Distinctive packaging & design

This week, I read an article in Wallpaper about swimwear brand Vilebrequin celebrating its 50th anniversary with an exclusive collection of swim trunks (1). In a nice touch, each trunk is [...]

The Oatly brand growth story is an amazing one. After 20 years of relatively low and stable revenues to 2014, a sleepy Swedish oat milk has transformed itself into a hyper-growth, lifestyle brand [...]

Distinctive brand properties (e.g. logos, colors, slogans, mascots) are important to stand out in today’s fast paced and cluttered markets. Building strong brand properties takes years and [...]

In this post, I explore in detail how the brand building of Peloton drove explosive growth, using seven ‘workouts’ from our upcoming brandgym Mastering Brand Growth Program. I [...]

The biggest kick I get in my job is seeing a brand strategy come to life in the marketplace with impact to drive distinctiveness. So, I was thrilled to bits when a special delivery of Nix & [...]

The hallway of the Taylor residence has taken on the look of a post office sorting room during lockdown, with piles of packages arriving or being re-packed up ready for return. Most of the online [...]

Post by David Nichols, Group Managing Partner and Head of Invention How do you keep driving profitable growth of a leader brand, bringing in new users and delighting current ones, when it already [...]

Post by Anne Charbonneau, Managing Parter based in Amsterdam. The importance of the online channel has sky-rocketed during the Covid crisis. Tesco reported a 49% jump in online sales (three [...]

Post by Bety Martinez, Partner based in Mexico City. NASA successfully launched two astronauts to the International Space Station in SpaceX’s Falcon 9 capsule on May 30th. However, NASA [...]

Post by Simon Gore, Managing Partner and brandgym’s head of Naming & Visual Identity. I’m often asked about how to get the best out of creative teams when working on design and visual [...]