2020/2021 Winners & Shortlists

MINIMAL

Short List
BrandNISSAN MIDDLE EAST
Product/ServiceNISSAN
EntrantTBWA\RAAD Dubai, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
CategoryDigital & Interactive Design
Idea Creation TBWA\RAAD Dubai, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Media Placement OMD Dubai, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Production BELIEVE Santiago, CHILE

Background

The automotive industry has continuously been developing new technologies to make driving safer & more exciting. Nissan is at the forefront of this technological development and has introduced a suite of integrated technology that’s designed to enhance safety, comfort, connection & control. This suite of technology comes under the umbrella of Nissan Intelligent Mobility (NIM) and most Nissan vehicles today are equipped with multiple NIM features. Through NIM, Nissan has successfully become the leader in electric vehicles, autonomous vehicles and vehicles with connected technology. While this is great for the brand, the unfortunate reality is that the awareness of Nissan Intelligent Mobility at an overall brand level is very low (Nissan Brand track study). Simply put, we needed to get people to start seeing Nissan for what it really was by enhancing the awareness for Nissan Intelligent Mobility (NIM) and the key features that are available in Nissan cars today.

Describe the creative idea (40% of vote)

We were targeting the core car buying demographic of 18 – 35, glued to their phones spending up to 7 hours a day on their mobile phones (Source: YouGov). While the purpose of the new high-tech features in cars is to make people’s lives easier, their communication is quite complicated – a matrix of lines, dots, robots etc. More the complication, more the feature is perceived to be high-tech, or that’s what the auto brands like to believe in. We wanted to break away from this convention and present NIM in the simplest yet intuitive & engaging manner. Minimalism is one of the hottest design trends of recent times and we wanted to leverage the ‘less is more’ philosophy to showcase Nissan’s innovative tech features. This was the birth of our idea – miNIMal. A series of minimalistic, looping animation videos that showcase NIM features in the simplest way possible.

Describe the execution (40% of vote)

Our minimalist design started with showing the car as a simple moving marble sphere. To highlight & differentiate a car with NIM features, it’s shown as a translucent marble sphere with blue veining that comes to life when a NIM feature is activated. Other cars are showed as solid white or black marble spheres or stones. Car as a sphere design governed the minimalist design of the overall environment: a clean and simple world made up of simple geometric shapes – lines, curves, spheres & cylinders. Terrains are represented as natural textures inspired from the real world – marbles, sand, wood or carpets. The colors of the environment are kept subtle & subdued to highlight the car sphere movements. The movement in the world is paced in a very balanced manner without any sudden jerks or stops. Looping this video gives a smooth, continuous motion effect to the world.

List the results (20% of vote)

The miNIMal videos were very well-received on Nissan’s regional social channels with KPIs exceeding benchmarks: • Click through rate (CTR) – 30% higher than category benchmarks • Cost per View – 50% lower than Nissan benchmarks • Cost per engagement (CPE) – 30% lower than Nissan benchmarks • View Through Rate (VTR) – 35% higher than Nissan benchmarks Source: Media Agency Data

Credits

Name Company Role
Walid Kanaan TBWA\RAAD Chief Creative Officer
Jennifer Fischer TBWA\RAAD Chief Innovation Officer
Joe Lahham TBWA\RAAD General Manager/MD
Manuel Borde TBWA\RAAD Executive Creative Director
Bruno Bomediano TBWA\RAAD Executive Creative Director
Alex Pineda TBWA\RAAD Copywriter / Creative Director
Oswaldo Sa TBWA\RAAD Art Director ACD
Claudio Campisto TBWA\RAAD Head of Art
Lucas Pimenta TBWA\RAAD Motion Designer
Rouba Asmar TBWA\RAAD Head of Production
Alia Fakha TBWA\RAAD Producer
Nour Dalle TBWA\RAAD Account Manager
Kevin Kurian TBWA\RAAD Account Director
Bhaskar Bateja TBWA\RAAD Stragic Planning Director
Garrett Olexiuk TBWA\RAAD Senior Planner
Romy Abdelnour TBWA\RAAD Communications Director
Cristóbal Pérez-Gazitúa Believe Head of Production
Karola Tapia Believe Producer
Remie Abdo TBWA\RAAD Head of Strategy
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