• DIRECTV ART DIRECTOR: PRINT PRINT, EMAIL, DIRECT MAIL, BILLBOARD ENTERTAINMENT 
  • DIRECTV ART DIRECTOR: PRINT PRINT, EMAIL, DIRECT MAIL, BILLBOARD ENTERTAINMENT 
  • DIRECTV ART DIRECTOR: PRINT PRINT, EMAIL, DIRECT MAIL, BILLBOARD ENTERTAINMENT 
  • DIRECTV ART DIRECTOR: PRINT PRINT, EMAIL, DIRECT MAIL, BILLBOARD ENTERTAINMENT 
  • DIRECTV ART DIRECTOR: PRINT PRINT, EMAIL, DIRECT MAIL, BILLBOARD ENTERTAINMENT 
  • DIRECTV ART DIRECTOR: PRINT PRINT, EMAIL, DIRECT MAIL, BILLBOARD ENTERTAINMENT 
  • DIRECTV ART DIRECTOR: PRINT PRINT, EMAIL, DIRECT MAIL, BILLBOARD ENTERTAINMENT 
  • DIRECTV ART DIRECTOR: PRINT PRINT, EMAIL, DIRECT MAIL, BILLBOARD ENTERTAINMENT 

DIRECTV

The BRIEF

Role: Art Director, Print

Period: 2008-2012

Platform: Print, Email, Direct Mail, Billboard

Lift: Customer Print Loyalty and Buyback

The TEAM
  • Jill Gwaltney, Founder, Chairman & CEO, Rauxa
  • Cara Martin, Graphic Designer
  • Rogelio Rivera, Graphic Designer, Rauxa
  • Eric Woo, Graphic Designer, Rauxa
  • Annabelle Lepe, Senior Graphic Designer, Rauxa
  • Karla DeMarco, Studio Manager
  • Dana DeLaurentis, Senior Account Manager
  • Michelle Toledo, Creative Strategy Executive, Rauxa
The RUNDOWN

Having freelanced in direct mail for agencies like RAUXA DIRECT and CAMPBELL MITHUN during my years in Los Angeles, there was a period where these agencies ran low on projects during the quieter summer period. Unexpectedly, I began to get emails from both agencies asking if I could take work remotely as their client, DirecTV had an overflow of work based on a new campaign to recover previous clientele during the period of OTA/OTV wars between Dish TV, streaming services and DirecTV. I was not only cleared to take the overflow as the jobs were not large enough for the agencies, but referred because of my prior work for them.

Each region had a slightly-different design aesthetic for their direct mail campaign, but there was the consistent messaging across all media. Shortly thereafter, I was asked to work within the DirecTV headquarters to fulfill both print and digital asset requests. From direct mail to brochures to billboards, I was partially responsible for your seeing DirecTV marketing almost everywhere you looked. Within a year, I was requested outside of the Pacific DirecTV market by the Chicago and New York markets implementing their versions of the campaign.

THE CHARGE
  • Ensured resources are allocated according to project needs
  • Approached situations and individuals with honesty, integrity and humility
  • Demonstrated to clients that an understanding of their marketing challenges and was responsive to their strategic needs in proposing creative solutions
  • Lead design direction by providing subordinate creatives key assets for each leg of the campaign build (print and digital color breakdowns, templated breakdowns for ratio/sizes, imagery selection and definition of photographic color treatment and adjustments)