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What's Your Venmo?

We reframed "What's your Venmo?" into something bigger—everything money can be in a day. Told as a single unbroken take following Venmo around one city block, a visual thread that stretched across film and social to print and iconic Times Square takeovers. Music drove the films, from the emotional pull of the anthem's custom Masego track to the comic timing of Sick Day.

A few of many pieces.

72andSunny, 2024.
Clio Music Silver and Bronze, Shorty Awards Gold and Silver. 
Directed by Yoni Lappin / DP Edu Grau / Stills by Tom Sloan / ECD

Lauren Smith / CD Tim Howman, Maddie McDowell, Michael Flannery / AD Steph Sczublewski, Erica Barringer, Tessa Memmott / CW Jamie Wynn, Sydnie Johnson, Emily Rhodes / Design Mike Farrell, Jean Pongsai.

Adobe — Home Team

How do you make Document Cloud entertaining? Put it inside an underdog football club—soccer kind—whose surprise winning streak buries its front office in merch orders, contracts and chaos—until Document Cloud lets a tiny team keep pace with a big problem. 

I designed the club from the ground up—identity, crest and kit—carried through the film and every piece of merch. Absolute scenes.

72andSunny, 2020.
Directed by Paul Middleditch
CD Tim Bateman, Michael Flannery / ACD AD Tim Howman 

Pluto TV — Drop In

Where do you even go when you drop into Pluto TV? Somewhere hundreds of channels are free — where cats, the Baywatch crew and Jean-Luc Picard roam wild and free, because they are. Drop in. It's free.

Launched March 2020—right as the whole world dropped in.

72andSunny, 2020.
Directed by Adam Stevens / GCD Adam Szajgin / ACD AD Tim Howman / ACD CW Jason Donaldson, Christine Call

Samsung x Swarovski

Samsung didn't just want to be an electronics brand — it wanted to be a fashion one. So when Swarovski designed accessories for the Note 4 and Gear S, they had to do what any good accessory does: go with everything. Instead of a commercial, we made a music video — one woman, one night, five outfit changes, set to Sylvan Esso's "Hey Mami." The outfits change; the Samsung never does.

Leo Burnett LA, 2015.
ADC Gold 
Directed and DP by Leila and Damien de Blinkk 
CD Adam Kennedy, Brandon Rochon / ACD AD Tim Howman 

adidas — Fast Don't Lie

"Fast Don't Lie" was a concept from 180LA where they created Slim Chin, a character played by Ken Jeong. We built the part that turned a campaign into a competition: a YouTube world and game that put millions in the shoes of the NBA's fastest, MVP Derrick Rose.

Close to three million played—fast, as it turns out, don't lie.

180amsterdam, 2012
Effies Gold, One Show Merit 2x
180 amsterdam—ECD Matt Akatz / AD Tim Howman / CW Bex Radford
Film and Slim Chin concept by 180LA—ECD Gavin Milner / Sr. AD Erwin Fedrzero / Sr CW. Eric Helin 

WWF New Zealand — Project Faketree

Teenagers don't care about climate change, but they do care about winning. So we took climate change into Faketown, a virtual world where every player got a carbon footprint to drive to zero. Planting virtual trees brought it down — but there was a cheat: donate a real tree to WWF NZ and your virtual one got an oxygen boost that put you miles ahead. Their competitiveness planted 2,000 real trees in 14 days.

Not bad for 2008.

Saatchi & Saatchi New Zealand, 2008.
ECD Mike O'Sullivan / AD Tim Howman / CW Bex Radford