Silver Advertising, Marketing and Communication Design · 2021
Full Moon Social Ad
- A' Design Award 2021 Silver Winner in Advertising, Marketing and Communication Design
- Awarded April 15, 2021
- CLIENT: Rothco, part of Accenture Interactive
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 33,223
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About Full Moon Social Ad
Full Moon is a social media advertisement created for Guinness. The visual was published in Facebook and Instagram feeds and stories on Halloween night in 2020, when a rare blue moon was visible around the world. The image was produced through retouching and photo manipulation in Adobe Photoshop. High resolution moon references, brand images and beer textures were combined in layers to form a single picture. The intention was to join a global conversation with a simple link between the moon and a glass of beer.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- While the whole world was talking about this curious full moon, Guinness became part of the conversation by posting this unique visual to light up social media feeds on Halloween night.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Facebook & Instagram feed/stories.
- Tags
- beer, Guinness, halloween, moon, Ireland
- Production Technology
- The project was designed on Adobe Photoshop through retouching and photo manipulation using high resolution images. The final image is a combination of layers using moon references, Guinness images and beer textures.
- Design Challenge
- The biggest challenge involved retouching and photo manipulation to find the right visual balance. This was achieved on Photoshop by combining different layers with images from the archive and brand assets like the creamy foam photography.
- Project Duration
- The project was developed in October 2020 in Dublin, Ireland.
- Operation Flow
- The post reached 662,500 people in Ireland, driving 2,600
to the brand website - www.guinness.com - in only a few hours. - Research
- Using the visual database from websites like Google and Nasa, a vast image research was made and a rich archive was created to be used as reference while developing the project. Then these images were combined and compared with brand assets to create the final visual.
- Inspiration
- A blue moon, as anyone who has heard the phrase might guess, is a rare phenomenon. A blue moon on Halloween visible all over the globe is even more rare. This unique event happened on 31 October 2020, and the next one will only happen on Halloween 2039.