2026
Tres Palabras
Every brand in this category sells pressure. We built one that sells routine.
- Client
- Thomas O' Sullivan, Eva Pire
- Discipline
- Branding, Art Direction, Brand Strategy, System Design
What did we do
In an era of gamified ed-tech slop, Tres Palabras is a micro-learning platform made with care and intention. By capturing the essence of language into its most primitive form, it allows you to form a meaningful habit and learn 1000 words in a year.
We helped turn a niche idea by Tom and Eva into a brand rooted in heritage and calmness. By rejecting the overly sanitised and gamified aesthetic in favour of the nature and human-ness.
The concern
Every brand in this category sells pressure. Red badges, broken streaks, a cartoon owl that guilts you at 9pm. It works, and it is exhausting.
Remove the pressure and you lose the thing that made the category memorable. That was the brief. Build something calm that still stays in someone's head.
The position
Calm is not an aesthetic here. It is a constraint we wrote down and then enforced.
No exclamation marks. No hype. Nothing that reads as a test. The tagline stays open on purpose: three words with your coffee, your commute, your evening. The brand fills in the gap the reader already has.
- Project Lead
- Udayjeet Kumar Aggarwal
- Graphic Designer
- Prachi Thakur
- Research and Exploration
- Aanya Sharma
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