Danone [🎥&📷]
Art Director
Creamy smiles rich in Calcium.
TYPE OF WORK
Art Direction / Food Photography / Video Content / Brand Visual System
IDEA
Make Danone yogurt brand icons instantly recognizable and appetizing through a coherent visual system.
OVERVIEW
Led the visual refresh for Danone yogurt, creating a flexible image system across photography and video.
The system leveraged playful cues—textures, gestures, and ingredient details—to strengthen appetite appeal, brand recognition, and consistency across campaigns and media formats.
MY ROLE
Directed the visual refresh from concept to production, shaping a system that could scale across campaigns and formats.
Defined photographic principles, food-styling rules, framing, and composition to ensure consistency while enhancing appetite appeal.
Led shoots on-site and guided the team to maintain alignment with brand guidelines and strategic objectives.
CHALLENGE
Modernize Danone’s imagery to feel fresher and more appetizing without eroding the trust and familiarity built with consumers over decades.
CREATIVE APPROACH
Built a visual language around iconic brand cues—creamy textures, playful ingredient patterns, and spoon-in-action moments.
Designed a flexible system that could adapt across stills and video while instantly triggering appetite and maintaining the human, generous feel of the brand.
OUTCOME
Delivered a scalable visual system implemented across campaigns, formats, and media.
Strengthened brand recognition, elevated appetite appeal, and reinforced Danone’s positioning as a brand of simple, everyday pleasure.