We Make Heart

We Make Heart Heart is a brand company and creative studio. The brands we help create don’t just place, they lead.

Thank you  ! We ordered some tea and got some extra tasty treats! Such a great company can’t wait to order more ! 😃🫖⛩️🩷🇯...
03/30/2025

Thank you ! We ordered some tea and got some extra tasty treats! Such a great company can’t wait to order more ! 😃🫖⛩️🩷🇯🇵

More coming soon…Anti-Gift Guide 2023
12/18/2023

More coming soon…Anti-Gift Guide 2023

Anti-Gift Guide Day 3
12/15/2023

Anti-Gift Guide Day 3

Day 2: No notes!!
12/14/2023

Day 2: No notes!!

It’s beginning to look a lot like gifting season! As a present to you, which may serve as some inspiration, our Anti-Gif...
12/13/2023

It’s beginning to look a lot like gifting season! As a present to you, which may serve as some inspiration, our Anti-Gift Guide is here.

We have an extensive partnership with  to grow their brand legacy.Our challenge within the Dassault Systemes product uni...
10/06/2023

We have an extensive partnership with to grow their brand legacy.

Our challenge within the Dassault Systemes product universe was to define and create new market headroom, offset declining brand love, and get out of a creative funk.

We created “Build It”, a digital experience that takes users through the process of creating their own product development company, using Dassault Systemes’ new cloud-based platform, 3DEXPERIENCE Works.

Our creative process identifies two areas of knowledge, your brand’s Timeless Brand Truth and Timely Cultural Opportunity.

For Dassault Systemes, delving into these two arenas led us to define our new objective: Demystifying the system by making it human.

When we know our goals, then we can create.

The result is a new glimpse into the inner workings of the product development lifecycle, and allows users to envision themselves in their own unique creative universe.

Our Founder, Thomas O’Connell, writes about rediscovering the joy of creating for its own sake in our newsletter, Inspo ...
10/05/2023

Our Founder, Thomas O’Connell, writes about rediscovering the joy of creating for its own sake in our newsletter, Inspo From Out There.

Read at the link in our bio.

We have enjoyed a very broad strategic and executional relationship with . We partnered with their external and internal...
09/15/2023

We have enjoyed a very broad strategic and executional relationship with .

We partnered with their external and internal creative teams to launch 14 product lines deployed across 70+ markets globally, with everything designed to be modular and re-skinnable.

Our Case Study: Puma Jamming

Envisioning & Defining:
We always start by outlining the brand's Timeless Brand Truth and Timely Cultural Opportunity. We do this through a Cultural, Business, and Market brand audit with interviews and competitive analysis. We believe when these two statements come together, we achieve the brand's core objective for creative strategy.

Defining an Objective:
Once we identify the Timeless Truth and Timely Opportunity, we define our objective. For Puma Jamming, this was to Build an emotional connection by deconstructing the technical experience.

Creative Concept & Strategy:
We translated bespoke to retail and detailed an experience that felt unique and special, while maintaining the grandeur of a global brand.

Our success with Puma brought technical stories to life in an emotionally relevant way, activating across Design, Innovation, Prototyping, PR, Collaborations, and Branded Retail Experiences.

About AlchemistaOur collective goal: Launch a new kind of corporate catering company.One that refused to sacrifice the i...
09/01/2023

About Alchemista

Our collective goal: Launch a new kind of corporate catering company.

One that refused to sacrifice the importance of food at work for standardized menus and diminished margins.

Phoodeez (their name before we worked with them) had 100+ clients ordering meals on an irregular basis from a list of 200+ different restaurants.

As a team of 10 people, operational failures were everywhere - and control of the product and brand nearly impossible.

But the opportunity was rich.

In an effort to win the talent war, businesses were increasingly looking to provide at-work benefits - and before unlimited PTO - great food at work was first ones to take off.

The strategy saw Heart uncover the opportunity - catering companies.

Caterers operate heavily on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays. The brand opportunity was to activate that workforce and bring it to use during the week.

We all know that food is more than functional nutrition. It’s comfort, sustenance, communion, love. At work, choosing a meal we genuinely love creates a unique opportunity to ground ourselves and emotionally recharge. It’s no surprise then that we value our work lunches so highly.

The brand strategy and name were founded on the insight that when you bring two tangibles together (amazing food and inspired workplaces), in proper mix, you create a greater work culture.

Gracenote CoffeeCoffee is the largest traded commodity outside of gasoline, and it is often treated just like that.With ...
08/31/2023

Gracenote Coffee

Coffee is the largest traded commodity outside of gasoline, and it is often treated just like that.

With this packaging project, we felt that Gracenote’s concept could be more premium and narrative driven, highlighting all the senses that are heightened upon drinking the world’s best coffee. The updated packaging is deceptively simple and beautiful, learning from the belief that great design can be focused - highlighting the product itself.

We still visit Gracenote often for a truly awesome cup of coffee.

Brothers ArtisanalWe were tasked with launching a brand in a highly competitive, homogenous CPG marketplace. We turned t...
08/30/2023

Brothers Artisanal

We were tasked with launching a brand in a highly competitive, homogenous CPG marketplace.

We turned the functional nature of the ingredients into an emotional story - making each element an object of interest and desire.

The result was a series of packaging artfully designed that is a beacon of difference in aisle and grab and go.

Mother Dirt (Premium Cosmetics)We were brought on to help a skincare brand called AOBiome launch a new, consumer-oriente...
08/24/2023

Mother Dirt (Premium Cosmetics)

We were brought on to help a skincare brand called AOBiome launch a new, consumer-oriented product in a way that didn’t shout CLINICAL.

We took the opportunity to capture the maternal, human-cloaking nature of the product and own the word “mother”. On the other side, the product itself is a kind of synthesized dirt. We combined the two, playing off of “Mother Earth,” to create Mother Dirt.

The packaging focused on creating a clear distinction between “front label” (pick it up because it's interesting) and “back label” (sell the science).

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