EPISTEME SKINCARE RANGE LAUNCH

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TitleEPISTEME SKINCARE RANGE LAUNCH
BrandROHTO PHARMACEUTICAL CO
Product / ServiceEPISTEME
CategoryA01. Corporate Identity Schemes
EntrantDENTSU KANSAI Osaka, JAPAN
Entrant Company:DENTSU KANSAI Osaka, JAPAN
Design/Advertising Agency:DENTSU KANSAI Osaka, JAPAN

Credits

Credits

Name Company Position
Shinichi Tada DENTSU INC. KANSAI Creative Director
Yoshihiro Yagi DENTSU INC. KANSAI Art Director
Yoshihiro Yagi DENTSU INC. KANSAI Designer
Emi Goto DENTSU INC. KANSAI Copywriter
Jun Katogi DENTSU INC. KANSAI Producer
Tomofumi Hayashi DENTSU INC. Account Manager
Akiko Nakasone DENTSU INC. Account Manager
Naoko Tsuji DENTSU INC. KANSAI Account Manager
Taiji Kimura Katachi Co.,Ltd. Designer
Karsten Trappe Illustrator
Takeshi Arimoto Style Printing.Co Printing Producer

Brief Explanation

We developed the communication strategy as follows: Increase the rarity value: products are sold only in two major cities, one store for each. Make audience imagine the Beauty of Skin without using female models which is totally diffrent approach amongst competitors. Position as "special brand for appreciators" with abstruct/artistic visual, ?philosophical phrases, and the minimum product info.

The Brief

Our goal was to launch the luxury skin-care brand for department stores from pharmaceutical company. We needed to create the unique / distinct brand in the very crowded anti-aging market. Our target was Female 30's & 40's of affluent lifestyle being intellectually curious about many things.

How the final design was conceived

In order to nurture loyal users who won't easily switch to another product,

Indication of how successful the outcome was in the market

Our brand has attracted much attention from not only female magazines but economic magazines, and been featured in many of them. 75% of female from 20's to 50's said in the brand research that 'episteme is the innovative new brand I've never seen, and it seems to have highly-promising function as well"