INDUSTRY

Beauty, Cosmetics,
Personal Care

SCOPE

Identity & Packaging System, Brand Strategy, Consumer Research, Content Strategy, E-commerce, Nomenclature

Antinorm

The Luxury of Less: Building Antinorm to challenge the beauty industry

We branded Antinorm as the definitive counterpoint to beauty industry excess with the foundational belief that beauty lies in essence, not excess. Our brand strategy established the vision to uncomplicate beauty for good, deliberately challenging industry norms and championing high-performance multifunctional products. Antinorm delivers fast, effective and unapologetically efficient solutions that respect the ultimate luxury: time.

The core of our brand development was crafting Antinorm's fearless personality which cuts through marketing fluff with radical honesty and sass. We created a tone of voice that speaks directly to consumers with refreshing transparency while maintaining wit and engagement. Our design philosophy is all about larger-than-life typography, vibrant photography and punchy colour contrasts that demand attention.

Our brand strategy established the Antinorm Way as a philosophy that challenges every beauty convention: fewer products that actually work, instant results for people who don't have time to wait and luxury minimalism that doesn't sacrifice sensory pleasure. The result is a beauty brand that leads a rebellion from launch, turning simplicity into sophistication and efficiency into elegance while building an Antinorm Army, a community of smart, no-nonsense women who have had enough of products that overpromise and underdeliver.

It’s time for a brand to speak the truth. To bust myths, separate fact from fiction and show a new way.

The Antinorm Way:
A philosophy that challenges
beauty conventions

Fewer products that actually work, instant results for people who don't have time to wait and luxury minimalism that doesn't sacrifice sensory pleasure. The result is a beauty brand that leads a rebellion from launch, turning simplicity into sophistication and efficiency into elegance.

The Antinorm Army:
Taking a brand from
product to movement

Beyond products and packaging, we built a community framework that turns customers into advocates. The Antinorm Army is a community of smart, no-nonsense women who have had enough of products that overpromise and underdeliver. Women who've evolved past impulse buying and beauty industry manipulation. 

Multitasking products for multitasking humans

Aparna Saxena

~ Founder, Antinorm

I always wanted to build a data led company. I wanted to build without a bias without a playbook. I thought, if I repeated patterns, I wasn't bringing a solution to the market. I kept solving first principles, but as I developed Antinorm products, I knew that while originality and value proposition was at the center of it all, it needed to also be visually original.

When I began to visualize what Antinorm would become, Stratedgy became more than my trusted collaborator because they understood the need for originality and research-led design, as well as what our value proposition could be.

The partnership worked beautifully especially because their own research, intermingled with our data model and ground level insights made the entire market testing process seamless and extraordinarily insightful.

As a result, data became the foundation of our work together and delivered striking, genuinely thought-out product design that’s unlike anything else in the market globally and speaks directly to India's dynamic woman on the move.

Here I am sharing the most decisive tidbits from our meetings that brought this vision to life.

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