000%
← All work
Lumen · 2024

A lighting brand that earns the dark.

Lumen launched a flagship range of architectural lighting. We built them a full launch campaign — a 90-second brand film, six product films, and a stills system — all unified by the same simple idea: good lighting earns the dark.

Client
Lumen
Year
2024
Services
2D · 3D · Direction · Campaign
Role
Lead studio

Show light without showing the lamp.

Most lighting marketing leads with the product. We did the opposite — lead with the dark, the space, the mood. Let the light do the marketing, and let the lamp arrive last, almost casually.

Then build a system that works across a 90-second brand film, six 20-second product films, and a stills set sized for everything from billboards to product-detail pages.

Treat darkness as a co-star.

We shot every scene as if the dark itself had character — deep, considered, never flat. The brand film follows a single architectural space at dusk; the product films each take one Lumen product and let it do one thing exceptionally well. The visual rules are simple enough that Lumen's in-house team now extends the system without us.

01
Concept & system
A single visual rule (dark first, light second) extended into 7 films and 30+ stills.
02
Production
Hybrid 3D and live-action; lit in CGI to match the live-action reference, then composited together.
03
Handover
Documented visual rules and component library so Lumen's in-house team can continue the system.
"The campaign sold the range out by Q3. We've been chasing the system for our next launch ever since." — Lumen, head of marketing

The campaign sold the range out.

Lumen's flagship range hit its annual sell-through target before the end of Q3. The campaign was rolled out across six European markets, with the in-house team localising stills and product films using the system we documented.

Sold out
Annual sell-through hit by end of Q3
7
Films delivered (1 brand + 6 product)
6
European markets the campaign was rolled out into
— Next project Title sequence

Northwave