Unifying the brand
At Macy’s, campaigns were defined by seasonal fashion trends and promotional events, but they lacked brand cohesion. I introduced the discipline of building comprehensive style guides to unify the look and feel of all communications within a season. As the same time the campaign was being developed, the guide was drafted in the same Figma file. This encouraged collaboration, real-time refinement, and a consistent brand signature across the work of all agency and internal teams.
Each style guide included insights, objectives, a short description of the campaign idea, and direction for tone, photography, typography, graphics, video and motion, and included execution examples, too. Each of the five guides published annual was 75-100 pages because of the volume of work it influenced.