The design evokes an enveloping bath of light in vibrant colors; memories of warm horizons, squinted eyes, under y-reshoot. The frosted touch of the bottles reminds us of the glasses eroded by the ocean collected during walks by the sea.

A sunny and summery spirit accompanied by a vintage touch. 

The fragrance was imagined as a moment of holidays where you reach the beach, ready to enjoy the sun. A precious moment, a little parenthesis where everything is simple, the happiness of being together, salty skin and messy hair.

Albertine Swim is a cool and unique brand from Biarritz, France specializing in lingerie, swimwear and retro-chic ready-to-wear. Founders Anémone and Caroline decided to launch a new fragrance. Created in collaboration with the renowned perfumer Joëlle Lerioux-Patris, this first fragrance was made to measure by favoring a human and sincere relationship. A unique olfactory creation, the result of these authentic moments of sharing. We were commissioned to realize the entire brand concept, including naming, visual identity, art direction and packaging.

Naming, Branding, Art Direction, Packaging

We drew the logo lettering with condensed grotesque families headlines as an inspiration. We then blended them together to enhance the visual mass producing a larger than life look compensated by the use of a stroke. The result is forceful while remaining light.

The type choices went towards Futura Now. A variable font version of this classic using tight kerning and heavy weights.

The amount of control we wanted to have over the headlines kerning led us to develop a tool that allowed us to change the letter spacing directly in the browser and record the result to implement it in the CSS.

Interactions take advantage of font width and weight variations as well as visual scale in order to play with visual density.

We agreed with BIG to keep the navigation as minimal and accessible as possible, however we wanted the interactions to echo the identity work carried out upstream. Thus we created a script that modifies the scale of the thumbnails according to the cursor’s position and applied this principle to image-to-image transitions, viewers and talent page, maintaining a coherent user experience.

Mobile devices interactions being more limited, we have transposed these scaling effects on scroll to preserve this spirit.

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Futura Now

Big Productions wanted a reboot with a more assertive identity in tune with their name and positioning, completed by a site that echoes this new image. After several weeks of experimentation and exchanges, we finally found a lead that is imposing while retaining a certain finesse articulated by a design system that plays with typographic contrasts and visual scale effects.

Logotype, Visual identity, Art Direction, Development

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