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Event Dressing for Snap Focus

Snapchat

Snapchat’s business comms needed to do two things at once: explain its value to marketers, and retain the personality people knew from the app. Be taken seriously, while still being fun. Through agency work and later freelance projects, I developed creative for teams across Australia, the UK, Europe and the Middle East. The work ranged from learning platforms and webinars to product videos, training programmes and everyday marketing materials. Each audience across the globe brought different cultural nuance, so the design had to adapt across markets while staying recognisably Snapchat. I combined design, illustration and art direction to make detailed information feel approachable and engaging. This selection shows how a playful brand can communicate a serious business proposition without losing its sense of fun.

My Role

Lead Designer, Art Director, Illustrator

Deliverables

Creative Identity, Monthly eDMs, Socials, Decks, Cheat Sheets

Outcomes & Success

Good work and a good relationship resulted in repeat commissions across agency and freelance work. 'Snap to It' had such success, it expanded into Europe and Australia.

  • Lead Designer, Art Director, Illustrator
  • Creative Identity, Monthly eDMs, Socials, Decks, Cheat Sheets
  • Good work and a good relationship resulted in repeat commissions across agency and freelance work. 'Snap to It' had such success, it expanded into Europe and Australia.

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Snap Focus

I was asked to create a new visual identity for Snap Focus, Snapchat’s learning platform for marketers. My aim was to put innovation, one of Snapchat’s key strengths, at the centre of the identity. Four bold shapes and colours expressed different approaches to learning, capturing the satisfaction and excitement of a new idea. Together, they formed a flexible visual system that could accommodate varied educational content while retaining Snapchat’s playful character.

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Snap to it

Snap to It was a program of monthly marketing webinars, designed to engage and educate busy marketing professionals. Needing to cut through a lot of online marketing noise – we focused on offering immediate, actionable insights. The integrated image/typographic format worked to provide instant brand recognition, and we used sketch doodles to create a planning and learning aesthetic. The illustrated "Helping hands" brought character to otherwise dry topics, guided attention to key information and signposted different topics and stages of learning.

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Dynamic Ads by Snapchat

This animation was designed to raise awareness, educate audiences and accelerate adoption of Snap’s Dynamic Ads. Built around “Low touch, high impact,” the creative translates complex product information into something simple and approachable, using shapes, gravity, beats and pulses to bring its dynamic nature to life. My contribution included Art Direction, Design, Illustration and Storyboards. Animation by Don Lim.

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Snap Champions

Snap Champions is Snapchat’s annual media agency training program. In 2021, COVID forced it entirely online, calling for a format that could sustain engagement and encourage competition remotely. We borrowed from reality TV, combining episodes, a host, challenges and community content with curated gifting. The creative brought that format to life across the program, making training feel like an event participants could follow, take part in and return to.

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Credits

Snap to it, Dynamic Ads, and Snap Champs created at Hotwire.
Snap Focus created independently, as freelancer.
Creative Directors: Jen Dobbie, Irfan Ghani
Copywriting: Jen Dobbie, Anna Karena, Abi Gordon
Design: Abi Gordon
Illustration: Abi Gordon

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