IDEAS BUILT TO SHOW UP IN THE REAL WORLD

Experiential and out-of-home creative shaped for scale, context, movement, and public attention.

EXPERIENTIAL & OUT-OF-HOME

Make the placement part of the idea.

INSIDE THE EXPERIENCE

The idea has to work at the scale of the street.

We design campaign worlds that read instantly, reward a closer look, and extend naturally into physical space.

Reduce the campaign to a bold visual people understand in motion.
01Reduce the campaign to a bold visual people understand in motion.
Adapt the system for scale, placement, and the rhythm of the street.
02Adapt the system for scale, placement, and the rhythm of the street.
Carry the campaign world into physical placements people want to enter.
03Carry the campaign world into physical placements people want to enter.

OUR OOH PROCESS

One campaign idea, designed for physical impact.

01

Distill

We find the visual and verbal idea that reads in a glance.

02

Scale

Composition, typography, and detail are tested for real-world viewing distances.

03

Extend

The system adapts across placements without losing recognition.

04

Produce

Final artwork and experiential assets are finished for each environment.

SELECTED OOH & EXPERIENTIAL

Campaigns made to own physical space.

Aescape — Honor the Human Form

Aescape

Honor the Human Form
OOH · Brand campaign
Gaian — OOH Print Campaign

Gaian

OOH Print Campaign
OOH · Print campaign

Talkhouse Encore

Born in a Bar
Brand world · OOH · Experiential

What we can build together

The scope is shaped around the assignment, not a fixed package.

Campaign concepts

Simple, ownable ideas that can hold attention at public scale and extend across channels.

Environmental thinking

Creative shaped around viewing distance, dwell time, movement, location, format, and context.

Large-format content

Film, animation, photography, and graphic systems composed for outdoor and digital canvases.

Experiential storytelling

Audience journeys, content moments, capture opportunities, and useful connections to the wider campaign.

Production and adaptation

Asset planning, specifications, versioning, finishing, and coordination across placements and partners.

Campaign extensions

Social, film, photography, behind-the-scenes, and launch content that carries the physical moment further.

The environment is a creative input

A successful placement is not simply a smaller campaign image enlarged. The surrounding architecture, traffic pattern, light, viewing angle, screen behavior, and audience mindset all affect what can be understood. We use those constraints to simplify the message and find ideas that belong in the space.

From Times Square takeovers to focused activations

Mikhail’s existing positioning spans product photography through Times Square takeovers. The common thread is a campaign system capable of changing scale while keeping its point of view. A large public moment should feel connected to the film, photography, social, and launch materials around it.

Designing for a glance and a second look

The first layer needs immediate recognition: a strong image, motion behavior, line, demonstration, or visual surprise. The second layer can reward attention with detail, interaction, sequence, or a connection to the location. We decide which job each placement can realistically perform.

Make the moment travel

Experiential work reaches the people who are present and the larger audience who encounters it through coverage. We plan camera positions, capture moments, social formats, behind-the-scenes access, and supporting assets early so documentation feels like part of the creative rather than an afterthought.

A practical path from concept to delivery

Public-facing work involves partners, technical specifications, approvals, and fixed dates. We develop ideas with those realities in view, then coordinate the creative assets and versioning required to deliver a consistent campaign across formats.

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