Coke Zero/Buffalo Wild Wings

We did a SCVNGR promotion during the entire football season. There was a grand prize winner every week. The above is our first week winner. We couldn't have scripted that a better more excited guy won.
They won quite an awesome prize too:
4 tickets to a NCAA game
$1000 in BWW gift cards
$1000 cash
Shuttle to and from the game
4 team jerseys and hats
4 Coke Zero seat cushions
An awesome tailgating grill and BWW sauces
Cooler full of Coke Zero
Coke Zero bags game set

Coke Zero Football

We were not actually invited to pitch this business. We don't take no for an answer very well. So we developed concepts anyway. We created a series of blogs to tell our story of football from high school to college to pro. We delivered this message to the client in a pdf of the poster above, that was linked to the main blog. It did not win us the business but it made a great impression, which is what we truly wanted to accomplish.

Messing Around

I was bored at work one day and did this. It really is nothing more than that.

Carlsberg Poster

It was just a comp, but it was a fun one to do.

Stoli Poster

Just an example of getting pulled in to a project and asked to do a poster, then it actually gets produced.

New Project

This is a freelance project I recently had done. Well more like the tip of the iceberg of a project. I did 10 versions car wraps for 6 schools. This was the first on completed. The general idea was to make these feel like a rally car, to appeal to high school seniors and yet not put off any adults who might have interest in continuing education. Using the rally car design it gave the ability to showcase courses of study as sponsor logos would appear on an actual rally car.

Here's To Beer- The American Brew

This project combined two of my favorite things, Movies and beer. The here's to Beer group was having a documentary made by Ken Burns production company on the history of American beer. We were able to sell in this simple iconic poster I had designed. I art directed the photo shoot and retouching of the glass. This poster lead to getting to design the dvd case, display, the trade show booth at the G.A.B.F and then a series of full page ads that ran in USA today.
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B&E Poster

A band I know had a big show in Chicago. They needed a poster. I designed them a poster. It's not everyday I get to use skulls and guns.
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Knology

This is a cable, internet and phone provider that I have done freelance full campaign work for through a small St. Louis agency. It has covered pretty much everything a person can do. From concepting what the campaign is, to executing TV, radio, direct mail, print, outdoor and many other odds and ends. The campaign was done in 3 phases. They have been a very fun client to do work for. This is just a small sample of the amount of work that has been done. And there will be much more coming up since we just presented the campaign ideas for 2010. It will prove to be an even more fun year.
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Spencer E Strategies

This was an identity job I was doing for a friend who has a e-strategy business in Switzerland. It was one of those fun times where using letterforms to make something else made great sense and looked cool.
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Bud Light- Total Entertainment Challenge

TEC was an on-premise game that used technology and music to connect with consumers. This was the second year of the successful program. CMT's would approach patrons in a bar or club and with a video ipod play music and video triva games, where people could win cool merchandise. The sign-making needed to be hip and techy feeling to help show what the program was all about.
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Federal Ammunition

We were charged with coming up with a new advertising campaign for Federal Ammunition. We wanted something that would stand out from everything else in hunting and fishing magazines. Most ads in those magazines use similar photography and a similar color palette. Our idea was called "What's Inside" it was all about the fact that hunters come in every shape, size and occupation. We wanted to tell their story through their expression and the shadow they cast. This look also had to translate to TV.
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SHFT2 Alleycat Race

I designed all the materials:
Teaser Flyer, Poster, Spoke Cards, Buttons, T-Shirts

And a friend and I planned the event. If we can get 34 rowdy bike riders in an organized event we can plan and execute anything.
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Bud Light- Thumb Wrestling

Anheuser Busch was looking for on-premise ideas to replace their Paper, Rock, Scissors game. Working as the creative director on this project, we needed a simple universal game that everyone could quickly understand. What better than Thumb Wrestling. We went with the cheesy factor that wrestling has. We developed an entire POS kit and did a test market at bars in Columbia, Missouri. As you can see in the video people had a great time playing.
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Momentum- Bowling

Bowling is a blue collar sport. So what better for bowling gear than Dickies work shirts and foam front, mesh back hats.
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GM Card

This was an in-concert video that I did for GM card for their sponsorship of a Kenny Chesney tour. This would run before the show and in-between the acts. It was to drive traffic to the GM card booth, where if someone signed up for a card, they got a free cd that had exclusive tracks and a chance to win great seats.

Coke- Football Town, Super Bowl

Coke didn't have NFL rights but still always needed football POS. Since it's the biggest home party time of the year. I was the art director for all the POS and the photo shoot. The last piece shown here was the spectacular. It had motion as well. The people would high-five each other and the guy would signal touchdown.
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Sprite- Clear

I was in charge of Sprite planning. This particular year our client asked for an idea that in her words, would get her fired. She wanted true out there thinking on top of the standard ideas. I focused on what Sprite has that other drinks don't. It's clear. And every non-brown soda is always in a green bottle. So lets put all that the product is out there. It was a hit. It had it's own code name in the Coke corporate headquarters in Atlanta, "project tarmac". But then they got cold feet and used the idea for Sprite remix rather than for the actual Sprite brand. But it was a fun and exciting ride while it lasted.
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Drive- Direct Mail

The agency I was working at wanted to do a direct mail, self promotion piece that would target outdoors companies. We wanted a fun message but a piece that might actually get hung up on a potential clients wall. So we created this simple fun poster.
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Anheuser Busch- Reign Water

This was a fun product development project. AB was working on creating a water. They discovered that P. Diddy was interested in promoting a water. We did a lot of research on naming, bottle shapes, logo designs and moods. As with many other ventures between two huge brands, this one ended up going nowhere. But it's still cool fun stuff.
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Hardee's- Eat Thick Ride Wide

I loved doing work for Hardee's. They don't try to mince words or be safe. This was a simple promotion. Eat a thickburger and you could win a Harley. The one problem we had to overcome, was having no media budget to tell people about the promotion. So we developed a website that people would go enter their game piece code at, but the main feature at the site was a burger jumper game. It was a fun simple, addictive game, that players could pass onto their friends. It was a success, we had over 350,000 unique visitors come and play the game. Not bad for nothing more than word of mouth.
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Concord Mills

My last two years working at Kiku Obata & Co. was spent working as a graphic designer on this project. It was a 1.5 million square ft. mall in Concord North Carolina. We did everything from the pattern of the wood floor, to the wall colors, to the concrete pattern of the building, to every bit of signage. My personal favorite part was when I had suggested that in the entertainment court we do two huge graffiti murals. For the comps faking this in photoshop was ok, but I knew that would never cut it in real life. I found Estria (an awesome graffiti muralist in San Francisco) who made my idea a reality.
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Coke- Color Your Summer

Coke was launching some new colors for their trademarked cup. I took a pretty simple bit of new news and showed it off in a cool simple way. All the focus of the POS was on color and the cup.
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Bud Light- Mencia

I was the creative director on this project, but I was also an art director who did some looks for the project. Once we had a chosen look of mine, I had a jr. ad blow out the rest of the POS pieces.
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