Back to College

Campaign 2018

Rethinking the back-to-college shopping experience

Role: Creative direction, art direction, styling

As Jet was beginning to reorient its core demographic, we took on the task of elevating the stale Back to College campaign. We told our story through relatable moments that both humanized the back to college experience and effectively leveraged our core categories. Working cross-collaboratively with UX, editorial, and photography partners, we created a bespoke experience tailored to a new generation of college students.

Jet.com Back to College: care package photo

Concept Phase

Taking this project from end-to-end was a new and collaborative process. In addition to internal brainstorms that I led, I also worked with the UX and copy teams to visualize the campaign. We landed on three main ideas and fleshed them out to present to our marketing partners.

Messaging

Campaign voice

Back to College concept board: real-life still life
TexturalPlanes
Color

Three final concepts in order: Lifestyle moments, Textural Planes, Color

UX-Concept-Mockup

Landing Page Experience Mockup

Photography

We worked with photographer Lucy Schaeffer to successfully capture the lived-in moments of our final concept. Working with tight constraints, I worked the set as both art director and stylist. 

Jet.com Back to College: move-in day photo
Jet.com Back to College: move-in day photo
Jet.com Back to College: off-campus photo
Jet.com Back to College: all-nighter photo
Jet.com Back to College: all-nighter photo

Final Campaign

Using final photography and social videos captured separately we built a robust campaign with various active channels including: site, native, display, and social. 

Back to College campaign comp
Back to College landing page on Jet.com
970×250

Display Ad Mockup

Back to College layout template

IG Story Template - UCG Video

Back to College layout template

IG Story Template - Photography

Back to College concept board
Back to College concept board
Back to College concept board

Storyboard for FB Video Ad combining UCG video and campaign imagery

Collaborators:

Jet.com Creative Director: Eurie Kim

Jet.com Art Director: Anne Ritchie

Photography: Lucy Schaeffer

Additional Design: Laura Sousa

Editorial: Lincoln Thompson, Nick Morgan