Case study 02 / 27

Rippl

A rebrand for India's creator commerce platform, built to be worn, scrolled and shopped.

A chrome hand with rainbow nails holding the black Rippl app icon over green hills and a bright blue sky
Client
Rippl, formerly ReDesyn
Category
Creator commerce · Shoppable content and merch
Scope
Brand identity, mobile app, website, motion
Market
India
Year
2025

01 · Challenge

ReDesyn was built for an earlier creator economy. The new Rippl had to work for creators, fans and shoppers at once, in a market where the feeds they live in are loud, fast and visual.

02 · Approach

We led with the product: a mobile app built around how creators launch and run drops, a one-stroke identity made to be worn, and a campaign and motion system that behaves like a feed.

03 · Outcome

One brand that holds from app icon to billboard to beanie, across app, website, campaign and social, and a relationship that continued after launch.

01The challenge

A creator brand has to earn its place in the same feed as the people it serves, so the identity had to be as confident as they are.

From a merch platform to a place to shop what creators love

Rippl, formerly ReDesyn, is where India's biggest creators launch and run merchandise drops at scale. Its product was growing into something wider: a shopper-tainment marketplace where creators and fans share the products they love and buy them without leaving the app.

The old identity belonged to an earlier chapter of the creator economy. The new brand had to serve three audiences at once: creators launching drops, fans buying into the people they follow, and shoppers looking for what to buy next.

The Rippl website on a laptop among pink clouds and green hills: 'Internet's new way to find What's Next?' with a hand holding the app

02Strategy

Put the creator at the centre, not the checkout

Merch only sells when it feels like the person behind it. Most platforms in this space do the opposite: a white storefront template, a product grid, the creator's name in a corner. We chose to treat every drop as an event and every creator as the headline.

What merch and shopping platforms usually look like

  • A white storefront template, with the creator's name in a corner
  • Product grids first, the people behind them second
  • A brand that disappears the moment it's printed on a T-shirt

What Rippl does instead

  • Creators at the centre of every screen, poster and post
  • Every drop treated as an event, with a campaign around it
  • An identity loud enough to wear, on hoodies, beanies, cups and billboards
Brand line

It starts with you

Positioning

For India's creators turning an audience into a brand, Rippl is the platform that makes launching and shopping a drop as easy as posting, so every product feels like it came from them.

  1. 01

    Creator first

    Every surface leads with a person: creators, fans and the products they share, never an empty product shot.

  2. 02

    Made to be worn

    A mark and palette that hold up on fabric, metal, paper cups and a phone screen, not only on a slide.

  3. 03

    Loud on purpose

    Electric violet, lime and pink, expressive type and 3D objects: the energy of the feeds these creators live in.

03Identity

A mark drawn in one stroke

The new symbol is a single looping line that forms the R, closer to a signature than a logo. A signature is personal, which is the point: the brand should read as a creator's own mark. It works as an app icon, a chain pendant and an embroidered beanie, and it unwinds into a spiral that carries the brand through motion.

Around it sits a core palette of electric violet and near-black, lifted by lime and pink. Ivy Presto Display, a high-contrast serif, carries headlines against Open Sauce Sans for the product, so the brand can be editorial on a poster and clear on a checkout screen.

The Rippl R symbol unwinding into a rainbow gradient spiral on black
An embroidered 'Rippl It Starts With You!' beanie beside the app icon on its construction grid
A man in a purple knit jumper holding a diamond-studded Rippl chain pendant, his hands covered in jewelled rings
Rippl brand guidelines: logo mark, incorrect uses, gradients, colour combinations, core palette, typography, iconography and type hierarchy

A system, not a logo

The guidelines cover the mark and its misuses, gradients, colour pairings, iconography and type hierarchy, so the brand holds up when Rippl's team and its creators make things with it.

04Campaign

It Starts With You, everywhere

We built the launch campaign around the brand line and the people it speaks to. Posters, billboards and building wraps put creators front and centre, and the app is never more than a glance away. Headlines in the campaign talk the way the audience does, such as 'Put Your Taste On Payroll' and 'Gatekeeping Out, Earning In'.

A violet 'It Starts With You!' poster beside a photo of hands wearing Rippl rings against yellow
Three Rippl posters in a subway passage: 'It Starts With You', 'Put Your Taste On Payroll' and 'Gatekeeping Out, Earning In'
A Rippl billboard on a train platform: 'Rippl It Starts With You!' with app store badges
A violet Rippl heart pendant beside a building wrap of the 'It Starts With You' campaign

A brand you can pick up

The identity was designed for objects as well as screens. Gift vouchers, coffee cups, notebooks and stickers carry the same looping line and the same colour, so a fan meets Rippl in a café as easily as in the app.

Rippl gift vouchers on pavement, a black 'It Starts With You' coffee cup, and an in-app ad: 'Shop what creators recommend'
A 'Build Your Rippl Crew!' poster with two creators, next to a Rippl notebook on a café table
A Rippl-branded café menu and a man covered in Rippl stickers holding a branded dessert cup

05Motion and social

A brand that moves like a feed

Rippl lives where its audience scrolls, so the identity had to work as motion and as templates, not just as a logo. The spiral unwinds, 3D objects tumble through layouts, and a system of posts and banners keeps every drop, referral and hire on brand, whoever on the team makes it.

A collage of creators and 3D objects floating over an electric violet spiral
A Rippl launch announcement, 'Internet's New Way To Find What's Next?', beside the rippl.shop Instagram grid of violet, lime and black posts
Three Rippl social posts on pink: 'Refer your friends & earn Rizz Points', 'We're hiring' and 'Download the app now'
A set of Rippl web banners in black, violet and lilac with app store badges

06App and website

Designed around how creators launch drops

We led with the product. The app is built around the way creators actually work: set up a drop, share it with their audience and run it from their phone. For fans, it is a feed of what creators are wearing and recommending, shoppable in a tap, with no searching and no switching apps.

A hand holding a phone showing the Rippl app: 'Discover what the world's been watching'
Creator profile cards in the app over green hills, beside a Rippl tote bag with a QR code

Onboarding that does the work

Riva, Rippl's AI assistant, reads a creator's public content and sets up their MyRippl page, so a new creator starts with a storefront instead of a blank form.

The Riva AI onboarding screen, 'Riva AI is building your MyRippl', beside a chrome Rippl wordmark

A website that lets creators and brands do the talking

The website turns the same ideas into proof. Creator testimonials sit beside brand logos in stickers cut from the brand's own shapes, so social proof feels like part of the identity, not a strip pasted underneath it.

A 'Trusted by thousands of creators' website section with creator testimonials and brand logos on shaped stickers

07Impact & proof

10K+
Creators launching merch storefronts
Series A
Backed creator commerce platform
10M+
Combined fan community reach

Metrics published by Rippl as of 2025 across active creator storefronts.

Brand

  • Identity and symbol
  • Colour and type system
  • Iconography
  • Brand guidelines

Product and web

  • Mobile app UX/UI
  • Creator drop flows
  • Onboarding with Riva
  • Website design

Campaign and motion

  • Launch campaign
  • Out-of-home, print and merchandise
  • Social templates
  • Motion system
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