Nature
&
découvertes

Brand refresh of an iconic retailer

Nature & Découvertes logo with the new colors...keeping in mind we have nothing to do whatsoever with this wordmark

What started it?

Oh my oh my, where to start with this one. Probably one of the most 360 scope project I’ve done. Nature & Découvertes, a nationally famous retailer did a call for tenders to select which agency will accompany them to freshen up their brand.
The agency I was working at — Frénésie, Paris — had been an agency focusing on event branding and still had everything to prove in larger branding projects.
I am very grateful to have been part of this project from the very start, the joy of winning such a big competition, and then carrying the client through workshops and tackle concepts, designs, and finally land on a 200 page guidebook.

works

Large scale print for Nature & Découvertes
Nature & Découvertes hero post for Instagram
Large scale print for Nature & Découvertes

Approach

The stakes of this rebrand were to:
- Strengthen the bond of attachment with their current customers ;
- Extend the scope by creating desirability with a younger audience, a public waiting to be conquered ;
- Adopt a modern posture to reaffirm and clarify their leadership in terms of commitments.

Our initial proposal and concepts from the call for tenders evolved through workshops and refining what was the best for both the client and the brand.

Creative Director: Romain Lemahieu
Creative Strategist: Mathieu Perrin
Head of Advertising: Benjamin Taieb
Fellow designers: Talita, Jade Pochard

Nature & Découvertes Approach Draft
Nature & Découvertes carrousel post for Instagram
Nature & Découvertes carrousel post for Instagram
Nature & Découvertes carrousel post for Instagram
Nature & Découvertes Instagram motionNature & Découvertes hero post for Instagram
Nature & Découvertes carrousel post for InstagramNature & Découvertes carrousel post for Instagram
Nature & Découvertes hero post for InstagramNature & Découvertes carrousel post for Instagram

Icons

I created a handcrafted icon library for Nature & Découvertes. Focusing on expressing the quirky and playful side of the brand.

They were all initially hand-drawn using a thick marker on big sheets of paper, extracting how we could represent each required icon with an innocent eye. They were then redrawn on top of it using the pen tool in Adobe Illustrator, making sure to keep some accidents part of the drawings.

In total, more than 80 custom icons were produced.

First iterations of icons for Nature & Découvertes, with a marker and a majestic A1 sheet of paper
almost full list of icons made for Nature & Découvertessome icons dancing around for Nature & Découvertes
Business card design for Nature & Découvertes
Magazine design for Nature & Découvertes
Example of the new branding usage on a custom packaging for Nature & Découvertes
Nature & Découvertes OOH

Ad campaign

Head of Advertising Benjamin Taieb supervised the production of Nature & Découvertes' ad campaign for 2023's end-of-year holiday season, kick-starting the release of the refreshed branding.

A total of three 30-second short films were created, leveraging the brand's new tone of voice and graphic assets.

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Nature & Découvertes ad thumbnail
Nature & Découvertes Instagram motionAnother square format for Nature & Découvertes
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