Blowing Up.
I led the creative direction for Maxon’s Blowing Up campaign, building a unified launch strategy and visual world that drove awareness, event engagement, and exceeded expectations of new product adoption.
Scope
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Challenge
Creating one campaign for an expanding creative ecosystem
The challenge was to develop a single campaign that could unify Maxon’s growing ecosystem of tools while supporting a major seasonal release across digital marketing and live events. With products spanning motion design, sculpting, rendering, VFX, and finishing, the launch needed to clearly communicate how each solution connected within one creative workflow instead of feeling like separate announcements. At the same time, the campaign had to perform across a wide range of touchpoints, from teaser and launch videos to NAB and OFFF booth graphics, social content, merchandise, interviews, and landing pages, while creating enough excitement to drive awareness for new products like Autograph.
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Solution
Building a visual world around creative momentum
The creative direction centered on the idea of creativity “blowing up,” using inflated characters and oversized balloon-inspired objects as a metaphor for creative pressure, momentum, and breakthrough ideas. In collaboration with Rosie Roche, we developed a playful visual system that brought personality and scale to the campaign while giving each product area its own recognizable identity. This world extended across launch strategy, teaser and launch videos, rebrand assets, announcement emails, social posts, event guest interviews, stickers, t-shirts, and immersive booth graphics for NAB and OFFF. The balloon metaphor created a memorable visual language that connected the full ecosystem and positioned Maxon’s tools as part of one larger creative solution.
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Conclusion
Turning product marketing into measurable growth
The campaign successfully transformed the Spring Ecosystem Release into a standout brand and product moment for Maxon. By creating a unified campaign that worked equally well across launch marketing and event experiences, the release generated strong engagement and within the first week this helped drive over 10,000 installs of Autograph, Maxon’s new motion graphics and VFX software. We garnered just as much interest in Cinema 4D for iPad with thousands of requests to join the beta. “Blowing Up” became a recognizable campaign that strengthened brand awareness, increased product adoption, and reinforced Maxon’s position as a complete creative ecosystem for digital artists.
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