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How to position bedlinen label on competitive e-commerce market

Client
La Chambre Paris

Mission
Brand Strategy, Naming, Logo, Brand Identity,
Brand Messaging, Client Experience,
Art Direction, Photography, Packaging Design,
UX + Visual Design, E-shop Web Design

Credits
Global art direction : Emma Brante & Masha Kontchakova
Naming : Emma Brante
Brand identity design : Emma Brante
Graphic Design : Emma Brante
Photography art direction : Masha Kontchakova
Web art direction, UI, UX design : Emma Brante & Masha Kontchakova

French fervor, traditional, intimate, nostalgic

Founded by Alison Ross and Ian Benton, an Anglo-American couple who fell in love with France and Paris, La Chambre Paris is a brand of high-end linen sold online combining great quality and affordable prices, eco-friendly trade and French chic : lachambreparis.com

La Chambre entrusted us with the creation of their global branding.  We worked closely with the founders on storytelling, visual identity, web design and artistic direction of photos to position the brand in a competitive e-commerce market.

Visual identity

We drew our inspiration from French traditional white linen with its characteristic red line. The double red line is used as a leitmotif on in the entire visual identity of the brand.

Inspiring customer experience

Create envy, and leave the sanitized aspects related to the constraints of e-commerce. We have given much attention to the images of atmosphere and the graphic territory of the brand while responding to the constraints of e-commerce.

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Artistic direction & photo shoots

We have taken particular care in the design and production of photos to translate the quality and feel of the textile on screen, to meet the constraints of the e-shop and show the intrinsic qualities of the products and the positioning top of the line.

Simplicity and sophisticated nonchalance

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The art of presenting products

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The customer experience

As La Chambre is a brand exclusively sold online, Alison and Ian attach great importance to the quality of the packaging and the presentation of the products when receiving the purchases.

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Attention to details

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Corporate communication

Each element of stationary is considered as a vector of brand marketing. Each element should be treated in details.

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Delicacy and « magic touch »

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Thank you Alison & Ian

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How to position bedlinen label on competitive e-commerce market

Client
La Chambre Paris

Mission
Brand Strategy, Naming, Logo, Brand Identity,
Brand Messaging, Client Experience,
Art Direction, Photography, Packaging Design,
UX + Visual Design, E-shop Web Design

Credits
Global art direction : Emma Brante & Masha Kontchakova
Brand identity design : Emma Brante
Graphic Design : Emma Brante
Photography art direction : Masha Kontchakova
Web art direction, UI, UX design : Emma Brante & Masha Kontchakova

La Chambre entrusted us with the creation of their global branding.
We worked closely with the founders on storytelling, visual identity, web design and artistic direction of photos to position the brand in a competitive e-commerce market.

French fervor, traditional, intimate, nostalgic

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Create envy, and leave the sanitized aspects related to the constraints of e-commerce. We have given much attention to the images of atmosphere and the graphic territory of the brand while responding to the constraints of e-commerce.

Inspiring customer experience

Unlimited finishes

Client
Studio Saint-Pierre

Mission
Brand Strategy, Logo, Web Identity & Design,
Brand Messaging, Client Experience,
Art Direction, Photography

Web site
www.studiosaintpierre.com

Credits
Global art direction : Masha Kontchakova & Emma Brante
Brand identity design : Emma Brante
Graphic Design : Emma Brante
Photography art direction : Masha Kontchakova
Web art direction, UI, UX design : Masha Kontchakova & Emma Brante
Photography : Fabrice Fouillet

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Studio Saint Pierre creates and produces unique artisan design surfaces in liquid metal for interior design.

In order to build a new business in a highly competitive metal market, the studio needed a clear positioning and a striking visual identity.

Frontline studio was commissioned to design a new visual identity and a striking website.

Photographing metal, we wanted to “dive” into the texture. This approach makes the samples as precious as jewelry and transforms them to a contemplative landscape.

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UX + Web design, Photography, Graphics

Photographing hardware like jewellery: Sublimating the craft of glass engineering

Client
Glassdebourg, France

Mission
Editorial concept, Brand Messaging,
Brochure Design, Graphic design,
Art direction, Photography, Copyright

Credits
Global Art Direction : Masha Kontchakova & Emma Brante
Photo art direction : Masha Kontchakova
Graphic design : Emma Brante
Photography : Fabrice Fouillet

The French glass workshop Glassdebourg is an unique expert in production and installation of interior glass in hotels.

Specialized in custom made, the workshop signes beautiful projects with some of the most interesting designers nowadays: Dimore Studio, Tristan Auer, François Champsaur, Sarah Lavoine, Ora Ito…

Photography & art direction

The design treatment is pure and minimal, very composed, as sharp as glass.

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For a greater visual impact, we have customized the font in view to reinforce the very graphic atmosphere.

Transforming an artisan workshop into an international brand

Client
Hérès, France

Mission

Brand Strategy, Logo, Brand Identity,
Brand Messaging, Client Experience,
Art Direction, Photography, Web Design
www.heres.paris

Credits
Global art direction : Masha Kontchakova & Emma Brante
Photography art direction : Masha Kontchakova
Brand identity design : Emma Brante
Graphic Design : Emma Brante

The best stonemason workshop in Europe, famous for its technical mastery and unique industrial tools, decided to reposition itself by creating a new name and new visual identity.

Brand identity

We have been missioned to create the brand and to develop its identity through all communication canals: website, social media, brochure, catalogues, media…

Successful collaboration during several years where we established Heres on international professional market.

The promise:
“Living in classical architecture”

An appealing baseline to enter the world of Hérès.

Website

A feeling of majesty and sovereignty. For the website we used a classical language: symmetrical, centered, with beautiful dropcaps like in an old book.

Logo & visual identity

Corporate
communication

We choose to draw from the tradition of a classical architecture using the drawing of Trianon palace in Versailles.

Brochures

In order to communicate with professionals and promoters, we created several brochures explaining and simplifying the complex technical process of Heres mastery.

Giving a unique look to a functional everyday object

Client
Bassines, France

Mission
Brand Strategy, Brand Identity,
Brand Messaging, Art Direction,
Photography, Copyright

The brand new company in French luxury bathroom, Bassines set a challenge: to reinvent the fine copperware and transform it into a design object.

Creation of
communication tools,
Launching

Our mission was to launch the brand and create the total package of communication tools: photos, copyright, press release, invitation cards…

Digital

Photography, Art Direction
Photo shoots

Metal in the heart of artistic direction. Pure form, light, graphic point of view.

Corporate items

The emblematic shape of metal washbasin  – rectangle and its edge –  focus on essentiel elements of the product: shape, trap and embossing stamp.

Bringing beauty to the dust: how to create a digital display for Master Artisan

Client
Atelier Rayssac

Mission
Art Direction, Photography,
Website Design

www.atelier-rayssac.com

Credits
Global Art Direction : Masha Kontchakova & Emma Brante
Photography art direction : Masha Kontchakova
Web art direction, Ul, UX design : Masha Kontchakova & Emma Brante
Photography : Franck Juery

Website & photography production

Photo report in the workshops

Haircare, for curls only.

Client
Tropikal Bliss

Mission
Brand Strategy, E-shop, Web Design,
Brand Messaging, Client Experience,
Art Direction, Photography

Web site
www.tropikalbliss.fr

Photo © Masha Kontchakova Frontline Studio, © Kasia Matenska

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The position of Tropikal Bliss is clear: vegan products based on fruits for all types of curly hair. That was a good start!

Our job was to create a visual world that could express all of these ideas in one image.

Happy Curls – was our answer.  It meant happy girls, fresh fruits, sunny light and a dynamic feeling of joy and health.

Dynamic, fun, fresh!

We based the Tropikal Bliss’s brand identity on striking and lively photography where fruits look so fresh that you want to eat them and girls look so happy that you want to know them.

The artistic direction is based on a spontaneous feeling of happiness and joy.

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Managing the brand image in order to bring it to new young consumers

Client
La Cornue

Mission
Brand Strategy, Brand Identity,
Brand Messaging, Brand Communication,
Art Direction, Photography,
Press, Public relations,
Launch Conception & Organisation

For five years we created and managed the worldwide image and PR department for La Cornue, a benchmark for excellence in the world of gastronomy. Managing the company’s French heritage and its representation throughout the world were the objectives of my mission as was the development of contemporary products for a new audience.

Drawing up marketing plans and new products, managing press agencies around the world, creating communication tools, launching new products, running events in the retailer network, public relations… I managed these missions and actions all over the world.

We designed with the help of a graphic design studio all the brand’s PR tools: sales offers, sales tools, cooking lessons, invitations, press kits…

The most relevant projects are explained in more detail on other pages on the website.

Showing the product as one would show a piece of jewelry

Advertisement campaigns & press images

How to enrich the historical world famous brand and bring them further: collab La Cornue & Lex Pott

Collab La Cornue by Jean-Michel Wilmotte

Launch a traditional brand into a world of design 

The creation of the “La Cornue by Wilmotte” line was a challenge for this manufacturer known for its traditional style. MKGB was consulted to organise a global launch with the press, retailers and customers.

La Cornue attended the Milan Furniture Show for the very first time. MKGB centralised the work of over ten PR agencies for the press international coverage.

Feeding the press, art direction, shooting, production…

Variation for the Foodistas generation

Revealing a world of softness. Photo & Website for Parisian upholsterer Philippe Coudray.

Client
Ateliers Philippe Coudray

Mission
Web Design, Editorial, Copywriting

www.ateliersphilippecoudray.com

Frontline Studio showcases the best craftsmen in the world of decoration.  Tapestry workshops Philippe Coudray, a major player in the French interior scene, entrusted us with the creation of his website.

Philippe Coudray is a lover of beautiful fabrics and sophisticated classical tapestry techniques.  His colorful personality is translated with a contrasted graphic language, a strong brutalist typeface in a world of softness.

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Like trimmings that would dress up a window decoration, a lace ribbon runs through the entire website. Rods with tiebacks punctuate the titles of the different sections.

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Baroque, bold, rock

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Throughout the website, we opposed to this baroque world, a strong and brutalist kind of typeface.  The font is imposing, thus creating a beautiful dynamic as well as a spectacular visual effect.

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