Independent creative direction, brand, product and development.

MENU / 2026

Brand Design

2026

Sable Collective

Sable Market

An editorial identity and mobile commerce experience for discovering and buying independent fashion, beauty, and design from African creators.

An editorial identity and mobile commerce experience for discovering and buying independent fashion, beauty, and design from African creators.

Overview / The creative premise

Sable Market combines brand strategy, art direction, product design, and commerce thinking. We designed a bold identity and an image-first shopping app where discovery feels editorial and checkout remains effortless.

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Problem

The marketplace had distinctive products but presented them through a generic retail template. Creator stories disappeared, visual quality varied widely, and users struggled to compare products or return to saved discoveries.

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Research

Interviews and diary studies showed that customers browsed by mood, occasion, material, and creator story before category. We also audited vendor workflows to understand where inconsistent imagery and product data entered the system.

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Solution

We created a premium identity, photography direction, flexible content templates, and a mobile product organised around editorial drops, creator profiles, saved boards, and a streamlined multi-vendor checkout.

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Challenges

The interface needed to celebrate varied photography without losing accessibility, speed, or product clarity. We established image standards, responsive crops, performance budgets, and strong information hierarchy.

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Feature 01

Editorial drops mix campaign imagery, products, creator interviews, and short films in a format that moves naturally from inspiration to purchase.

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Feature 02

Creator pages bring process, materials, location, availability, and related products together, giving independent brands context without slowing shopping.

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Feature 03

The commerce system supports saved boards, size intelligence, transparent fulfilment, and a consistent checkout across multiple independent vendors.

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Feature 04

Discovery by mood, material, occasion, and creator turns browsing into an editorial experience that reflects how customers actually imagine a look, object, or room before choosing a category.

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Feature 05

Size intelligence, transparent fulfilment, creator-specific delivery windows, saved measurements, and a unified multi-vendor checkout reduce uncertainty without flattening the independent brands.

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Feature 06

A modular campaign generator combines approved typography, image crops, product data, and creator stories into launch pages, social assets, lookbooks, and retail screens the Sable team can publish quickly.

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Mockups

Mockups

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Prototype

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Key Takeaways

Commerce becomes distinctive when content and utility are designed together. Sable now feels like a cultural platform while behaving like a dependable product.

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