Team Créatif

THE INTELLIGENCE
OF NATURE

Challenge :Affirm and modernize a historic phytotherapy laboratory without diluting its pharmaceutical credibility, while reconnecting nature, science and health within one coherent system.

Group and company : Arkopharma is a French pioneer of phytotherapy that has spent decades translating the power of plants into science-backed health solutions.

Potential : In 2021, the complementary medicine market was entering a new therapeutic era. Competition was intensifying, innovation cycles were accelerating and pharmacy shelves were becoming saturated. A historic player in dietary supplements was losing visibility, fragmented across sub-brands and product-led claims. The challenge was to regain leadership in a category it had originally helped to shape.

Creative Solution

BACK TO THE ROOT

We began with immersion: workshops, site visits, and conversations with pharmacists, botanists and internal teams. This allowed us to reposition the brand around a clear role: creating a tangible link between the intelligence of nature and scientific expertise, in service of health and wellbeing. From this strategic foundation, we rebuilt the architecture to prioritize the masterbrand and clarify the portfolio across key therapeutic areas: vitality, beauty,
women’s health and sleep.
Logo before/after: Arkopharma Laboratoires becomes Arko Pharma

NOT INGREDIENTS OUTCOMES

Design became a tool for navigation and empowerment: a simplified identity, a central icon uniting plant and science, and a coherent color system structured around therapeutic areas. Packaging was redesigned to lead with what consumers feel, not what the formula contains: from ingredient-led to life-led, from “what’s in it” to “what it does for you.”