Content Development
Brand Storytelling
Copywriting
Brand Identity
For American workwear it doesn’t get more classic than bib overalls. The Texas-based Liberty brand has made its name by selling the same tough and true green-zippered bib overalls, mostly unchanged since 1912. After its purchase by VF Corporation, Liberty enlisted Voicebox West to both built out its brand voice from a century-long history and a grassroots following that ran deep but was not being utilized from a brand standpoint. That project led to our shop developing all the content and brand story elements for their 2019 website rebuild with design agency RFTB, including all product copy and four in-depth customer stories that spoke to the heart of the brand.
The results were impressive. The summary included a 427% annual increase for DTC ecommerce, a 422% increase in site traffic, a 138% increase in conversion and a big increase in time on a dramatically improved site that fused both commerce and brand identity. While the initial timeline was rapid, Voicebox crafted a brand identity from scratch with existing clay and built on the grassroots strength of the brand for a positive growth result. At the same time we delivered copy built to last that struck an authentic tone for a brand that lives by the same ethic.
Modern Homesteading in the Blue Ridge
At the center of this movement is Josh Draper, known to his massive YouTube channel audience as the Stoney Ridge Farmer. Raised on a 350-acre cattle farm in Virginia, but stuck on 1/3 of an urban acre beekeeping and raising organic veggies, Draper had a vision to return to country life in a big way. He and his wife took the leap of ownership of 200 acres of brushy, overgrown former tobacco farmland in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains with a long-term vision to return the raw land to health, prosperity and sustainability. Through more than 600 entertaining and informative videos he’s documented the never-ending journey of working the land back into productive harmony.
Raised Right in Liberty
Five generations rooted in Liberty is not a story you hear every day. But from the small Tennessee town of Spring City we caught wind of a grandfather who wore his Liberty Overalls nearly every day of his life and passed his ethic on. Raising three kids on his paint-and-body shop business, handing out Halloween candy or whittling cedar on the front porch while the grandkids went for his green zipper to get dollars for ice cream—he was Liberty Overalls for all occasions. He passed his love for Liberty to his grandkids—buying them a pair from the local general store almost as soon as they could walk.
Painting the Town
Born and raised in Bowling Green, Kentucky, artist Andee Rudloff has a mission to bring public art to communities and to bring communities together through public art. Known for her giant outdoor murals in the small towns of Kentucky and the local neighborhoods of Nashville, Rudloff has been changing landscapes with bright, visual murals that span 25 years. With what she calls more of a working class approach and background from her Kentucky roots, Rudloff swears by her well-worn Liberties as her standby uniform when creating murals that center towns and neighborhoods, whether rural or urban.