• Key Art Design

  • Concept

  • Illustration

  • Art Direction

  • Campaign Design

  • Quality Assurance

Role

  • Creative Director: Taylor Buck

  • Sr Art Director: Mike “Hendo” Henderson

  • Producer: Chris Latimer

  • Photographer: Benjamin Khuns

  • Stylist: Lauren Brady

  • Copywriter: Max Polin

  • Visual Merchandising: Eric Pool

Crew

Gifts For The Cyclist

What I feel can be the most contrived moment for a cycling brand can also be the most fun. The conundrum is to create a guide for someone that’s shopping for their partner or relations that ride bikes. Pricing buckets, genders, kids, mountain bikers, “roadies” on and on. It can get confusion for someone that doesn’t ride. They typically would buy a gift card.

The idea to create something that related to cycling culture, welcoming to anyone shopping for a loved one, non-cyclist shopping for cyclist. The tone and visuals needed to speak to all of these people, a little seasonality all while shopping an assortment of products that cyclists want.

What I put into our concept is to shoot at more dynamic angles, adding warmth to our props and we added in some custom wrapping paper, stenciled logos on cortados as a bonus.

Styling genius of Lauren Brady

This boiled down to making an easy shopping experience for cyclists & non-cyclists alike. What should I get for the person who buys everything? Rather than this being a curated list of what our merchandisers were told to promote, we wanted to highlight some of our assortment that is the thing someone might be dreaming of getting, but didn’t buy themselves (Smart Trainer or upgrade lights with radar) or the thing they need, but never remember to get (a fancy bell). Either way, we set these up by category and price.

The look was a clean, lightly propped space with room for the products to breathe. Rather than our typical top-down knolling, we shot this in a more dynamic Dutch angle way, but not with the intent to create unease, but to guide the eye.

Lauren’s styling was a masterclass on knolled product and eye flow.

The wrapping paper was an 8:30am call on a very snowy commute up to the Park City office & studio. Lauren asked if I had any ideas for wrapping paper. I said, give me an hour or two. I pulled up some illustrations from older works and created a pattern. She later had these printed and worked them into the still life shots. I later took some paper tear PNGs and made some frames for the images to tie back to the photography.

Wire Frame

This was just before our switch to Figma and our new site platform on AEM. We decided to do a visual navigation as well as a tab navigation and test what users would click on more. Unfortunately, I no longer have the completed data, but I do remember that is was fairly split. Ultimately we later used the tab navigation and listed the products out.

Check this out live here. You wont see more than the featured product hero on each page as the product listings live on site have been dismantled.

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