FleishmanHillard FHX Nexus Virtual Event

The agency’s first virtual event, for its top 200 client leaders: a campus look directed to an outside vendor, with the identity and collateral that carried it.

FleishmanHillard · Associate Creative Director, with two other creative directors and an external build vendor

Art direction · Environment direction · Motion · Event identity · Presentation and collateral design


The challenge

FleishmanHillard had never run a virtual event. Nexus was the first, for the agency’s top 200 client leaders, and it had to feel like the agency. An outside vendor built the space.

The work

Set the campus look with two other creative directors. 
I assembled the moodboards that fixed the look and feel of the environment. The vendor built the space from that direction.

Moodboard of architectural and material references for the Nexus virtual campus
Moodboard: the campus look and feel, assembled to brief the vendor.
Second Nexus moodboard covering interior treatment, lighting and materials
Moodboard: interior treatment, lighting and material references.

Designed the event identity, and animated it. 
The Nexus mark, used inside the environment and on everything around it, plus the animated logo prototypes built from it.

The Nexus event logo
The Nexus event mark.
Animated logo prototypes, built from the mark.

Designed the collateral. 
Email invitations, presentation decks, and user guides for navigating the venue.

Nexus event email invitation
The invitation that opened the event.
Nexus user guide pages, itinerary, and client info explaining how to navigate the virtual event
User guides, itinerary, and client info for an audience navigating a virtual venue for the first time.
The Nexus deck cover shown on a desktop screen
Nexus deck cover and its branding.
Nexus presentation slides using the event's visual style
Presentation slides, built to the event look.

RESULTS

The agency’s first FHX virtual event, delivered to its top 200 client leaders

A campus look defined in moodboards and built by an external vendor

The Nexus identity, animated, across the environment and its collateral

Invitations, decks and user guides for the event

Out of the agency and into a product brand: one shoot, an athlete, and a season of content cut from it.

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