Product R&D, design, manufacture, packaging, and go-to-market strategy for niced.life
Industry: Art, Education, Travel
The opportunity
Niced.life is looking to end-to-end develop products that offer a "go with the flow" lifestyle. As part of the catalogue and going with an organic/natural concept, notebooks are one of the star products the brand is looking for, with an original design able to be replicated throughout production and following the brand's 4 ecosystems/natural lines: savannah, ocean, mountains, and forest.
Niced.life is looking to end-to-end develop products that offer a "go with the flow" lifestyle. As part of the catalogue and going with an organic/natural concept, notebooks are one of the star products the brand is looking for, with an original design able to be replicated throughout production and following the brand's 4 ecosystems/natural lines: savannah, ocean, mountains, and forest.
The project
For this first phase of the scalable and long-term project, we created the first collection of "naked" notebooks. We started by sketching some of the potential designs and materials that matched the brand vibes, as well as aligned to the user functionalities we wanted them to experience after some research, being one of them the fact that they wanted a notebook they can "open without problem, without rings and with a special texture experience". After that, we vector-designed the 4 main icons that represented the 4 ecosystems mentioned before, giving them a specific name and story. A specific suppliers research was done to identify the best prices, processes, and alliances we could make in order to build up a strong supply chain and start manufacturing. After the materials were bought, some components were manufactured by a specific supplier (such as the notebook binding) and the rest by Create Your Own Studio. In parallel, we created all the go-to-market strategy and when the first badge was finished, we produced the marketing content, launched a campaign, and started selling online throughout the whole Mexican territory.
For this first phase of the scalable and long-term project, we created the first collection of "naked" notebooks. We started by sketching some of the potential designs and materials that matched the brand vibes, as well as aligned to the user functionalities we wanted them to experience after some research, being one of them the fact that they wanted a notebook they can "open without problem, without rings and with a special texture experience". After that, we vector-designed the 4 main icons that represented the 4 ecosystems mentioned before, giving them a specific name and story. A specific suppliers research was done to identify the best prices, processes, and alliances we could make in order to build up a strong supply chain and start manufacturing. After the materials were bought, some components were manufactured by a specific supplier (such as the notebook binding) and the rest by Create Your Own Studio. In parallel, we created all the go-to-market strategy and when the first badge was finished, we produced the marketing content, launched a campaign, and started selling online throughout the whole Mexican territory.
My role
Creative director, together with a team of engineers, industrial designers, producers, and marketing managers.
Creative director, together with a team of engineers, industrial designers, producers, and marketing managers.
Key contributions
/ Project management and lead, defining with the team its scope, objectives, budget, planning, resources, time, execution, launching, and landing.
/ Conceptualized visual direction and icons art.
/ Created sketches for concept validation before entering to manufacturing stage.
/ Designed and managed the bookmarks' production.
/ Directed marketing strategy.
/ Project management and lead, defining with the team its scope, objectives, budget, planning, resources, time, execution, launching, and landing.
/ Conceptualized visual direction and icons art.
/ Created sketches for concept validation before entering to manufacturing stage.
/ Designed and managed the bookmarks' production.
/ Directed marketing strategy.
Outcome
Successful product development and manufacture, well-accepted by the market, and with an excellent relationship built with the client, becoming his ally for the product manufacture and future products development.
Successful product development and manufacture, well-accepted by the market, and with an excellent relationship built with the client, becoming his ally for the product manufacture and future products development.
