This campaign came my way because the client needed accurate consistency and a single point of proven design reference that could naturally wrangle a spectrum of deliverables and quickly iterate based on stakeholder feedback and adjustments in creative scope.
The nitty gritty of OOH (Out-of-Home) outdoor advertising formats became something fast-familiar as I helped this campaign to also dazzle throughout larger screens as OOH advertising has become more relevant within media-buys and campaign reach.
It's Your Run creative graced the backdrop of countless selfies as the full-motion campaign messaging was seen throughout the synchronized digital large format screens of 2nd & Pacific Coast Highway across the idyllic glow of Long Beach Marina.
Gaining an understanding between the moment captured visually and how that communicates our shared humanity by way of cropping and placement appropriate to the space of the display ad unit became something second nature as I carried forward the intent of the campaign tone and voice.
Kevani Digital OOH Motion Billboard - Phase 1.5
Spotify Companion Banner - Phase 1 (a)
Spotify Companion Banner - Phase 3 (c)
Spotify Companion Banner - Phase 2 (b)
Spotify Companion Banner - Phase 1 (d)
Reddit Banner - Phase 3 (a)
Reddit Banner - Phase 3 (b)
Company
Brooks Running
Campaign
Caldera 7
Assigned Display
36+ Ad Units
Role
Design, Asset Selects
Campaign Notes
A sense of journey was communicated through the proficient use of masking and the inclusion of confidently peaked silhouettes also complimented my unified structuring of campaign messaging allowing for that certain absolute visual distinction.
Purposeful and abrupt clipping throughout the background visual treatment helped to articulate the surreal variety of terrain along the journey in relation to texture as no single masked section truly encroaches into another. This formed distinct individual snapshots of texture therein akin to more surreal singular moments complimenting the overall totality of the long haul experience.
300x600 - Womens
300x600 - Mens
300x250 - Womens 300x250 - Mens
1940x500 - Womens
1940x500 - Mens
Company
CDK Global
Campaign
Dream Machine
Assigned Display
6 Ad Units
Role
Design, Animation
Campaign Notes
Having animated and designed dozens and dozens of successful and engaging banner campaigns since, I have to say this particular banner campaign yet dazzles.
This still resonates as a fantastic design solve, as the stadium lights flash in some fantastic sequence and those fairy sprinkles, animated by frame-craft and asset duplication (instances) to save on file size.
I choose to keep this fabulous piece of creative around to keep on inspiring oneself that there will always be a time when apt implementation of creativity, asset optimization, and a thoughtful cadence for what thrills never truly fades away.
Company
Forex Capital Markets
Campaign
Desktop Launch
Assigned Display
6 Ad Units
Role
Design, Animation
Campaign Notes
It was with this type of creative content that I learned to keyframe in the financial district in my early days where I learned to sync with the project managers, stakeholders, the approval, etc, so whatever creative that was aptly designed actually launched on time.
Building that parallel synchronicity with media strategy teams that made it all so dynamic and kinda fun. It is something that I still find interesting. Design is fun but so is launching within scope and launching on time, thats even more fun, that totality of the process.
Foreign currency exchange (forex) is still kickin' but nowadays it has made space for endlessly interesting decentralized coins that have picked up the ethereal momentum of the financial zeitgeist.
I also find it kind of interesting how the web banner has evolved as the consumer responds with an ever sophisticated sense of the moment.
Paid social is now the main arena where most of the animated fun happens because that is where the consumer is now currently making that initial brand discovery.
What had worked nominally, a few years ago with animated ads and their HTML5 equivalents has evolved into the glory that is personalized programmatic DCO ads that work the personalization jar like none other based on relevant site cart history with legacy statics filling the little spend voids.
I remain grateful for learning and remaining part of this human process as the consumer continues to delight and surprise us all.