In June 2024, the Advertising Standards Authority banned the GRAMMY-nominated Charli xcx's tour poster, suggesting the baggie it showed was anything but an innocent sandwich bag. Her response? Adding a sandwich, obviously, to prove otherwise and inviting fans, in a TikTok video (9.6 million views) to bring their own sandwiches to her sell-out arena shows.
Sandwiches being a hero Hellmann's food, we saw an opportunity and seized it. Bringing the poster to life and filling them with free 'Club Classic' sandwiches to keep queuing fans fed at the tour's Birmingham stop.
The results speak for themselves with Reddit posts, Tweets, TikTok and Instagram videos declaring the whole thing a hit. What’s more, Charli xcx even shared the 'Club Classic'-filled sandwich bag on her social channels, and the bags have since popped up on Ebay and Vinted.
Another example of bringing Hellmann’s into cultural conversations by giving back to the fans, rather than co-opting their fandom or simply turning a branded asset brat-green.
Role: Global Creative Directors
In early 2023, TikTok introduced a brand new revolutionary filter which caused a huge stir in the media. The Bold Glamour filter presented an "ideal" of beauty, and it looks very real. Almost too real.
Dove has always fought against damaging and unrealistic expectations of beauty, so we encouraged everyone to #TurnYourBack on the Bold Glamour filter as part of Dove’s #NoDigitalDistortion mission.
The influencer-led campaign was devised and rolled out in less than a week. Kicked off with creators sharing their feelings on the filter, and the damage it can do to people and their perception of what constitutes beauty.
It went on to win the Media Grand Prix at Cannes Lions 2023.
Role: Global Creative Directors
80% of girls are now using retouching apps by the age of 13, according to research. This formed the basis of our new global campaign for Dove - a sequel to the groundbreaking 'Evolution' film. But this time instead of the media distorting their images, now the girls are doing it to themselves with the face apps and retouching tools.
The entire campaign was devised, produced and shot remotely during the 2nd Lockdown in the UK in 2020.
Film directed by Benito Montorio
Photography by Sophie Harris-Taylor
British Vogue called it one of “the Most Viral Moments of SS25”.
We call it the ‘Margaret bag’.
Debuting at London Fashion Week Sept 2024 to high acclaim, our must-have Hellmann's x Chopova Lowena collaboration handbag comes complete with a unique holder for a jar of Hellmann's mayo, a Victorian silver spoon and an antique-style blue lid charm.
The bag serves as a way to bring a heritage brand into culture by collaborating with the UK’s fashion brand of the moment. Based on actual consumer insights that millennials are carrying condiments with them, it felt like the perfect partnership.
The limited edition bag is currently available to buy at Dover Street Market London.
One of those ‘You’ve got an hour, do something.’ briefs. We created a series of posters to cover a work in progress hoarding over the McDonald’s site at Piccadilly Circus while it updated to digital.
It picked up a fair few awards including a ‘Wood Pencil’ at D&AD.
We created a fully integrated campaign for the NSPCC called ‘Share Aware’. Two very shareable films were followed by a series of online tools, booklets, and family agreements which helped parents to start conversations with their children about what they share online, and how they share it.
The campaign was immediately adopted by every police force in the country, and used as a teaching tool in hundreds of school assemblies.
Three short cinema spots which ran before the main feature and ahead of the BBFC rating certificate. Each spot was matched to a specific film release ('Captain Fantastic', 'Little Men' and 'The Light Between Oceans’) which paid off our message.
45% of girls drop out of sports by age 14.
This stat prompted two of the biggest brands in the world to join forces to do something about it.
Dove and Nike teamed up to create ‘Body Confident Sport’, a program created for sports coaches to better understand girls and change the way they coach them. We announced the partnership in 2023 with the help of Venus Williams, before launching it to the world with Dove’s first Super Bowl spot in 18 years.
The ‘Hard Knocks’ film was voted the #6 best Super Bowl ad of 2024. A targeted social campaign followed using real girls who opened up about their actual body hang ups around sports.
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Role: Global Creative Directors
We created this poster campaign while freelancing at WCRS. The idea being to force the public to engage with the kinds of decisions young people on the streets have to make just to get a bed for the night.
At the end of 2021 Walkers had quite a big issue: they could no longer manufacture crisps because of an IT upgrading error.
So once they were finally back on the shelves, they naturally wanted to show them off to the nation.
Directed by DreamJob
One of the most popular features on TikTok is the ability to use text to speech software to narrate anything you can type. While the tech is incredibly sophisticated, it’s also profoundly dangerous. Allowing toxic advice and ideas to be spread rapidly through a disarmingly positive and encouraging voice.
A voice that is contributing to 1 in 2 kids suffering from poor mental health.
For this Dove radio campaign we harnessed the power of an online AI platform to warn parents of the dangerous social media content this insidious voice is pushing onto their kids.
Produced within this AI text to speech software, each radio spot is delivered by the same synthetic voice highlighting a different way in which the voice is used to influence our kids.
McDonald’s was one of our favourite accounts to work on while at Leo Burnett. Here are some of the highlights.
McDonald's ‘Festive’.
Our McDonald’s Festive campaign paid homage to the unsung hero of Christmas, the postman.
McDonald's 'Iced up'
We launched McDonald’s Iced Fruit Smoothies with TV, print and outdoor. The campaign returned £6 for every £1 spent.
Ronald McDonald House Charities
We shot this for a total production budget of £10K. In just one evening it raised well over £200k to build a new Ronald McDonald House for families with extremely sick children right next to Evelina London Hospital. They even auctioned our little night light for over £5k to help.
McDonald’s ‘Great Tastes of America’.
What started out as a campaign of five separate 30” ads soon turned into one. Typical. Never mind, we powered on anyway and managed to shoot in the lush sunshine of Miami, FL.
Our latest work for Barclays demonstrating the useful features of their banking app. Created at BBH.
