Graphic design for a campaign that breathes diversity and natural body hair into classic Renaissance paintings
Overview
Estrid is a Swedish-based shaving subscription that delivers a high-quality, beautifully designed and inclusive range of shaving products made to last. Their fun and graphic marketing have led them to grow a steady consumer base, and they keep growing! With a solid creative team that generates big ideas, their PR company, the Romans, reached out to Shoreditch Design to help realise the artwork for their latest campaign idea.
They envisioned reimagining classical Renaissance paintings with their diverse body ambassadors and showcasing where each chooses to grow body hair. This was a rich opportunity to help address unrealistic beauty ideals set out by traditional painters, who notoriously painted bodies to make them look more "perfect" with grossly exaggerated muscles on men and distorting the curves on feminine subjects in an anatomically impossible way.
Finished product
In the end, we reached a style that our team and the client were thrilled with. The final set of nine images was carefully crafted to seamlessly place the model into the painting.
Estrid used these images to build an online exhibition (see below) and also hosted an IRL exhibition and celebration of the campaign's launch in Berlin! They complimented the paintings with a gorgeous serif font and glyphs. We are excited to see how Estrid has used the artwork from the campaign as posters around Stockholm, the celebration in Berlin, and globally shared on social media.
The campaign was a large success - and got featured in numerous online publications, including an article by Glamour claiming it was done by AI (spoiler alert - it wasn't).
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