THE SOUNDLOUNGE POSTER

TitleTHE SOUNDLOUNGE POSTER
BrandCRAFTWORK - A BRAND OF AD AGENCYSERVICES
Product/ServiceSOUNDLOUNGE
Category A05. Music / Sound Design
Entrant BBDO GROUP GERMANY Düsseldorf, GERMANY
Idea Creation BBDO GROUP GERMANY Düsseldorf, GERMANY
Media Placement BBDO GROUP GERMANY Düsseldorf, GERMANY
PR BBDO GROUP GERMANY Düsseldorf, GERMANY
Production CRAFTWORK Düsseldorf, GERMANY
Additional Company IOX LAB Düsseldorf, GERMANY
Credits
Name Company Position
Wolfgang Schneider BBDO Group Germany GmbH Chief Creative Officer
Darren Richardson, Ton Hollander BBDO Düsseldorf GmbH Chief Creative Officer
Kristoffer Heilemann BBDO Düsseldorf GmbH Creative Managing Director
Fabiano Oliveira Proximity Worldwide Creative Director
Miguel Chordá, Stefan Vogtländer Proximity Worldwide Designer
Albert Pozo, Marco Diaz Proximity Worldwide Junior Designer
Michel Dold BBDO Düsseldorf GmbH Copywriter
Steffen Gentis BBDO Group Germany GmbH Chief Production Officer / Copywriter
Sabine Bönigk, Valérie Gentis BBDO Düsseldorf GmbH Agency Producer
Bernhard Burg BBDO Düsseldorf GmbH Director Print Production
Michael Koch CraftWork - a brand of ad agencyservices GmbH Producer
- CraftWork - a brand of ad agencyservices GmbH Post Production Company
- nhb studios Düsseldorf GmbH Post Production Company
Thilo Zweihoff nhb studios Düsseldorf GmbH Producer
- TRO GmbH Audio Production House
Juhn Kim CraftWork - a brand of ad agencyservices GmbH Editor
Robert Jänisch IOX Lab Managing Director
Jan Gansow IOX Lab Project Manager
Thorin Hopkins, Simon Richter IOX Lab HW Developer
Mike Bayfield Proximity Worldwide Copywriter
Markus Steffen, Bastian Kohler TRO GmbH Producer
Ric Scheuss TRO GmbH Music Supervision
Bryan Kessler - Composer / Sound Design
Niklas Lemburg, Alexander Link CraftWork - a brand of ad agencyservices GmbH Director of Photography

The Campaign

We needed to promote an event that was all about sound, using a very traditional medium: a printed poster. So, we brought it alive to create the first printed poster that reacts to sound. The result was a truly interactive experience that people would also talk about to others, amplifying the reach of the idea.

Creative Execution

In line with the theme of the event, we created a printed poster that makes noise visible. Using audio receptors that interactively convert sounds into graphical impulses through microscopic rear-projection technology, we designed the perfect way to announce the first Soundlounge event – by making sound visible After several attempts to come up with a matching artwork to music and sound we ended up with a jazzy blue-note era record sleeve style. As in jazz, the shapes in our artwork come randomly with a certain flow but still stay on a certain grid, just like jazz musicians do. This random artwork style was the perfect mix between what could be a classical poster with one with technology up its sleeves. The poster was placed in the reception areas of five leading sound studios and production houses in Düsseldorf, to directly engage our key target audience. Because they were interactive, they started to come alive with the slightest bit of ambient noise. This caught people’s attention and invited them to interact with the poster even more, making more noise – clapping, shouting, singing, dancing – to reveal more of the message. We also made a short film demonstrating this, showcasing the poster and how it works. This was shared with the trade press, completing the crossover from a traditional print medium into the digital world and amplifying our message further, deep into our target market.