Honouring Captain Sir Tom's legacy with a national grassroots challenge
The challenge
Creating something suitable for this national campaign in memory of Captain Sir Tom on what would be his 101st birthday was no small feat. The Foundation had an existing brand identity which utilised a dark military colour palette. The challenge was to introduce a new creative language that was consistent with the Foundation but also mainstream enough to inspire 7 – 70-year-olds to join the movement and empowering charities with a marketing toolkit they could adopt as their own across campaign identity, website and campaign vision.
- Campaign creation
- Brand identity & application
- Print & digital design
- Web design & development
- Animation
The solution
We started by weaving emotive touches such as a note from Captain Tom’s daughter, Hannah, about the importance of carrying her father’s legacy forward, together with fun and accessible creative touches like hand-drawn brushstrokes and a medal icon all could be proud to wear.
Integrating a bold fundraising totaliser (with APIs from JustGiving and Virgin Money Giving) and challenge stories from real people, the site acted as a source of celebration and inspiration, while actively promoting support for the event through sharing, donations and fundraising. Finally, an extensive marketing toolkit for charities, businesses, organisations and schools around the world enabled us to maximise take-up whilst encouraging individual ownership of the campaign. The toolkit contained over 100 marketing assets, including social media profile and header images, squares and stickers, email marketing, posters, flyers, digital ad banners, presentation templates and more.
The impact
We can’t recommend Studio Republic highly enough. They get right to the heart of your brand using their creativity to communicate it seamlessly across assets. Their attention to detail and work ethic is outstanding meeting deadlines and delivering time and time again. They’ve become an intrinsic part of our team and are simply a joy to work with.
Gemma Huddleston
Marketing Director, The Captain Tom Foundation
