight team in order to create the solution which succeeded in several key performance categories including qualifying for continued funding by the internal VC board. The end product of that collaboration is now known as the Nike Adventure Club. You know, for kids.
Shoelace-inspired identity.
Working with Peer Insight we co-created and collaborated with Nike in order to validate the use cases and build a beautiful alpha experience, end to end.
