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Canis.

A CBD beauty brand built from scratch. It chose spicy.

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Client

Canis Collection

Industry

CBD-infused beauty

Services

Brand, packaging, website, social, development

Process

Core Discovery

01 / Core DiscoveryBrand from scratch

Canis Collection provides a quality CBD product experience to look-and-feel-matter customers in an experience-focused environment with a Peloton-esque voice, helping them feel confident and make a difference.

Canis started with nothing. Our Core Discovery process produced the sentence above, then personas, then three stylescapes to decide which visual direction the brand should take.

02 / StylescapesMild, medium, spicy

Mild

Mild stylescape: navy and gold, classic serif

Medium

Medium stylescape: soft neutrals, modern serif

Spicy.

Minimal but bold. Monochrome, often greyscale. A rebellious, rock-star feel.

03 / PackagingSimple and clean
The Canis product line: cleansing paste, serums and body cream
Canis body cream bottle

A series of CBD-infused beauty products. The labels are minimal, but elevated by small details, like a gloss background texture of the cannabinoid molecule.

04 / PhotographyTwo kinds of image
A woman applying Canis cream at home

Product lifestyle

An at-home spa. The products are part of a daily beauty routine.

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ConceptualSymbolism, movement and mood. Set against the copy, the image makes the message hit harder.
05 / The websiteCustom designed

A lifestyle, not lotion.

Dramatic type woven into images, and plenty of negative space for a calm, Zen feel. The hard part: a product-forward ecommerce site that never feels like it's selling to you.

Greyscale wireframe
Canis Collection website
06 / SocialDetails in a story
Grid of Canis social posts
Canis Instagram feed on a phone

Simple, immersive images and moments of Zen that reach for every sense: the sound of the surf, the smell of red wine, the feel of lotion on skin.

Pick your heat. ↗

Core Discovery, stylescapes and a brand built from nothing.

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