Bad Apple

Branding for a streetwear brand

Scope
Brand Strategy, User research Visual Identity, Packaging, Website Design
About
Year: 2024
Studio Sorted created the complete brand identity for Bad Apple, an Indian streetwear label built for misfits. From rebellious visual design to a sharp, satirical voice, we crafted a brand that doesn’t follow trends—it disturbs them. Every detail, from logo to label, feeds the chaos. This wasn’t just branding. It was a movement, stitched into streetwear.
In a world of good apples, some were never meant to behave.

Studio Sorted shaped this brand with a vision that wasn’t polished, polite, or even particularly clear—except in one way: this streetwear brand was made for the misfits. For the misunderstood, the ironic, the bold. For those who don’t follow trends—they break them.They didn’t want a fashion label.
They wanted a movement stitched into every drop. As a creative branding studio based in India, we knew this was more than a visual identity project. We were building the heartbeat of a rebellion.
The Strategy:
Brand Identity for the Misfit Generation
Bad Apple was never going to fit into the typical Indian fashion market. And that was the point.We grounded the entire brand strategy in the underdog spirit—the ones who were never picked first, never handed the map, but always found their way. This wasn’t rebellion for the sake of it. It was defiance rooted in truth.The brand needed to feel young, sharp, and deliberate in its disorder. From tone of voice to visuals, every decision was made to speak directly to India’s Gen Z—especially those seeking something raw, something real.This was youth fashion branding that chose chaos on purpose.
Visual Identity:
A Beautiful Rot
Streetwear brands are visual cultures. And Bad Apple was no exception. But this identity had to rot a little—to feel lived-in, scratched-up, drawn over, and thrown around. We leaned into it.The logo refused symmetry, with a tilted apple that mocked perfection.
The color palette drew from rebellion—Poison Ink, Red Apple, Parchment, Green Apple, Forbidden Land.
The typography system used the Rubik font family in stretched, glitched, and mono forms. No headline looked clean, and that was by design.We created citizenship stamps for the “Republic of Bad Apple.”
Merchandise tags became manifestos.
Even the white space felt like it was about to snap.This was brand identity design for a streetwear label in India that didn’t just want to look cool. It wanted to look disruptive.
Tone of Voice: Talk Loud. Say Less.
Good brands communicate.
Bad Apple provoked.Studio Sorted crafted a tone of voice that sounded like the friend who roasts you but always has your back. Sharp, cocky, and weirdly comforting.

This wasn’t just copywriting—it was cultural code.
Lines like “Take the bite,” “Deadass Killing,” and “You are now a citizen of Bad Apple” became part of the brand’s signature vocabulary.

The voice didn’t try to explain the brand.
It was the brand.If you're searching for examples of brand voice design for Indian fashion brands, this is it. Bad Apple became instantly recognizable by how it spoke—even before you saw what it wore.
Drops, Not Products: Packaging the Disruption
Every product had to feel like an event. Not a launch, but a disturbance.
We created systems where the packaging told a story before the product was even seen.

Pizza boxes were used to deliver tees.
Fridge magnets were used to announce drops.
T-shirt tags were stylised as declarations from a rogue nation.

From streetwear merchandise tag design to experimental product drops, everything was on-brand and off-script.

Because good packaging informs.
Bad Apple packaging interrupts.
Content & Collateral: Feed the Chaos
Streetwear brands live online.
So we built a digital content system to match the real-world energy of Bad Apple.
Using unique formats like:
Apple Windows: surreal product shots framed within the brand’s apple icon
Chaos Carousels: layered collages that teased collections in a disorderly scroll
Citizen Features: customers became characters in the brand’s story

We handed over not just assets, but a flexible social media system for Bad Apple to run with.
A system built for lo-fi disruption, built to let the voice breathe.This wasn’t just another fashion feed. It felt like a coded language only insiders understood.
Coming soon:
Brand strategy, brand persona, verbal identity, T-shirt design, Packaging, Launch campaign and Product photography
Team
User research: Vrinda Gupta, Afeef Khan
Graphic design & Illustration: Afeef Khan, Vrinda Gupta, Anshul Gupta, Tanmay Acharya
Copywriting: Devargh Mukherjee, Vrinda Gupta, Kashish Choudhary
Creative direction: Abhishek Durani