SuperDust
Brief
Our client came to us at an exciting stage of business. They’d had an exciting business plan and had acquired the means to make it a reality. They needed branding and design services to help them translate their vision into a compelling brand identity and roll it out across a suite of new products, services, and marketing activities.
Scope
Branding & Strategy
Creative Direction
Naming
Packaging Design
Copy Writting
Creative Direction
Naming
Packaging Design
Copy Writting
Motion Graphic
Website Design & Development
Social Media Strategy
Social Media Design
Photography and Video Art Direction
Apparel Design
Website Design & Development
Social Media Strategy
Social Media Design
Photography and Video Art Direction
Apparel Design
Website
SuperDust curates products and services that help elite Mountain Biking athletes make the transition from good to great, and from amateur to professional. They are deeply connected to the MTB community, engaging riders like two-time Australian champion and World Cup winner Ryan Gilchrist in the development of nutritional supplements and a rider program.
Studio Chenchen has worked as SuperDust’s creative partner to turn their business plan into a connected and cohesive brand system and identity. Our services have spanned brand naming to product photoshoots, and we continue to support SuperDust to express their brand across an ever-growing suite of assets. The company is on track for brand-led success. It has become a central part of Australia’s MTB scene, championed by professional riders, elite trainers, respected videographers, and the broader MTB community.
SuperDust’s brand needed to reflect the core mission of the company and the vision of its founders. As part of our standard process, Studio Chenchen takes our clients through a process to identify and distil these goals, developing a brand strategy that culminates in a set of findings and a creative concept.
SuperDust’s brand needed to reflect the core mission of the company and the vision of its founders. As part of our standard process, Studio Chenchen takes our clients through a process to identify and distil these goals, developing a brand strategy that culminates in a set of findings and a creative concept.
Margin Mountains
For SuperDust, the creative concept we identified for the brand is called Margin Mountains. We captured what it means in an adaptive and carefully curated set of Brand Guidelines that turns abstract goals and aspirations into specific design elements, and photographic styles, and asserts a deliberate Tone of Voice.
There’s a simple but hard-to-realise formula for success that sits within SuperDust’s offering: Perseverance + Power = Performance.
In this concept, we’re leaning into the grit that this requires. It’s the harsh reality that success relies on the accumulation of incremental, daily improvements– piece by piece, second by second, grain by grain, habit by habit.
There’s a simple but hard-to-realise formula for success that sits within SuperDust’s offering: Perseverance + Power = Performance.
In this concept, we’re leaning into the grit that this requires. It’s the harsh reality that success relies on the accumulation of incremental, daily improvements– piece by piece, second by second, grain by grain, habit by habit.
Visually, we’re focusing on the elite end of our brand– the aspiration of our riders. We communicate an aesthetic that blends the soul of the outdoors with the performance and competition that drives our riders to our brand. While doing this, we don’t want to lose touch with the fun that riding brings, the spirit that drives it, and the personality of our brand, and the sport.
A suite of wordmark
Our system uses lock-ups in various shapes. The design is refined and up-market. A variety of lock-ups lets us capture different impressions. The central ones communicate our view that training is a science, while more peripheral expressions connect the core brand to the idea that riding is like an outdoors club that fuels adventure and fun in the bush.
Collectively, we keep a raw grass-roots feel but carry a central brand message and visual language that say’s we’re mature and performance oriented.
Collectively, we keep a raw grass-roots feel but carry a central brand message and visual language that say’s we’re mature and performance oriented.
The brand takes shape across an ever-growing landscape of print, digital and environmental assets. It lives in the SuperDuest social media and an e-commerce website, the team uniforms of professional riders, the packaging of nutritional products, and in the collateral used at ride events and stalls.
Key activities so far have included art-directing a photoshoot with MTB riders and brand partners and ambassadors, in collaboration with leading MTB videographers such as Jasper Da Seymour. Alongside this, we maintain brand-led social media strategy that links design templates to different content channels that emphasise different parts of the brand.
SuperDust’s brand takes up nuance and inspiration that is specific to the Australian MTB scene and community it represents. We’ve loved the process, and the output that has let us deliver on a core aspiration of the client: to make SuperDust a brand that expresses something quintessential to Australian MTB, helping it become a stalwart for and of that community.
