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Design Category
Promotional design and advertising, 2001
Design firm
Kirshenbaum Bond + Partners (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Collection
(2002) AIGA 365: 23

Description

The Target brand promise is “Expect More. Pay Less.” We wanted to create a campaign that emphasized the “pay less” side of this promise in an upscale, sophisticated way. The solution was to team with vendor partners to create scenarios featuring huge quantities of product being used in an unusual, madcap way. In this spot, we needed to show a lot of product and prominently feature the Charmin logo. In addition, we developed a simple set that worked well with Charmin colors and packaging. The result was a spot that was quirky, entertaining and stimulated an increase in sales of the featured product.

Credits
Executive creative director: Rob Feakins
Creative directors: Ucef Hanjani, Eric Erickson
Art directors: Aaron Alden, John Mayhew
Director: Doug Nichol
Director of photography: Joe Zizzo
Editors: Andre Betz, Bug
Sound designers: Asche & Spencer, Sound Lounge, tomandandy
Copyeditor: David Black
Agency producer: Betsy Schoenfeld
Production company: Partizan
Post effects: Nice Shoes
Effects: Spontaneous Combustion
Target art buyer: Denise Weber
Client: Target Corporation
Juror Notes

“They’ve redefined the use of graphics on television.”