adidas x Ultraboost DNA

The Brief

Creation of an overarching Ultraboost DNA Toolkit which creates a unified campaign across four differing colourways. Including Concept dev, design & copy, CGI production & toolkit rollout

The main point of interest to be communicated to consumers is the unique new colourways featured across the packs. As such, the creative should be visually striking in a way that directly relates to each pack.

The target audience is the modern sneaker-head, conscious consumer and sport x style amplifier with tailored concepts for each of them.

PACKS: Animal Print, Black White Noise, Ice Cream, Summer Cookout

Our Response

We wanted to have a conceptual layer that could unite the disparate colourways, which would allow each visual concept to be approached similarly, whilst still embracing the diversity in the look and feel of each colourway.

As each colourway was vibrant, we were inspired by a recent trend called Dopamine Dressing, where people were dressing to make themselves feel good through bold colours and expressive combinations. A perfect accompaniment to this Ultraboost pack.

Execution

We concepted four unique approaches intending to reflect how each shoe’s colourway would make you feel. Animal Print leant into the feeling of brushing your hand over the fur of an animal, Summer Cookout reflected that feeling of laying in the grass on a warm summer day as the mottled light from the sun peeks through the trees, White Noise was heavily inspired by the look of digital sound waves and finally Ice Cream showed a Wonkaesque dive into some bouncy ice creams.

Working with animation studio, Woodwork in Amsterdam, each animation was developed from 3D scans of each shoe and allowed for a more immersive look and feel overall.

Animal Print Colourway

Summer Cookout Colourway

White Noise Colourway

Ice Cream Colourway

Each colourway mocked up in the adidas app

adidas Originals - CRM & APP Campaigns

adidas Originals release multiple products and collections each month, which require communication concepts to run on the adidas website, mobile app and through email/CRM to drive awareness and sales.

Each brief will typically just have the generic catalogue product imagery (as below), with no campaign photography, design, copy or animation.

The challenge is to create a concept through copy, design and animation, to bring these campaigns to life.
They need to reflect the tone and spirit of the products whilst standing out from the noise, expressing product features or benefits and reflect the brand in a premium and creative way in order to capture audiences attention and drive them to explore further

Here is a selection from the second half of 2021…

adidas - Digital Gift Cards

BRIEF

adidas wanted to update the look and feel of their gift cards, as well as the corresponding marketing materials that promote the gift cards on their channels. They tasked us with developing a scaleable design system alongside promotional materials.

APPROACH

After researching competitors and adidas’ own data, we felt that in addition to the main branded cards, we should create cards that carried personal messages as well as a new design approach to all the adidas sponsored football teams.

The main branded cards were updated to correct brand guidelines for sizing and placement, alongside backgrounds inspired by the brand and products. The Originals card simply uses the brand blue with a subtle gradient, whilst the performance card was inspired by the pattern of the soles of adidas shoes.

Updated brand cards

We wanted to create more options for people to send relevant messages, for personal or professional purposes, so building on the successful ‘Happy Birthday’ gift card, we created a system that would allow for other sentiments.

Finally, for the football cards, we referenced a campaign we created earlier in the year for adidas, where we embraced the patterns and textures of each adidas football team jersey to promote a new ‘pastel pack’ release for Man Utd, Arsenal, Juventus and Bayern Munich.

Arsenal Pastel Pack masthead

Final Gift Cards - Brand, Pride, Parley, Personal Messages & Football Clubs

Promo
We then created promotional material featuring the new cards, to be used across adidas’ own channels, including social.

Promo Film for Social

Johnnie Walker 200th Anniversary

Creative & Creative Director

Concepted and led execution of four films to promote four new exclusive releases from Johnnie Walker to celebrate their 200th Anniversary. The films were used across social channels globally to promote the new products.

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Hertz - Cars so great you'll never want to get out

Creative & Creative Director - Robert Waddilove

Hertz rolled out its biggest promotional campaign for several years with a multiplatform, pan-European push of its new Premium fleet of cars, including Audi, Mercedes, Mini, Land Rover and many more.

We positioned Hertz vehicles as the holiday destination, with people trying to spend as much time in them as possible, rather than the environments where they’d normally be expected to jump out to enjoy the surroundings.

A series of three executions features sunbathing in an open-top Mini, fishing from a Land Rover, and people-watching in an idyllic European square from a Mercedes A-Class.

We wanted to create a campaign that reflected the variety of vehicles Hertz offers, along with a benefit that is shared across them all, in a way that felt whimsical and a little tongue in cheek. Playfully showing people using the cars in unexpected ways, whilst shooting the creative to look like a high-end car ad with a hint of nostalgia, brings all of that together.

The campaign ran on TV, VOD, DOOH, digital, print, and social across Europe during Spring/Summer of 2019.

It was one of the most successful campaigns for Hertz in Europe, with the following results:

  • 23% Increase in Sales YoY

  • 12% Increase in Revenue, post campaign

  • Purchase Intent up 53%

  • Brand Search up 19%

In the wild