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We Sell Tape

The most boring product on earth, sold like it matters

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Brand strategy

Voice

Art direction

Commerce

We Sell Tape is a self-initiated concept brand built around one question: how much can brand do for a product with no difference at all? Tape is the definition of a commodity. Nobody has a favorite, and nobody picks one on purpose.

The answer is a voice and a stage. The voice is deadpan and completely committed to the bit: two options, both are tape. The stage is cinematic: rolls rain onto the page, a single roll trundles across the screen to uncover the testimonial, and the pack turns in the light like a flagship launch. Underneath the joke is a working store, with a real cart and checkout.

First principles03
01

Commit to the bit

One tone, everywhere. "Three rolls. Because one is not enough and four is too many and we thought about it a lot." Honesty about a product with nothing to hide becomes the positioning.

02

Launch it like a flagship

Scroll-driven film, a roll that turns exactly as far as it travels, a pack that spins in the light. Giving a commodity the treatment usually saved for a phone is the whole argument.

03

Ask before you stock

A colorway poll takes a vote and an email for each new color, so demand is measured, and the first buyers are waiting, before a single roll is made.

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