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Intentionality. Everything beautiful in Italy oozes with this idea. So when Suite437 asked me to build a coffee brand about sprezzatura, every detail mattered.
(And it gave me an excuse to walk around Milan for a few days.)
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I Just Created NOIRÉ 🔥
A Coffee Brand Built Around the Pause.
NOIRÉ is a premium café brand built around a simple idea:
Great coffee should feel like a moment of pause, not another part of the
routine.
The project explores a complete visual identity, packaging
system, takeaway cups, coffee bags, tote bags, menu design, café applications and lifestyle campaign direction.
Instead of relying on the usual loud coffee aesthetics, I
built NOIRÉ around deep charcoal, warm ivory, soft graphite, refined
typography, subtle botanical illustrations and quiet editorial compositions.
The visual language is intentionally dark, tactile, and understated - giving every touchpoint the feeling of a slow morning, a quiet table, and coffee worth taking your time with.
From the cup in your hand to the café around you, every detail was designed to make the brand feel like a ritual.
Waiting for your thoughts in the comments 🙌🔥
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I wrote a great hook for this one..
That's a fib, but here's a truth, you sell more when you fit into your customers' routines.
Need an example? Afters is for finding underground parties in Berlin. There are so many ways people can find parties from Resident Advisor to posters on lampposts.
The easy CTA for a brand like Afters is "Find Underground Parties in Berlin".
Short, clear, to the point,
But most people already search on Resident Advisor, how would that line convince them to change their behaviour and search Afters? Unfortunately being a "cooler" app doesn't motivate many people.
With a clear strategy, I delivered a way in that RA could never hope for.
Afters pulls from sources where line ups are posted last minute or after the event – Telegram groups, fan websites, Soundcloud – and being for people in the scene, they're the kind of folk who go to a party for the vibe and look up DJs after the fact.
So I did the opposite of what you'd expect.
If you want to know who you just danced to, ask Afters.
Instead of competing to be the place to find parties in the future, I found a key moment the target audience has a problem that Afters is uniquely positioned to solve and built the strategy around it. No one can compete, because no one else works like Afters.
Problem -> Strategy -> Branding
Love it!
Hi Contra 👋
I'm Alia, founder of Slick Prjct , my small brand strategy and design studio based in Brussels. I've been doing this for 10+ years, both in-house and freelancers side.
I've spent the last few years mostly on Upwork, so starting a profile here from zero feels a bit... strange? In a good way :)
So how is it here?
What do you wish someone had told you in your first month?
Go ahead. I think you will get your desire clients.