London Design Gold

2024

PA's Brand Impact Index 2024

Entrant Company

PA Consulting

Category

Communication Design - Company Branding

Client's Name

Country / Region

United States

PA’s first, annual survey on U.S. brands, finds consumers are looking for brands to be a catalyst for a better world.



Our survey of 7,000 U.S. consumers found they want brands to operate sustainably, use responsibly sourced materials, and actively champion good causes that cultivate community.



Campaign design challenge.

• An annual Index requires an idea rich enough to provide a wellspring for creative renewal, spanning years.

• As a data-driven report, we need a design system capable of eye-catching activations, and highly consumable data visualisations.

• It needs to instantly signal its subject-matter to a highly design-literate audience, and relatable across sectors from FMCG to social media influencers.



Creative response.

We focussed on the idea of ‘packshots’ – the universal visual language of brands. A packshot is defined as a still or moving image of a product, usually including its packaging and labelling, used to show the product in advertising.



Packshots have evolved into a creative sub-discipline, with its own visual logic: a perfume bottle shown artfully ‘exploding’ from its packaging; or a mass-produced bottle, raised on a pedestal, photographed like a fashion model. No-one questions these tropes, and we wanted to leverage their ubiquity and familiarity, as the framework of a design system.



Adobe Illustrator is ideal for replicating man-made surfaces; with live text, and saleable vector-based graphics, perfect for any media adaptations. It lends executions an ‘uncanny’ feel, which helps avoid confusion with actual brands.



The trope of a pedestal became symbolic of category evaluation and ranking, with a grided backdrop implying systematic analysis.



Our design system uses ‘Hero’ imagery to evoke brands as our subject matter. ‘Spotlight’ imagery, based on packaging design, is used to create smile-in-the-mind ways to enliven key stats. While the basic data utilises the typographic language of product information.



We used our visual identity to create a branded consistency across the category illustrations: this included designing ‘products’ based on our rules for type scaling and image aspect ratios.



We anticipate evolving this concept over many years. Roll-on 2025…!

Credits

CMO / PA Consulting
Jo Scarlett
Business Director / PA Consulting
Laura King
Senior Marketing Manager / PA Consulting
Amy Bloom
Head of Thought Leadership / PA Consulting
Tom Bovingdon
Head of Design Studio / PA Consulting
Bill Cameron
Head of Creative / PA Consulting
Andrew Peach
Senior Digital Experience Manager / PA Consulting
Megan Daniher
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