STRATEGY + ART DIRECTION

A&E's The Returned takes place in a small mountain town whose deceased loved ones reappear as if nothing ever happened.

The core of this campaign was to inspire questions, not answer them. Drawing our audience in by building intrigue around the show, only giving them pieces of what to expect.

Using unconventional tactics (interactive films, cinemagraph series, and cryptic OOH displays), we cut through the noise of traditional advertising to get the viewer to pay attention, look closer, and fall into the mysterious-supernatural-thriller-drama that is The Returned.

CREDITS

Creative Director: Rama Allen

Art Director & Strategist: Audrey Davis

Designers: Chris Palazzo, Gera Frascaroli, Caleb Halter, Damien Bastelica

Storyboard Artist: Michael DeWeese

Created by the fantastic team at Mill+ NY

DIRECTION

Miles learned his dad, Richard, would lose his hair due to an intensified chemo treatment. So Miles wanted to lose his hair too. 
I persuaded him to let me film it and here is the result. 

Enjoy.

CREDITS

Director: Audrey Davis
Talent and Partner: Miles Keenlyside
Music: Evenings - "Yore"

Designer

For “The First Network Designed for Black Women”, we were tasked to create a brand as layered and expressive as its demographic. The solution was to celebrate complexity; build a comprehensive palette of patterns, textures, color, and photography to mix and remix creating one powerful and unified voice. 

CREDITS

Creative Director: Ryan Moore

Associate Creative Director: Lauren Hartstone

Designers: Audrey Davis, Danny Ruiz, Caleb Halter, Adam Wentworth

Created by the wondrous team at Gretel.

ART DIRECTION

* Nominated for the Emmy's Main Title Design *

BLOOD + SEX + WATERY GRAVE + HAUNTING FEVER RAY TRACK = OPENING TITLES FOR HISTORY CHANNEL'S VIKINGS.

Inspired by Viking folklore, we follow a dying man's descent into the inviting embrace of death herself.

CREDITS

All live action and post production produced at The MIll.
Director: Rama Allen
Art Director: Audrey Davis
Head of Design Production: Danielle Amaral 
Head of Content: Ian Bearce 
Line Producer: Rich Schwab
Director of Photography: Khalid Mohtaseb
Second Unit DP: Adam Carboni
VFX Supervisor: Westley Sarokin 
Lead Flame: Westley Sarokin & Danny Morris 
Flame Artist: Suzanne Dyer 
Nuke: Robert Bruce
CG Leads: Sandor Toledo & Vince Baertsoen 
Rubem Vanderbroek 
Olivier Varteressian
Editor: Ryan McKenna 
Assistant Editor: Jessica Ledoux
Color: Damien Van Der Cruyssen
Music: Fever Ray - "If I Had a Heart"

DESIGNER

Lincoln Motor Company through the ages. An exploration decade by decade of Lincoln's signature styles and innovations up until present day.
This spot premiered at the 2014 Grammys!
 

CREDITS

Art/Creative Director: Kenji Yamashita

Designer: Audrey Davis
Created by the wonderful team at LOGAN NY.

STRATEGY + ART DIRECTION

Estée Lauder's Le Rouge is not for the timid. This fragrance is for women who are as confident in the boardroom as they are the bedroom. She gets shit done in Louboutins. 

Our objective was to impress these women of sophistication. From exclusive film festivals to immersive sensory installations to mysterious digital personas, our launch campaign had to speak to their established sense of taste while also presenting new and alluring ideas.

This is only a small slice of campaign book. If you'd like to see more, feel free to email me for a pass-coded site. 

CREDITS

Creative Director: Oliver Davies

Executive Producer: Sallyann Houghton

Art Director & Strategists: Audrey Davis + Anthony Dodero

Created by the beautiful team at Mill+ NY

Photography

On Saturday December 13th 2014, protesters streamed through the NYC streets by the tens of thousands marching in solidarity with the families of those killed by law enforcement officers. Corresponding protests occurred in Washington, New York, Boston, Chicago and Oakland.

ILLUSTRATION

When you just want noodles.

TITLE DESIGN CONCEPT

The challenge - What if Key & Peele were a groundbreaking dramatic series? What would its main title be? We need to believe this show is real. 

We follow our disoriented heroes, Key and Peele, through a creative void represented here as a vast illustrative desert. They drive fast and erratically, the landscape blooms in their wake revealing mountains and plains. Their expressions blend over cinematic exteriors reinforcing the scale of their epic search.

The car comes to an abrupt halt; what they’ve been looking for has been there all along. We arrive on a wide shot of their vehicle, a massive Key & Peele logo sits on the far horizon. 

CREDITS

Director: Jeremy Cox

Design: Audrey Davis

Studio: Imaginary Forces

ILLUSTRATION

ART DIRECTION

Together with Imaginary Forces and Creative Director Mark Gardner, we created a total brand package for Shaw Media's latest lifestyle channel - DTOUR.
Bright, playful, and clean; the objective was to capture the variety of unusual and adventurous content that DTOUR has to offer. 

CREDITS

Creative Director: Mark Gardner
Art Director: Audrey Davis
Animation: Max Strizich
Producer: Aleen Kim
Created by the wonderful team at IMAGINARY FORCES

DESIGN

An interactive touch display on smart glass featuring the work done at The Mill . The challenge was not only how to showcase The Mill's massive body of work as a complete and coherent portfolio, but also as an intuitive and entertaining experience. The solution - an endless nebula of nodes, each representing a project, searchable by brand, agency, production company, location, and time using the touch interface. Mill Touch is located at their NY office.

CREDITS

Created at The MIll.

ANIMATION

Citibank installation at JFK airport in the American Airlines International Terminal.

CREDITS

Director: Rama Allen

Created at The Mill New York

ILLUSTRATION