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
