If there’s one thing I learned working in advertising agencies, it’s that design goes far

If there’s one thing I learned working in advertising agencies, it’s that design goes farIf there’s one thing I learned working in advertising agencies, it’s that design goes far

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Joao Paulo Bastos

pro

• Feb 7

If there’s one thing I learned working in advertising agencies, it’s that design goes far beyond creating beautiful pieces.

The Meet Your New Art Director campaign comes from that mindset. It’s about bringing agency thinking, methods, and experience to founders, startups, and growing brands. Because often, the idea isn’t the problem — what’s missing is direction to make it real.

This project took two weeks of planning, production, filming, and editing. A reminder that strategy comes before visuals, and strong brands are never built by chance.

Today, this video is out in the world.

I hope it reaches you and inspires you to move your ideas forward.

Motion Design Video Editing Video Production Adobe After Effects Adobe Photoshop Adobe Premiere Pro

Webshocker Matjaz Valentar

pro

• Mar 16

Loop cover animation I created for Alt.

Animation 3D Animation Motion Design

Tashfeen Siddiq

pro

• Mar 18

nice

Laura Rautjoki

pro

• Mar 16

I only had a couple of days to take part, so I made a short video rather than trying to overbuild it. Even within that limited time, I wanted to bring something essential from my artistic practice into the piece: emotion, atmosphere, and my ongoing exploration of how women are represented in visual culture. My work often moves between photography, contemporary art, generative AI with strong artistic autorship, and this short piece became a small extension of that thinking.

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Completed work

AI Art kittlchallenge Art Direction Art CapCut Kittl Loom

Akinkunmi Ayo

pro

• Mar 16

amazing work

Nikola Mutovdzhiyski

pro

• Mar 15

This project was created as a scroll-stopping concept ad for Leaf, a fictional gaming laptop brand designed around an unexpected idea: combining the calm, organic world of nature with the intensity and power of high-performance gaming. Instead of presenting the laptop in a typical tech setting, I placed it in a cinematic forest environment to make the brand feel instantly more distinctive and memorable. By building the ad from scratch in Kittl, using custom start and end frames, cinematic motion, and a controlled three-scene reveal, I wanted to create something that not only looked polished, but also told a visual story that could capture attention within seconds and leave a stronger impression than a standard product ad.

AI Art Video Editing Adobe Premiere Pro Kittl kittlchallenge