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Drake & Morgan: 📍 Spring Is Here

A spring campaign for a London bar group, built on their initials.

Dusk and Magic key visual, golden hour on a terrace

Dusk & Magic

Key visual

Dare and Mix, a new cocktail being served

Dare & Mix

Bar serve

Dine and Mingle, hands reaching across a shared table

Dine & Mingle

Social

Dusk & Magic

Golden hour deserves one more round.

For terrace signs, and social posts around golden hour.

Daylight & Mischief

The meeting ended. Nobody went home.

For weekday emails and social, aimed at people working in the City.

Dare & Mix

Order the one you've never tried.

For menus and the bartender's special.

Dine & Mingle

Pass the plate. Stay for another story.

For menus and table talkers.

Every bar group launches a terrace and a spritz in spring, and they all say it the same way. My first ideas were the same too, things like "Swing Into Spring", which any bar in London could have run.

Then I looked at their name and used the initials. Every line pairs a D word with an M word, for moments people already have after work, and they all sign off with 📍 Spring Is Here, wherever the pin lands. And because it's their initials, nobody else can use it.

The rules I gave myself

It carries into the bars as well: signposts, lanterns projected on the pavement at night, and a Pairing Passport you get stamped as you work through them.

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Idea, strategy and copy

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Self-initiated

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