A real haircare brand, six pieces of it that nobody there ever asked for.
Moxie
2026
Naming direction, packaging, campaign art direction, copy
Solo, unsolicited
- Six posts a social manager can publish in any order without them reading as six different brands
- Yellow against a category running lilac and sage, so the bottle wins the first decision a shopper makes on a shelf
- One sticker shape and one lighting setup, so the seventh post costs a fraction of what the first one did
- A printed zine proving the system survives leaving the feed, which is the question a retail buyer asks first
Moxie never asked for this and never used it. What it demonstrates is production economy: a system where the next post keeps getting cheaper to make, which is the thing a brand actually buys when it buys an identity.
Moxie is a real Indian haircare brand. The six pieces here are entirely mine, made without being asked: packaging, a hero shot, a review post, an ingredient callout, an ad, and a printed zine.
Beauty with attitude, said with a hard period after the name instead of a soft flourish. A yellow loud enough to win the shelf, and one recurring sticker shape tying all six pieces together as one brand.
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Nobody at Moxie asked for any of this. I ended up building six pieces of a haircare brand I don’t work for because I couldn’t stop inventing problems for it to solve.
- MOXIE, with a hard period. “Beauty with attitude” set in a soft script typeface would have been lying about what the product actually is.
- Yellow, against the lilac-and-sage every haircare brand on the shelf defaults to. It’s there to win the “which bottle do I actually see first” test on a shelf drowning in pastels.
- One sticker shape, reused across the ad, the ingredient graphic and the review post: the piece of connective tissue that makes six separate assets read as one set.
- One lighting setup, one way of cropping a bottle, reused rather than reinvented every time. The hero shot is the only piece allowed to look like a real product photo instead of a designed one.
- The whole system needed to survive leaving the screen. The postcard zine is the proof: the same three moves, printed and held in your hand.
What I chose, what it cost, what changed.
Yellow, deliberately not the category default.
- Every haircare brand on the shelf runs lilac or sage. The shelf test gets won or lost before anyone even reads a label.
- Yellow doesn’t signal “haircare” at a glance the way the pastel palette does. Some category recognition gets traded away for it.
- A bottle that gets found first and identified second, in that order.
A wordmark with a hard period. MOXIE.
- The full stop carries the attitude. A script typeface would have promised a gentleness this brand was never selling.
- The mark reads as blunt rather than friendly, and it wasn’t trying to be friendly in the first place.
- A name that reads like a statement instead of a label.
One sticker shape, reused across every single piece.
- Six assets seen days apart in someone’s feed need at least one thing in common, or they just read as six unrelated posts.
- Every new post is slightly boxed in by a shape decided on the very first one.
- A fast scroll still registers all six as the same brand.
Designed a whole studio, not six one-off assets.
- By the third piece, the interesting question stopped being “is this a good shot” and became “could the same person plausibly have made all of these in one afternoon.”
- Nothing here is particularly surprising. Surprise was more or less the thing I was designing out on purpose.
- Six pieces that hold together as a system rather than reading as a scattered portfolio.
By the third piece I’d stopped designing individual assets and started designing a studio: one lighting setup, one sticker shape, one way of cropping a bottle, reused on purpose instead of reinvented for every post. That’s really what this project was testing. Not whether I could make one good shot, but whether I could make six that all look like the same person made them on the same afternoon, for a brand I don’t work for and was never asked to touch.
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