Asan Aslam

 

— About

Asan first got his break as a packaging designer. Although it was short lived, he managed to produce work for Tesco and Disney which he describes as 'solid'. He then got into digital and created advertising for Sony and Vodafone. Variety has always been the key for Asan and when Channel 4's Jon Snow offered the brief to rebrand his charity (New Horizon Youth Centre) in time for its 40th birthday, it was an offer he couldn't refuse. Asan did more of the same for YCN, an organization dedicated to helping young people get a start in the creative industries. And a few films, websites, press ads and book publications later he joined Publicis London.

At Publicis he worked on most of the agencies accounts in all mediums. Eventually leading the creative on the award winning British Army, Renault and LG accounts. After 5 years he left to do more projects with the likes of Fallon (Cadbury's), creative directed an Arts project for Louis Vuitton and helped launch a product from scratch (Heart Part, google it, it's really good).

In the mist of this he somehow managed to find himself in the small mountain town of Boulder, Colorado, at a not so small agency called Crispin Porter + Bogusky. There he is kept busy with clients such as Coke Zero and Under Armour.

From past and present, he has worked with a wide range of clients including; Coca Cola, Carlsberg, Jim Beam, Louis Vuitton, Under Armour, Wonderbra, Renault, Hewlett Packard, Sony, LG, Vodafone, Disney, Cadbury's, Tesco, COI, British Army, Airbus, easyJet, Visa and RBS.

In the not so near future Asan would like to write and direct a screenplay. Most of all however, he would still love to race around the world as an Formula 1 driver. One must dream.

 

— Awards

Cannes Lions x 5
D&AD x 2
One Show x 3
ADC x 1
Creative Circle x 3
Clio Awards x 1
New York Festivals x 10
Campaign Big Awards x 1
Webby Awards x 4
Eurobest x 2
ANDYs x 1
BIMA x 3
Revolution x 1
MCCA x 1
IAB Creative Showcase x 1
Epica Awards x 3
Marketing Week Engage Awards x 1
AME Awards x 1
London International Awards x 1
Recruitment Advertising Awards x 3

 

— Contact

If you want to get in touch to discuss projects or availability, then I'd be pleased to hear from you. Unless you think I've broken something and you want me to replace it.

info@asanaslam.com
US (001) 303.437.1571
UK 0044 (0) 7912.381.636

 

— Twitter

 

 

Creative Direction / Design Direction

— Coke Zero. Last Request.

Coke Zero. Last Request.

The latest Coke Zero commercial “Last Request”, is the tale of a young man who finds himself up before a firing squad in a strange land. He’s granted one last wish: a Coke Zero. But after seeing the word “and” on the can (as in real Coke taste AND zero calories), he decides to ask for more AND more. It just goes to show what a little can of everything can inspire.

 

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— Renault. The Mégane Experiment.

The Megane Experiment

Overview / Teaser / TVC 01 / TVC 02 / TVC 03 / Documentary / Banner Ad / Web 01 / Web 02 / Web 03 / Web 04 / Web 05 /
Web 06 / Web 07 / Web 08

We noticed a strong statistical relationship between towns with higher Renault Mégane sales and those with higher rates of fertility, happiness and life expectancy. Coincidence? The Mégane Experiment is the true story of one man’s journey to discover whether a car can change a town.

All media drove consumers to TheMéganeExperiment.com where they could follow Claude’s journey, view the controversial 11 minute documentary film, test their own levels of Joie de Vivre, and compare their town’s Joie de Vivre via an interactive map, that also showed their nearest Renault dealer. They were then given the opportunity to book a Mégane test drive and find out for themselves what the car was all about.

The campaign created quite a stir with over 500 million media impressions, almost 250,000 unique visitors to the website and over 500,000 YouTube views.

The Mégane Experiment has so far been recognised by Cannes, D&AD, One Show, Clio and the Golden Drum awards.

 

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— COI Army. Start Thinking Soldier.

British Army - Start Thinking Soldier

Overview / TVC 01 / TVC 02 / TVC 03 / TVC 04 / Website 01 / Website 02 / Website 03

The latest campaign for the British Army was designed to be different. The target audience now spent a lot of their time online and they expected more engagement than purely traditional media could deliver. So we decided to let them discover what soldiering was really about for themselves.

Four television adverts drew users to the website with a challenge - "What would you do?"

From then on the user took control - we created missions using Flash, 3D and the Unity platform that put users in realistic scenarios - from fighting in built up areas to problem solving, humanitarian work, parachuting, and driving the Army's range of 4x4 vehicles across rugged terrains.

From online the users were invited to try it for real and moved on to the live events.

To date we have had more than 2.5 million site visits, almost 80,000 registrations, 31 million page views, with users spending an average of 10 minutes on the site per visit. Our bounce rate is less than 2%, and for the first time in 12 years, the Army has filled its recruitment quota of 15,000 recruits. The campaign has won numerous awards including Cannes, D&AD, Campaign Big, London International and The Webby's. It was also named as one of the most contagious campaigns of 2009 by Contagious Magazine.

 

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— Renault. The 12 Second Strip.

Renault Wind. 12 Second Strip

Overview / Web Film / Website 01 / Website 02 / Website 03 / UG Strip 01 / UG Strip 02 / Strip 01 / Strip 02

Renault has a new addition to the family this summer (the Wind Roadster) and wanted us to quite simply show it off. Being avid viewers of Top Gear, we noticed that the first thing they always criticise about all convertible cars is the convertible bit and how inefficient the roofs normally are. Well, the good news for us was the smart French people at Renault had managed to get this roof opening and closing in only 12 seconds, without a fuss and of course being French - with just the right blend of joie de vivre.

The concept was born - lose your winter woollies with more joie de vive than the Wind Roadster, upload it via YouTube (tag it 12 second strip) or directly on The 12 Second Strip website and the car could be yours.

The 12 Second Strip has won awards at Cannes, Creative Circle, New York Festival, Eurobest and Art Directors Club.

/ See the website

 

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— LG. Pro V Joe / LG Loop.

LG

AD 01 / AD 02 / Website 01 / Website 02 / Press

LG wanted to let the public know that their range of mobile phone handsets came with cameras that were well ahead of the competition.

The idea was simple - you don’t have to be a professional photographer with expensive equipment to take a great shot.

We created a two tier campaign, beginning with the Pro v Joe photography competition and leading on to the LG Loop site which acted as a place people could share their photographs. The Pro v Joe campaign launched with online video, banners, press, outdoor, taxi and in-flight advertising.

The response was incredibly strong with the campaign reaching 6.5 million people. Loop generated 100,000 customer engagements, each spending an average of 2.5 minutes on the site. The campaign has been featured in many publications including Campaign and Revolution Magazine.

 

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— Renault TV. The Launch.

renault

01 / 02 / 03 / 04 / 05

Renault were taking the big step from traditional advertising routes to a more complete user interaction. One key part of this was Renault TV, a digital and online channel that would give viewers motoring entertainment. We were asked to create the concept for the online platform. We developed a clean, stylish and easy to use site concept that gave users access to huge amounts of video with the highest possible quality. This project was for Publicis Entertainment and the concept was developed and put into place by All of Us.

/ See the website

 

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— easyJet. The Great easyJet Getaway.

EasyJet

AD 01 / AD 02 / Facebook 01 / Facebook 02

easyJet wanted to begin gathering a following on social networking sites, so we created the Great easyJet Getaway competition.
A simple mechanic that relied on assets people already had (embarrassing photos on facebook) and a sense of humour.

To win holidays and flights, all you had to do was come up with a convincing reason why you needed to get out of the country as quickly as possible - you simply left a photo with a caption on the easyJet fanpage. This was kicked off with some facebook banner advertising.

For such a simple campaign the result has exceeded client expectations, almost quadrupling the number of easyJet’s friends on facebook in a month.