Adidas x Werthers: The originals

Role -
Motion Design
Campaign Design

Year -
2023

Firestarters award
winner

1st place Winner for Dragon Rougue's Firestarters Competition. A collaboration between the Werther’s Originals and AdidasOriginals, creating the collaboration “The Originals” with the aim to help make older people feel relavent again.

Brief

Create a collaboration between two unlikely brands, services, products or apps to create something new that will excite new audiences.Think about how this collaboration can help to solve a current issue.

Insight

It has been found that up to 93% of older adults regularly experience atleast one of ten forms of ageism. This includes the assumption that theydon’t do anything important or valuable.

Solution

A collaboration between the stereotypically old audiencebrand Werther’s Originals and the younger demographic brand AdidasOriginals, creating the collaboration “The Originals”. The aim of this collaboration is to make the older generation feel more relevant and valued in society.

Gold Foil Shoes

By 3d scanning the shoes on Polycam and using Blender, I created the packaging concept for these shoes. By wrapping the shoes in gold foil opening a new box of these shoes gives the same feeling as when you open a werthers sweet itself and unwrapping the foil from it. Use the interactive scene below to pan around the shoes.

The Process

Face Replacement

Using the content aware tool, we removed the previous face and replaced it with an older one at a similar angle, we also used a similar techniqueto age up the hands.  We then edited the photos to make them look similar to the colour grading in the original Werther’s advert. To do this, we used Lightroom and changed the colour grading to make the images look golden. We then added grain and calibration to make the images look like Kodak gold film stock. This also ensures the images had a vintage/ retro feel that would attract young and old audiences.

Digital Advertising

We created social media posts and a website as adidas to promote the new collection and made sure to create for posts, stories and reels. We then made a video mockup for these on after effects to include in our video. As well as this, we made a replica of Adidas' website using Figma to show what this collaboration would be like visualised on the website.

Slippers and advertsising

We also created a set of werthers caramel coloured slippers aimed more directly at an older audience. As well as this we created a range of advertisements on things from bus stops to newspapers to try to appeal more to the audience and where would be best to advertise this campaign.

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