STUDIO · MARKETS

Eight categories we know cold.

Pattern recognition shortens the work. We have run the same argument enough times in each of these to know where the category's assumptions are hiding, and which of them will not survive being questioned in front of a customer.

22 PUBLISHED CASES8 MARKETSTHREE COUNTRIES
A Moss field crew in branded hard hats on a rooftop
CONSTRUCTION AND ENERGY · MOSS
The Tamarí Tango Bottled campaign with the bottle beside a bandoneón player
WINE · TAMARÍ
A Saville runway look, full figure
LUXURY FASHION · SAVILLE
A CIFO gallery installation
ARTS AND PHILANTHROPY · CIFO
The Panolini Responsive Diaper size 5 pack
BABY CARE · PANOLINI
FOOD AND BEVERAGE

Four seconds, and a shopper who is not reading.

The most crowded shelf in the world. What we know here: the pack is the argument, the origin story is only worth telling if it changes the choice, and a naming architecture built early is what makes line extension cheap later. 4Sisters · Neighbors · Martin Foods · Avelina · Tamarí.

The 4Sisters family at an outdoor table
4SISTERS · THE FAMILY THE BRAND IS NAMED FOR
Two Avelina instant oatmeal cartons, strawberry and apple cinnamon
AVELINA · THE INSTANT RANGE, TWO FLAVOURS ON ONE SYSTEM
Neighbors chocolate chip
NEIGHBORS · CHOCOLATE CHIP
Martin Foods delivery
MARTIN FOODS · THE PART THE CLIENT FEELS
Tamarí neck hangers
TAMARÍ · AT THE POINT OF DECISION
CONSUMER HEALTH

Shame is the real competitor.

Categories organised around a customer's discomfort, usually mistaking that for a service. The brand that stops apologising first takes a position nobody else can follow into without contradicting themselves. Made for Living · Bright Autism · Better Not Younger · Belcare.

A Made for Living billboard in a park
MADE FOR LIVING · OUT OF HOME, WHERE THE CATEGORY NEVER GOES
The Bright Autism Little Rocking Chair and its pack
BRIGHT AUTISM · DESIGNED FOR SENSORY NEEDS
Better Not Younger campaign
BNY · I DON'T CHASE WHO I USED TO BE
Bright Autism tools
TOOLS THAT HELP UNLOCK THE GENIUS WITHIN
Belcare food safe surface
BELCARE · FOOD SAFE, ON A SURFACE PEOPLE EAT FROM
FASHION AND LUXURY

Restraint reads as judgement.

Where taste is the product and volume of message destroys it. Heritage has to be shown rather than claimed, and a brand whose job is to hold other brands has to be quiet enough that none of them feel diminished. Saville · Brigati · Niluu · Nonchalant.

Runway
SAVILLE · REPRESENTED
Brigati worn
BRIGATI · WORN, NOT STYLED
A Niluu silk pyjama set worn, beside the wordmark
NILUU · THE SILK, WORN
The open back in cream
NONCHALANT · THE OPEN BACK
Italy without the postcard
BRIGATI · ITALY, WITHOUT THE POSTCARD
The Nonchalant showroom
NONCHALANT · THE SHOWROOM
CONSTRUCTION AND ENERGY

Market the final benefit, not the building.

Businesses whose output is a commodity and whose real differentiator is the people. Make the claim belong to the workforce before you take it to a client. Moss · EFC.

MOSS · WE ARE IMPROVING LIVES
Field crew on drawings
MOSS · FIELD CREW ON DRAWINGS
The Just Cause on a hoarding
THE JUST CAUSE, CARRIED IN THE STREET
An EFC interior hung with framed works
EFC · THE FINISHED INTERIOR
TECHNOLOGY

The buyer is not buying the architecture. They are buying the removal of a risk.

Companies fluent in their own capability and illegible to everyone else. The site has to say what changes before it says anything technical. ChaiOne · InfraMappa · Get Licensed.

Innovation should be taking you to a happy place
CHAIONE · THE LINE THAT HOLDS THEM ALL
Mapping the future on stage
INFRAMAPPA · MAPPING THE FUTURE, ON STAGE
The ChaiOne site
CONVERSATIONAL, NOT ROBOTIC
InfraMappa platform banners
INFRAMAPPA · TOTAL CITY VISIBILITY
The Get Licensed platform on a laptop and in the hand
GET LICENSED · THE PLATFORM, IN THE HAND
ARTS AND PHILANTHROPY

The work is the brand. The interface should get out of the way.

Institutions whose credibility is the asset and whose communications usually undersell it. Twenty years of programme history is a story most foundations never tell properly. CIFO · PACT Capital.

Prisoner's Dilemma installation
CIFO · PRISONER'S DILEMMA
Exhibition graphics at room scale
CIFO · THE IDENTITY AT ROOM SCALE
The CIFO Grants and Commissions programme page
CIFO · GRANTS AND COMMISSIONS, STATED IN FULL
World is good for business
PACT · WORLD IS GOOD FOR BUSINESS
MOBILITY AND SERVICES

The winning idea is usually a line the category is too careful to print.

Consumer platforms competing on habit rather than feature. It has to land on the street first. Lyft.

The Hurricanes play tonight
THE HURRICANES PLAY TONIGHT
Tomorrow will be 74 and sunny
TOMORROW WILL BE 74 AND SUNNY
The Lyft flamingo billboard against a Miami sky
THE CITY'S OWN MASCOT, BORROWED
A Lyft billboard reading Designated who
DESIGNATED WHO · THE LINE THE CATEGORY WOULD NOT PRINT
OWNED BRANDS

We test the method where there is no client to absorb the risk.

Our own lab. We run brands with our own money, and what we learn there goes straight back into client work. Nonchalant · Brigati · Parentezi.

The Nonchalant Label wordmark on a wall
NONCHALANT · THE LABEL ON THE WALL
Fittings
FITTINGS · THE PART NOBODY PHOTOGRAPHS
The Brigati line, For the few
BRIGATI · FOR THE FEW
WHY IT MATTERS
Every category has a rule everyone follows and nobody wrote down.
In adult incontinence it was hide the product. In diapers it was tape means newborn. In construction it was market the building. Knowing a market cold is not knowing its trends. It is knowing which of its unwritten rules is load bearing and which one is just habit that a competitor has not yet tested.
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