Toyota \ See Like Menna
Toyota \ See Like Menna
Imagine skiing down a mountain at 100 km/h. Now imagine skiing down a mountain at 100 km/h, but you can barely see where you're going. Meet Menna, a visually impaired Para alpine skier that only has 3% vision. Every visually impaired skier competes with help from a sighted guide. A Bluetooth headset allows Menna and her guide Jen to communicate on the slope. Communication is everything in visually impaired skiing. The smallest mishap can mean the difference between medaling and wiping out.
To convey Menna’s perception of the world as accurately as possible, a visual impairment filter was created in conjunction with Menna and Jen, with input from the Royal National Institute for the Blind in London and a team of ophthalmic consultants.
The See Like Menna experience continues with a 360 video that showcases the difference between the three different Paralympic classifications for visual impairment. The video allows people to experience skiing as a B1, B2, and B3 skier.
Perhaps the most intriguing part of this video, is the run showing the POV of the B1 skier, Marek. B1 skiers have no light perception at all. They rely solely on commands projected from a megaphone strapped to their guide's back.
Warner Bros / Back To Hogwarts
Warner Bros / Back To Hogwarts
In the Harry Potter wizarding world, September first is the day Hogwarts students pack their trunks and head to Platform 9 3/4 for another year at school. In the muggle world, Back To Hogwarts day has become a day for Harry Potter fans to celebrate— both virtually and in real life—around the globe. Through both social filters and a ‘live’ online showcase, we united Potterheads both new and diehard, creating awareness and excitement for the most important day on the wizarding calendar.
A 35 minute live-to-tape showcase on September 1st featuring influencer fans sharing exciting announcements from around the globe.
For most Gen-Z, who didn't grow up with the series, Harry Potter is a punchline. An ‘ok, boomer’ burn for Millenials who consider their Hogwarts house a personality trait. So to celebrate Back To Hogwarts day 2023, we needed to help Gen-Z discover the magic and endear the series to them in a meaningful, and non-cheugy way. We created Instagram and TikTok filters that future-fans could personalize with their own brand of magic and carve out their unique identity in the wizarding world.
With the Chocolate Frog effect, Potterheads created their very own Famous Witch or Wizard card. By uploading their photo and choosing their magical accomplishment from over 30 pre-written descriptions, fans were able to create their own custom card that reflected their personality and interests.
On TikTok, the Misspelled filter helped fans brush up on their spell-casting skills before the start of school—and showed them what happens when magic goes wrong. We blurred the lines between the muggle and magical world, celebrating Back To Hogwarts day by giving new and diehard Potterheads a chance to become a part of the stories like never before.
To promote Back To Hogwarts 2023 on Harry Potter social channels, we created paid and organic assets to get fans excited for the big day.
Using a combination of footage from the films and popular meme format, we sent the proverbial owl out to fans everywhere—reminding them to mark their calendars for September 1st.
We also partnered with our influencer hosts to create BTS content of the Back To Hogwarts live event and reach a broader audience beyond our owned @HarryPotter channels.
We even sent them a Howler!
Getty Museum \ Persepolis
Getty Museum \ Persepolis
2500 years ago, ancient Persia was a shining example of a prosperous, multicultural civilization. Yet despite many progressive innovations, the Persian Empire is often overlooked in Western reviews of history. To elevate the empire in the eyes of the world, the Getty Villa needed a digital experience that would extend their Persia exhibition far beyond the museum walls.
Persepolis Reimagined is an immersive WebGL experience that transports users back in time to discover the ancient capital of Persepolis. Exploring a detailed 3D recreation, visitors can discover the grand palaces and intimate courtyards of the citadel firsthand.
A simple scrolling interface allowed users to move at their own pace, mirroring an actual path a visiting emissary would have traveled.
On their journey, users encountered digitized artifacts from the exhibition—grouped by theme and placed inside related Persepolis structures. By placing these objects in spaces, instead of a traditional academic format, we not only educated, but created empathy by humanizing these ancient objects.
In addition to the predetermined path, a global map view and artifact catalog allows users to jump between buildings, hotspots with optional audio and text content in any order.
Persepolis Reimagined reinvented the traditional museum experience—giving users an opportunity to not only learn about history, but live it.
Persepolis: The Palace Experience offers visitors to the Getty Villa a journey into the ancient city of Persepolis as it might have looked at the height of its splendor.
Through a detailed, historically-accurate
3D model, this 360° experience recreates the columned palaces, vast plazas, and towering sculptures of the citadel, reimagined at scale for the first time since the city's destruction thousands of years ago.
Harley-Davidson \ H-D 21
Harley-Davidson \ H-D 21
Every year, the journey starts at Harley-Davidson’s annual model year launch event—where the iconic motorcycle brand showcases new bikes to dealers, up close and personal. But with things looking a little different this year, Harley-Davidson took the road less traveled– challenging the way things have always been done. To redefine heritage and tradition for a changed future, the Harley-Davidson Way.
To launch Model Year 2021, the annual dealer meeting became the first ever, global, virtual event in Harley-Davidson’s 118 year history. It was a decisive moment for every rider around the world—a celebration of the timeless pursuit of adventure and freedom for the soul.
During the virtual event, four brand new models made their debut. But instead of simply showcasing tech and specs, we told stories. Four, mini-documentary films embodied Harley’s diverse global audience and captured the spirit of what it means to be a rider in each of their own words.
A keynote presentation followed each film, featuring Harley-Davidson experts highlighting every meticulously crafted detail in each new model in-depth.
But the launch was more than a moment to engage and interact with the brand in a new way—it redefined what it means to be a Harley-Davidson rider, re-engineering an iconic brand for the road ahead...
TikTok \ Pride 2021
TikTok \ Pride 2021
For Pride 2021, we wanted an epic month-long celebration to inspire creativity and bring joy to the LGBTQIA+ community. An integrated campaign, #FreeToBe was a global rallying cry that featured four festive livestreams, iconic hosts, legendary musical performances, trailblazer content creators, and a partnership with LA Pride.
Toyota \ Thin Ice
Toyota \ Thin Ice
This film follows the story of Ashley Wagner, a figure skater who overcame traumatic effects of six concussions to win an Olympic medal in 2014. But when Ashley ended up not making the 2018 Olympic team, we saw an opportunity to create a truly unique Olympic ad. The VFX was finished and the VO recorded, but with the removal of a super that talked about her concussions, the ad took on a whole new meaning.
Thank to tax reform, taxes were even more complicated than usual for Americans this year. H&R Block, a leading tax prep company, knew that taxpayers were seriously stressed out and needed some relief. So on the most stressful day of the year, we turned Tax Day into Relax Day by live-streaming the most relaxed animal on the planet: a sloth. Starting at 9AM EST, #SlothStream featured Paco the Sloth relaxing in our H&R “Block”—a green environment inspired by our logo. A relaxing ambient soundtrack set the mood, creating a continuous atmosphere of calm for the whole 12-hour stream. Throughout the day, we kept viewers engaged with polls to decide what relaxing snack or toy we should give Paco. He relaxed with a blueberry smoothie. He relaxed with a baby sloth plushie. But most importantly, he relaxed America on Tax Day and helped last-minute filers find a moment of zen.
Santigold \ Chasing Shadows
Santigold \ Chasing Shadows
"'Chasing Shadows' is about the conflicted reality of an artist's life. Caught in the web we spin around ourselves, a mixture of hubris and the guise of perfection, we fear being swallowed up by our own ambition. Never in the moment, as quickly as we reach our goals, our gaze shifts to those still looming in the distance. We judge ourselves harshly for not being further on the path and revel in the anxiety of racing the rate of consumption. The lyrics weigh the value of going against the current to maintain artistic integrity, and the feelings of isolation and vacancy bred by a persona that is always 'on' and ready for show."
Toyota \ The Impossible Athlete Series
Toyota \ The Impossible Athlete Series
As the Official Mobility Sponsor and the only brand ever to sponsor the Paralympics and Olympics equally, Toyota was on a mission to elevate the Paralympics in a way that had never been done before. Paralympians are undeniably inspiring athletes, but their accomplishments are often presented with asterisk. The truth is, they train and compete just as hard as Olympians and deserve recognition for their athletic accomplishments beyond just competing with an impairment.
We needed a way to show people what incredible athletes Paralympians truly are. So we hacked Google. We challenged people’s idea of what an elite athlete looks like by intercepting people at the start of their fitness journey. When they went to Google to looking for a new routine, we served them a video of a Paralympian demonstrating their intense training routine, instead of your typical fitness video of some beefcake in a nondescript gym.
The Impossible Athlete Series features five amazing para-athletes, each with a different inspiring message. To showcase the talents of these five amazing athletes, we put them in their element. We created 10 exercise films that capture the essence of what makes Paralympians such incredible athletes. In addition to the exercise films, we also created a hero film for each athlete—an inspiring video that tells each athlete’s incredible story.
One of the most important elements of The Impossible Athlete Series wasn't something we put in, but rather, something we left out. The athletes never outright mention their impairment. They didn't dwell on their disability, so neither did we. And by revealing their disability to the viewers part way through the film, we challenged their idea of what an elite athlete looks like.
Click an athlete's image to see all their videos or watch all the hero film below.
VW \ Sharks rescored
VW \ Sharks rescored
Over 100 million sharks are killed a year by humans. But why don't more people care? Ever since the movie "Jaws", music has made sharks out to be vengeful killers. So if music can vilify sharks, does it also have the power to save them? Introducing Sharks Rescored, a conservation initiative that uses music to change our perception of a species we've been taught to fear. That's why we teamed up an Oscar nominated composer J. Ralph with a marine biologist to write a new score for sharks. Recorded at Abbey Road Studios, the six minute new score premiered on Discovery Channel during Shark Week.
Chelsea Oz and I worked on the social portion of this campaign—handling all the paid media and organic posts. We also helped make the case study which brought home some shiny stuff. We were lucky enough to work with Shiran Teitelbaum and Alice Blastorah on this project.
BOOST MOBILE \ Marked
BOOST MOBILE \ Marked
We started with a question, how do you leave your mark on the world? We created an event that brought six street artists together to create unique content for Boost Mobile's social media. We made some pretty rad art too.
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