ABIA: SXSW
ROLES
Art Director + Designer
DESIGN SUPPORT
Kyle Scallon
MARKETING SUPPORT
Katherine Williams
Dell's media buy in Austin Bergstrom International Airport required a campaign to elevate claims for the Dell brand and advertise Dell's accomplished rankings. Our team's concept was to incorporate parallel Austin-centric claims to tie in the context of the airport by both welcoming visitors and reinforcing natives' sense of home. The installation of the campaign also coincided with the week previous to SXSW, Austin's annual music festival. Visitors from around the world attending the festival, including business decision makers, would be exposed to the installation.
The simple illustrative approach provides a subtle visual reinforcement to the message and entices attention while remaining secondary to the messaging. The pattern fill in each illustration also serves to create some texture and additional depth to the large-scale media. A range of bold Dell colors also serves to draw attention in the vast and well-lit terminal. More than twenty Dell placements comprise the majority of the advertising space, creating a real Dell presence in the Austin airport.





ABIA: Future Ready
ROLES
Art Director + Designer
DESIGN SUPPORT
Angele Davidson
MARKETING SUPPORT
Katherine Williams
As an extension of Dell's enterprise-focused "Future-Ready" campaign,
our team's objective was to bring this concept to life in concrete,
yet aspirational, ways for out-of-home placements at the Austin Bergstrom International Airport. Aimed at business travelers coming to Dell's hometown of Austin for SXSW and the Dell Match Play, the Airport placements were meant to convey Dell's groundbreaking technology capabilities by using real-life customer stories — with the added challenge of not mentioning the customers by name.
The photographic approach paired sweeping, colorful imagery with anthemic, yet granular, copy. The call to action of 'see the full picture' meshed perfectly with the blurred / clear contrast in the imagery utilizing the campaign-specific "Future Ready" angle. It serves
to inform Dell customers that there's a lot more to Dell than just
PCs, and puts Dell at the vanguard of emerging technologies and innovative advertising.


