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Patrick Knowlton

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Click Baby Click!

The fable of an Encyclopedia CEO going a little crazy when his company sees a spike in orders, Click, Baby, Click was one of those rare times when all the elements came together without much fuss. The edit came together in two days, and barely changed from there till we locked.

Winner D&AD Craft for Film / In Book
Winner TEDDY - TED 10 Ads Worth Spreading
Winner Ciclope International Festival of Craft - Direction Finalist
Ad Week's Ad of the Day

Cheetos Museum

In 2016, we opened the Cheetos Museum, challenging America to find the best shapes hidden in their Cheetos bags. We launched online films about real Cheetos that were found and followed up with a live museum tour. 

It was the most successful social campaign in Cheetos history, resulting in the strongest sales week ever for the brand. It trended on Facebook for two days and 127,717 unique Cheetos shapes were submitted.
2017 GOLD Cannes Lions X 5
2017 SILVER Cannes Lions X 2
2017 GOLD OneShow

2017 BRONZE OneShow

Head & Shoulder

On our research trip to Japan, we discovered that dandruff was labelled as a “people's disease” in the country. It was often associated with the feeling of shame and being unhygienic, so it was a sensitive topic for Japanese men to talk about. Advice was not easily found, and shampoo was never thought to be a solution to dandruff. Head & Shoulders themselves were not seen as an anti-dandruff brand, and had low brand awareness in the overall hair care category. So together with the folks at Head & Shoulders, we decided to tackle dandruff with a more lighthearted, entertaining approach, breaking the category conventions and also the silence around the issue.

Photoshop 25

To celebrate Photoshop’s 25th anniversary, we created a film made entirely from Photoshop PSD files. The film was animated layer by layer using art made by members of Behance (Adobe's social network). The 60 second spot premiered during the Oscars and was nominated for an Emmy.

2015 GOLD Cannes Lions Cyber Social: Use of co-creation & user generated content

2015 SILVER Cannes Lions Cyber Craft: Animation/motion graphics  

2016 D&AD Graphite Pencil

2016 GOLD One Show: Film Consumer - Online Films & Video - User Generated Content

2016 BRONZE One Show: Design Consumer - Short Films & Videos

The Launch

Lost Masterpieces

To launch the new Adobe Stock feature in photoshop we challenged digital artists to re-created famous lost and stolen masterpieces entirely out of Adobe Stock photography without ever leaving photoshop. 

CANNES

Silver - Cyber

Shortlist - Digital Craft

D&AD

Yellow Pencil

CLIOS

Bronze

ART DIRECTORS CLUB
Gold, Silver, Bronze

ONE SHOW

Gold, Silver, Silver

FWA site of the day

SK-II My Destiny

In China, there is a chauvinistic term 好嫁风 or ‘good for marriage’.  The term encourages women to make choices that diminish themselves so they are not too smart, too ambitious, or too successful for the average Chinese man. So to give women a safe space to make life decisions that reflect who they truly are, we created the skincare industry’s first interactive movie: My Destiny, My Choice.

Starring award-winning actress Zhang Zifeng as your best friend, viewers navigated through twelve story paths and over 1 hour of playable content.

“My Destiny, My Choice” premiered at the Vogue Film Festival in Shanghai and was attended by Wu Yanshu, an 85-year-old feminist and actress who gave her own advice after watching: “Follow your heart, be brave. Nothing should prevent you from pursuing what you love”.

Gojek - The Flow

Gojek is Southeast Asia’s leading on-demand multi-service platform.

To launch Gojek's ride hailing and food delivery services into a number of new markets in South East Asia we wanted to create a visual metaphor that represents what you can expect from Gojek's services. The campaign demonstrates how Gojek aims to remove everyday frictions and obstacles to bring more people, more flow in daily life – more days when everything just works.

Building on this, a city was created – a place where everything just flows – representing everything customers can expect from Gojek. It’s a stylised world where cars, people, motorbikes and others can seamlessly co-exist and take all the chaos out of your life. At the centre of it all is a grand a performance where people, motorcycles and cars come together in an unbelievable, coordinated stunt of an epic scale.

The stunt required weeks of careful planning and coordination. It was created by placing a notorious motorcycle “globe of steel” inside a car motordrome to demonstrate the campaign message, “Enjoy the flow”.

At the end, all elements come together in a synchronized spectacle, forming a Gojek logo. Because what better way to introduce a new brand to the market than to make the whole campaign about the logo itself.

The set took 10 days to complete and the production of the campaign film involved 25 cars, 15 motorbikes and as many stunt drivers, looping the giant motordrome 75 times.

I Am a Witness

60% of the time, if a witness speaks up when they see bullying, the bullying stops within 10 seconds. So we wanted to give them a tool to do just that: an emoji.

CANNES
Gold - Social Purpose
Silver - Social Trends
Silver - Cyber

D&AD
Yellow Pencil - Digital Marketing – Use of Social Media

THE ONE SHOW
Silver - Design: Brand Identity (New or Rebrand)
Bronze - Cross-Platform – Non-Profit: Integrated Branding

ADC
Bronze // Ad Council // I Am a Witness // Design, Motion, Illustration – Typography Systems

Bronze // Ad Council // I Am a Witness // Social Content – Social Network Platform

Bronze // UN/Google/Tribeca – Life Below Water // Art Direction - Digital / Motion

Bronze // UN/Google/Tribeca – Life Below Water // Craft in Video - Cinematography

Effies

Bronze // Ad Council // I Am A Witness // Positive Social Change – Non-Profit

Creative Media Awards

Best In Show // Ad Council // I Am A Witness // Social Media

Winner // Ad Council // I Am A Witness // Social Media

WEBBY AWARDS

Webby Awards Winner: ADVERTISING & MEDIA. Public Service & Activism

OMMA

Winner // Ad Council // I Am A Witness // Online Advertising Creativity – Mobile: Integration Across Platforms

IAB Mixx

Silver // Ad Council // I Am A Witness // Social. Community Building

SHORTY AWARDS

Bronze // Ad Council // I Am a Witness // Best Influencer and Celebrity Campaig

SF ADDYS

Silver // Ad Council // I Am a Witness // Integrated Campaign – Public Service

Silver // Ad Council // I Am a Witness // Elements of Advertising – Film & Video, Animation or Special Effects

Silver // Ad Council // I Am a Witness // Public Service Online Film, Video and Sound

Silver // Ad Council // I Am a Witness // Online/Interactive – Social Media – Multiple Platforms

ADDY’S (REGIONALS)

Gold // Ad Council // I Am a Witness // Integrated Campaign – Public Service

Gold // Ad Council // I Am a Witness // Elements of Advertising – Film & Video, Animation or Special Effects

Gold // Ad Council // I Am a Witness // Public Service Online Film, Video and Sound

Silver // Ad Council // I Am a Witness // Online/Interactive – Social Media – Multiple Platforms

NATIONAL ADDY’S

Gold // Ad Council // I Am a Witness // Online/Interactive – Social Media – Multiple Platforms

Gold // Ad Council // I Am a Witness // Public Service Online Film, Video and Sound

Silver // Ad Council // I Am a Witness // Integrated Campaign – Public Service

FACEBOOK AWARDS

Bronze // Ad Council// I Am A Witness // Facebook For Good

Mean Streets

Häagen-Dazs Gelato

Secret Agent

Warriors playoff 2018

The Heist

Nissan

The New Creative

A Cannes Cyber Lion winner, this campaign helped Adobe replace the popular creative software with the subscription-based Creative Cloud, and launched an entirely new type of customer. This integrated campaign projected the customer's crowdsourced self-portraits onto their faces to show art and artist together and included.

2014 Silver Cannes Lions

Gradifi

Woowoo

Pep Talk

In this global campaign for Cisco we tell the amazing stories of what happens when technology helps solve some of the world's biggest problems.

The Space Hotel

To demonstrate the power of Cisco's new collaboration platform we invited an astronaut, a professor of astronautics, an architect and a travel blogger to imagine the world's first space hotel. After many work sessions from around the world, they arrived at an amazing design which was then rendered into a VR experience.

This Is Not a Hotel

The Gambler

More likely

National Geographic

The Living Library

To raise awareness about Adobe new Creative Cloud apps, we turned the world's most inspiring places into a global archive of creative tools – for 6 million Creative Cloud members to make art with.

Webby Awards

Winner - Mobile Integrated Experience

The Concerto App

When you take Häagen-Dazs out of the freezer, it's as hard as a rock. So to help you let it temper for 2 minutes we created an AR concerto that plays when you point your phone at the top of your pint of Häagen-Dazs ice cream.

FWA  mobile of the day

Audubon

Document Horror Stories

Business can be pretty scary if your company isn't signing documents electronically.
Offer letters can get misplaced, paperwork can pile up, and deals can get stuck if you're waiting on faxes and overnight mail.
So switch to Adobe Echosign...before it's too late.

Communication Arts May/June 2015
ADDY AWARDS 2015: SILVER

Pepsi - Ice the Kicker

Billion Dollar Player

Snake Bite

Adobe Document Cloud

People hate paperwork. So when Adobe announced that they had a new program that would digitize all of it and send it to the cloud, it was clear things were about to change. We worked to show how excellent this innovation would by showing the rage people have for that horrible, tedious, paper-thin monster that's in everybody's life.

PRINT // FULL PAGES IN THE WALL STREET JOURNAL & NEW YORK TIMES

Adobe Print

Click Baby Click!

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ADOBE "CLICK BABY CLICK"

Cheetos Museum

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Head & Shoulder

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Photoshop 25

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Adobe - Photoshop 25th Anniversary – "Dream On"

The Launch

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Adobe: "The Launch"

Lost Masterpieces

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SK-II My Destiny

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Gojek - The Flow

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The Flow

I Am a Witness

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Mean Streets

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Adobe: Mean Streets

Häagen-Dazs Gelato

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Haagen Dazs Argument

Secret Agent

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Adobe: Secret Agent

Warriors playoff 2018

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The Heist

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Adobe: "Heist"

Nissan

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The New Creative

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Gradifi

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Woowoo

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Adobe: "Woo Woo"

Pep Talk

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Cisco: Pep Talk

The Space Hotel

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This Is Not a Hotel

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The Gambler

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Adobe: "The Gambler"

More likely

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National Geographic

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The Living Library

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The Concerto App

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Audubon

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Document Horror Stories

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Pepsi - Ice the Kicker

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Pepsi Ice the Kicker

Billion Dollar Player

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Billion Dollar Deal

Snake Bite

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Adobe: Snake Bite

Adobe Document Cloud

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Adobe Print

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