Hue&Cry

Identity2025Vinyl subscription club

Velvet Static

A rebrand that made a vinyl club sound as good as it looks.

The brief

Velvet Static had 4,000 loyal subscribers and a logo that looked like a podcast about taxes. Growth had flatlined because nobody shared something they weren't proud to be seen with.

The move

We rebuilt the identity around the physical ritual of vinyl — concentric grooves, sleeve-sized typography, liner-note copywriting. Every monthly drop became a collectible object, not a shipment.

The noise

The unboxing became the marketing. Subscribers started posting their deliveries unprompted, and the waitlist did the rest.

Measured, or it didn't happen

+212%

subscriber growth in 9 months

38%

of signups from member referrals

4.2s

average homepage dwell, up from 0.9

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