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Nocturn.
Specialty retail2023

Ferrous

A subscription storefront for a single-origin roaster that wanted to feel like a record label.

Client

Ferrous Coffee

Disciplines

  • Brand
  • Ecommerce
  • Design & build
  • Motion

Credits

Creative Direction
Mira Salovaara
Design
Theo Adeyemi
Engineering
Nocturn Studio

01 — The problem

Ferrous roasts exceptional coffee and sold it through a checkout that felt like a hardware store. Their audience was design-literate and bored by the category's earnest, hand-drawn defaults. They wanted retail that felt like a release schedule.

02 — The approach

We treated each roast as a drop. Product pages are posters: oversized type, a single accent, mono tasting notes laid out like liner credits. The subscription flow is two decisions, not seven. A drag-inertia gallery lets people flick through the catalogue like crates. The whole thing is fast, square, and unapologetically loud.

03 — The outcome

Subscription revenue grew 91% and cart abandonment dropped 22%. Ferrous now plans seasonal drops as marketing events, with the site as the venue.

By the numbers

+91%Subscription revenue
47%Repeat purchase rate
-22%Cart abandonment

Our customers started collecting roasts. The site made coffee feel like culture.

Idris Bello, Founder, Ferrous Coffee

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