Smlin

Smlin

Smlin

Business Case: Radical Optimism?

Florent Coudyeser founded Smlin to reimagine connection from the inside out. The challenge was balancing abstract culture shift with tangible infrastructure, avoiding the vague moral signaling common in HR practices. We needed to give the vision structural weightl positioning the platform not as a service to be bought, but as a way to experience life and work.

Year

2024

Industry

Members Only Club

Scope of work

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Web Design

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Go-to-market Strategy

Timeline

12 weeks

Business Case: Radical Optimism?

Florent Coudyeser founded Smlin to reimagine connection from the inside out. The challenge was balancing abstract culture shift with tangible infrastructure, avoiding the vague moral signaling common in HR practices. We needed to give the vision structural weightl positioning the platform not as a service to be bought, but as a way to experience life and work.

Year

2024

Industry

Members Only Club

Scope of work

/

Web Design

/

Go-to-market Strategy

Timeline

12 weeks

Art Direction: Web Design

Art Direction: Web Design

We translated Radical Optimism from a feeling into a digital physics. The web experience is designed as a journey of active discovery rather than passive reading, anchored by the "smile and scroll" interaction that transforms entry friction into engagement.

Visually, we balanced the high-frequency energy of the Smlin form and vibrant motion-led iconography against a stark, editorial grid. This contrast ensures the platform feels undeniably human and high-energy, while maintaining the structural authority required to host a B2B ecosystem including the signature Smlin offerings such as the Flag, Collective, and the Hub.

Brand Identity:

Brand Identity:

Smlin provides founders with the structure to act on what they claim to value.

This commission was an opportunity to give lasting form to a growing movement—one that places ethics and emotional intelligence at the core of modern leadership.

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Atelier WOO is an artist-led strategy and branding studio based in New York + Amsterdam. We build brands that make people feel something they can't really describe. We co-create with founders who produce real value. And just like them, we build everything by hand.

Atelier WOO is an artist-led strategy and branding studio based in New York + Amsterdam. We build brands that make people feel something they can't really describe. We co-create with founders who produce real value. And just like them, we build everything by hand.