Client:
Konica Minolta
Campaign, set design, print samples and design direction: Barry Redford
Concepts: Samantha Rickwood, Rob Lloyd
Motion: Dan Harman
Creative direction: Tristan Pride
Additional design: Nat Coombes
Inspiring professional printers to enter a new dimension of print possibilities
Brief – In a rapidly-changing print business industry, challenged on all sides, our mission was to show that Konica Minolta are truly on the side of small print business owners.
Targeting a niche European audience – circa 7,000 small, micro and family business owners – whose job is to invest in the right technology to secure the future of their business. They are frequently paralysed by indecision, because the wrong decision could mean game over.
Our job was to show this niche audience what they needed most: inspiration and clear direction – all while delivering unprecedented engagement.
While other manufacturers talk speeds, feeds and functions, Konica Minolta took a completely different approach. Talking to the audience as creatives, not just printers. Like a real partner.
As research told us, the challenges our audience face can’t be solved by printing faster. But by embodying creativity; craft; new techniques. So we put them at the heart of our film, in a way not seen before. And created a blockbuster to inspire the SMB print world to ‘See the potential’.
Taking a modest, empty studio, we transformed it into a awe-inspiring world made entirely of print – produced on the new Konica Minolta printer lineup. We then filmed our own print hero as he journeyed through the different paper-based worlds: in one stunning shot. Why? Because we knew to inspire our audience, it was vital to show the same passion for craft as they do.
