Every brand you see here has been dissected through a strategist’s lens.
Not to admire the aesthetics, but to understand the decisions, tensions, and cultural signals that make the brand work.
These case studies show how brands build relevance and how they lose it.
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Patagonia: The Brand That Told You Not to Buy It
In November 2011, Patagonia took out a full-page advertisement in…
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Blue Tokai: How a Roastery Rewrote India’s Relationship With Coffee
India grows some of the world’s most distinctive coffee. For…
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Nespresso: How a Closed System Became an Open Symbol of Taste
Luxury usually requires a story. A vineyard with a history.…
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Starbucks: How a Coffee Chain Became a Daily Ritual
There is a particular kind of brand that stops being…