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Spinnova

Giving a new fibre a clear story.

Client
Spinnova
Project
Brand story
Year
[PLACEHOLDER: project year]
Sector
Textile fibre
My role
Brand story
Themes
Sustainability, Transformation, Technology
Sheet
11
Fig. 01
Aerial forest image with Spinnova’s brand promise: Drawn from nature, imagined by humanity.
Brand promise: Drawn from nature, imagined by humanity.

I developed the brand story for Spinnova’s textile-fibre innovation, translating a different manufacturing technology into a story the market could understand.

01 System

Helping people understand a new possibility

An unfamiliar technology asks an audience to learn something before it can decide why it matters. In textiles, that explanation also needs to connect with an established world of materials, manufacturing and finished products.

Spinnova’s fibre innovation created a storytelling task at that intersection. The brand needed language that could help people understand the significance of the technology and place it within a larger view of the industry.

Fig. 02
Infographic, From waste to fabric: food, agricultural and textile waste streams flowing into Spinnova fibre.
The brand story connects fibre innovation with the audience’s understanding of textiles.

02 Story

My contribution

I developed the brand story, working on the connection between what the technology does and what it could make possible. The writing needed to give the audience a way into the subject and a clear idea to carry away.

That meant paying attention to the order of the story: establishing the opportunity, explaining the company’s contribution and giving the innovation a meaningful place in the reader’s understanding of textiles. A coherent narrative helps each technical detail contribute to the same overall picture.

Fig. 03
Story slide, Spinning our yarn: the opening lines of the brand narrative.
Selected narrative passages show how the technology is introduced and explained.

03

A foundation for communication

The deliverable was a brand story that made the innovation more accessible to the market. It provided a common narrative for explaining the company and the significance of its technology.

The project reflects a recurring part of my work: helping technically ambitious businesses find language that people can understand, remember and use in their own conversations.

Selected artefacts

Fig. 04
Slide outlining the narrative structure of the Spinnova brand story.
The story blueprint: set-up, inciting incident, conflict, stakes, climax and resolution.
My role

Brand story.

What we created
  • Brand story