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Seek

Included in this project: Stakeholder Interviews, Strategic Workshops, Brand Audit, Competitive Audit, Audience Persona, Mood Board, Identity Design

Background

Seek is a tasteful and discreet curator of adult intimacy toys, focusing on offering premium products for deeply personal experiences. Prioritizing a sophisticated and respectful approach, the brand steers clear of explicit imagery, aligning more with the sensibilities of mainstream retail environments. They focus on providing a comfortable and refined shopping experience, ensuring privacy and discretion for customers. This approach demystifies and normalizes the purchase of adult sex toys, making it accessible and appealing to a wider, more diverse audience seeking quality and intimacy in their personal lives.

Challenges

The big hard challenge: Crafting a brand identity for this adult sex toy startup, which balances the nature of its products with a discreet and high-end brand personality. The primary task was to navigate the fine line between being forthright about the adult nature of the products while maintaining a level of sophistication and discretion.
Seek brand guidelines showing mood board elements.
Building exterior with Seek signage on a black modern retail building.
Shopping bag with Seek logo on a dark tropical leaves background design.
This project involved developing a visual and verbal brand language that communicated quality and intimacy without resorting to explicit or overt imagery and language.

The challenge extended to creating a brand experience that felt safe and inviting to a broad audience, including those who might be new or hesitant about such products. It was essential to foster an environment of trust and class, where customers felt comfortable exploring their intimate needs.

Another key aspect was differentiating the brand in a market that can often lean towards more provocative marketing. We needed to ensure that the brand stood out for its elegance and subtlety, aligning more with a high-end retail experience rather than a typical adult store vibe. This needed to feel like it belonged in a Beverly Hills shopping experience. Not that strip mall down the street. Pun intended.

Dark tones dominate the color palette, naturally conveying a sense of privacy and intimacy. And while dark tones establish sophistication and discretion, the addition of a blue to pink gradient on the logo and key brand assets introduces a softer, more approachable element. This made the brand more inviting and less intimidating, especially to customers who are new to adult toys.

The unique blue to pink gradient set against dark backgrounds distinguished the brand in the market. It provides a distinctive visual identity that stands out from competitors, many of whom may rely on more traditional color schemes in the adult toy industry.

Designing an identity that resonated with the brand's discreet vision, yet still captured the attention and interest of potential customers, required careful thought and creativity. The aim was to appeal to consumers’ desires for quality and discretion, making them feel that they are investing in more than just a product, but in an elevated experience.

Overall, I built an identity for this brand that not only respected the personal nature of its products but also celebrated it in a tasteful, refined manner.

Refining intimacy.

Sheet of dark stickers and one light sticker, all with the Seek logo.
Product tag with Seek logo.