Hi! I am Samuel Bourke; an aspiring graphic designer studying my fifth trimester at SAE QANTM.
As a designer, I love experimenting with different styles of artistry, layout, typography and adapting myself to something unique. Pieces that have themes of surrealism really interest me aswell, as they always have a deeper meaning inspired by certain contexts from the artist themselves. Some artists that inspire me include Moonassi & Shaun Tan.
My key skills are:
Illustration Development
Logo Design & Branding
Collateral Development
User Experience & User Interface Design
Adobe Creative Suite
To increase the presence of their brand in Australia. They are known for their oat milk products but lesser known in the ice-cream section. The goal is to develop an advertising campaign to promote this new product to a specific audience.
Ice cream for a post-milk generation.
Campaign Snapshot
Media plan
x2 print advertisements (A3 size)
x2 mockups of the print advertisements (e.g. magazine, bus shelter ad, etc)
x2 creative media mockups of ad (e.g. billboard, outdoor, stickers, wobblers, standees or a promotional advertisement that uses a different layout to your A3 print ad.)
The target audience that I'm aiming my campaign for is towards young adults aged between 17-30 year olds. This group of people would be more of the audience that is finding their independence starting adult life, whether its working or doing uni studies. Targeting to them in particular would be beneficial and would be in line with the brand Oatly speak to themselves as, having a witty and tongue-in-cheek style.
Oatly is a pioneer delivering sustainable products that have minimal environment impact
Oatly's overall brand aesthetic is very simple, with using black, white and usually one or two colours only for the products being shown
Oatly strives to be transparent in whatever they do.
Our goal is to always deliver products that have maximum nutritional value and minimal environmental impact.
We promise to be a good company, which means that our drive to help people upgrade their lives always comes before the reckless pursuit of profit.
We strive to produce the most sustainable, responsible products on the market and are continually looking for better ways to make our products even better. Got some ideas? Send them here.
We hope to make the food industry a more honest place by declaring that we will be totally transparent in everything we do.
This is a Gantt Chart that I created to track my progress of my workflow throughout the duration of project 1.
I will refer to this whenever each week passes to see what to start on and when.
This is the media plan that I've created for my Oatly campaign. I planned to have a variety of advertisements going out promoting this campaign in particular, examples of which are listed in the "types of media" section of the sheet.
I want alot of engagement to primarily come from social media interaction in context to my target audience. The ability to promote this campaign via these platforms would engage this audience to go out and see what Oatly is all about.
These are the concept slides that I presented during Week 3's gallery walk. More detailed pics of the concepts are featured below:
For all my concepts, I wanted to be sure to capture the brand essence of Oatly's wit that comes across some of their normal ads displayed, with very direct language to engage audiences to their products.
I am mainly thinking of going through with my Concept 2 for the project mainly due to everyone's appeal to the idea. Here is the moodboard I created for it. I mostly want to emphasize how Oatly can be a product to "comfort you" on bad days. Atypical to normal ice cream ads, this puts more of a realistic yet comical spin to ice cream as a product, describing its use to a person that may be a stress reliever to some.
The bottom right image is a possible style that I could incorporate within this concept to stray away from the idea being too realistic and to be more comical about it, aswell as it fitting with the illustrative style of Oatly branding.
My second poster idea primarily focuses on the stress of a typical student that are doing extracurricular studies outside from high school in their adult life. Commonly, we can picture ourselves in a situation stressing over turning in documents or studying for exams in a given time span, with us trying to get every little detail of a certain topic into our brain.
That's where Oatly comes in. Since I'm promoting Oatly as a comfort food, using a situation like this would portray Oatly as a product that the audience would need to keep a less stressful lifestyle. Having this ice cream, in essence, would make things okay and would help you with combating everyday life tasks that are needed to be done in adulting life.
Draft of the objects to be sketched out
Base outline of the character and objects
Added in colour, shading and practiced with background. Expression change.
These are the first few versions of completed posters that I have made for my campaign.
As seen, I've adapted lino printing techniques mostly concerning strokes and shapes in certain places of the character, such as the hair to create texture and the leg strokes phasing within the bathtub.
I experimented with gradients for the background to see if they'd fit in for the style of these posters
I adjusted the bottom bits of the poster.
Need to adjust the the text for the second poster to be in line with the illustration (alongside finishing it off)
Final adjustments to poster before Week 6's class
Adjusted gradients to fit better to posters
Added vanilla flower and strawberries to surround the tubs of the first and second posters respectfully
Changed text on the second poster
Little adjustments and tweaks to illustrations and posters overall.
Oatly usually incorporates a bubble font that can be seen on multiple tubs and cartons of Oatly. The phrases "The original" Oatly and "Wow no cow!" can be seen using this type of font.
Since I am incorporating the Oatly brand for this, I used a bubble font that is very similar to the one used for Oatly named Bubblegum.
I shall be using it for taglines and headings similarly to the Oatly brand itself.
Oatly incorporates a typewriter font in cases of there being "normal text" being under a header or title of a certain document.
On packaging itself this typewriter font can be seen on Oatly tubs how it states how much mL (473mL) is in the tub, how it is a "non-dairy frozen dessert" and how it has has "No milk. No soy. No... eh... whatever".
Similar to the brand, I'll be using a typewriter font for the subtext on my posters. Specifically I'll be using the "Another typewriter" font which similarly resembles Oatly's typewriter font
These are some photos of some touchpoints that I've taken around the city. Because it was recommended to us to take photos of locations to use for our mock-ups, I'm attempting to create most of my mock-ups using 100% the photos that I have taken, with using a template to test my skills out. Hopefully this will also give off the idea that this campaign shall be placed within environments that look like they belong in Australia.
This second concept is a mural illustration created to advertise and subtly direct people as to where they can purchase Oatly via the placement of the murals around or near grocery stores.
Additionally, it can be used as a photo opportunity aswell, with possibly benefits or discounts that could be made to people that put takes a photo of themselves in front of the mural using the hashtage "#theoatlyway".
This third concept focuses on the use of Augmented Reality advertising. The display itself is a replica of the bathtub used for the first poster.
However, using an app with a camera feature, such as Instagram or Snapchat, they can find an Oatly filter to use to bring the tub to life and enables the structure to be more interactive and makes use of social media features.
Once scanned and taken a photo of, they can get a once per week 10% discount off of a purchase Oatly Ice Cream tub to be purchased from any store.
Colour Logo
Black Logo
White Logo
Colour Logo
B&W Logo
Min. 12 created posts to your instagram account (account can include other curated content but 12 must be created ones)
x4 short 5 seconds motion graphics posted to your IG account
Social Media Plan/Calendar
All to be submitted to class Google Drives by Week 13.
To create and maintain a cohesive personality and online presence whilst promoting a service/event through a social media campaign.
You will choose a well known fictional character from the list below, and create a live social media profile as them. You must promote a service or event associated with them as your campaign.
You will create a real Instagram account for this project, and role play your chosen character through copy and narrative, via posts and interactions with your audience (peers). You must follow all your peers' characters, and are required to engage with each other’s posts in character throughout the remainder of the trimester.
This is a social media campaigning project, therefore it is vital to consider the identity you are creating on instagram, from the aesthetic to the tone of voice for all copy narrative on the account.
What social media strategies can be utilised in the promotion of a brand?
For the visual identity, put yourself in your character's shoes and design an aesthetic that fits them and the business.
Your character is promoting a service/an event, and so your account is not the personal account of your character, but a business one.
You can consider any image making techniques.
You may use royalty free images.
You cannot use images of the character that you find online, eg. an image of Cinderella from Disney. You can illustrate in the Disney style.
You may use published quotes.
Amazing Spider-buds is an Instagram account that showcases a botanical pop-up sop around the cirt line of Brooklyn, New York.
It is run by Spiderman (Peter Parker) who advocates that "With great flowers, come great responsibility". The business values teaching people the ways of plant care & how to maintaina good eco-friendly lifestyle.
I decided / pulled randomly three papers that read: Spiderman, Hair Salon & Gardening Expo. I decided to go for with gardening expo as it seemed to fit with Spiderman more than a hair salon. Here are some main points from brainstorming
To promote healthy habits of plant care and to raise awareness to the importance of them to environments.
"With great flowers, come great responsibility".
Miles Morales or Peter Parker? (or maybe even another Spiderman overall?).
The Sunflower Expo is a viable option for a name as it references the Post Malone song feature in the movie "Into The Spiderverse".
If we going with Peter Parker, he is more cheeky and playful with his language, whilst being heroic. If we're going with Miles, he's more cool and down-to-earth with his language.
I used multiple plant accounts found on Instagram as inspiration for what I was planning for my Spiderbuds account. I've taken note that multiple accounts aren't neccessarily "set" in their posting strategy, but rather they post whenever they can without thinking much about the design. I did take note, however, how the plant photos aren't always seperate, and that there are plant posts with people, hands and even pets. Moreover, there are multiple text-over-image posts on their feeds aswell, which would be good to include in my created account.
To increase brand awareness of Amazing Spider-buds, the Instagram page is dedicated more so to young adults and young millennials (18-30 years). Specifically it is targeted to plant lovers and people looking to get into gardening.
The goal for Amazing Spider-buds is to teach all people about good plant care & how to live an eco-friendly lifestyle.
I plan to schedule my posts to be four posts/week; posting on Monday, Wednesday, Friday & Saturday. I shall consistently post to my stories and include business posts that engages the attention of the audience viewing the account.
I decided to rework my original logo that I decided on because I wasn't happy with the pure-red aesthetic I was going with. Additionally the logo itself didn't scream Spiderman as much as I hoped it would. Therefore, I decided to rework the logo itself. Instead of putting a spider in a flower icon, I decided to make the spider the flower itself.
Through multiple iterations, I tried to make a logo stood out in shape and silhouette as a spider, whilst using the iconic symbol of Spiderman.
For additional detail, I put a web in the flower to make a further connection to the spider and Spiderman.
I decided to create highlight icons in the same style of my logo's aesthetic. These highlights will focus on the topics listed below and I shall be consistently posting stories consisting of these topics.
Plants
Collabs
Business Info
Tips & Tricks
Special Posts
Product Line Up
Collaboration Post
Instagram Giveaway
Customer Review
Charity Post
These posts mainly focused on the business side of my account, which includes posts of collaboration, plant line ups for the month, giveaways and customer reviews! Each business post is actually evenly numbered considering when it was posted, which was intentional. Having these posts have a darker background exudes professionalism, and with other posts they have a light background colour, and are mostly more creative and oriented to lifestyle.
Bonsai Focus Post
Lillies Focus Post
Post about abilities that plants hold
Succulents Focus Post
These are the lifestyle posts that I made, would include posts that focuses on different plants, to informational posts about plants. Some of these posts have motion within them which were made by me in After Effects. I wanted to animate it keeping in mind the comic book style of the Instagram account that I took inspiration from.
Opening Day Post
Spiderman Birthday Post
How to repot a Spider-bud
These posts mainly focus on how they are not solely business or lifestyle, but moreso posts that an audience can use for their satisfaction and advantage, include deals from special events, and step-by-steps of how to do something. Most of these posts are illustrated or have been incorporated using multiple mediums ranging from all over the whole Adobe Creative Suite.
I also attempted to engage my audience using Instagram stories and the features that come along with it overall. I reposted, gave tips, did giveaways, asked audience opinions and much more! These stories can be viewed in the highlights bar of my Instagram account!
If you need a design project done, I am able to offer my services. Please contact me via these ways, otherwise I can get back to you via messages on other contacts that I can provide!
@smolboi.design
Samuel-Bourke-627669216
https://smolboidesign.wixsite.com/home
smolboi.design@gmail.com