BRAND EXPERIENCE + CREATIVE MARKETING
Cary LoGrande is a creative marketing strategist, and content producer with experience forging authentic partnerships and cultivating brand awareness across digital and experiential marketing landscapes. He combines an intimate understanding of shaping brand narrative along with an extensive background in producing immersive events to build community.
Adept at market research, analysis, and creative problem-solving, with a proven track record of increasing brand awareness, customer engagement, and revenue generation.
RECENT WORK
UCLA: MOMENT OF REFLECTION
As we entered year 3 of the pandemic, our goal was to create an art-based experience that would create a sense of collective renewal. UCLA Alumni, Refik Anadol was commissioned to create the resulting work, "Machine Simulations: Nature" – a dazzling display from feeding machine-learning algorithms a dataset of more than 300 million images of nature. Thousands of guests experienced this immersive event which was ultimately extended to accommodate growing demand.
ROLE: Account Manager & Brand Strategy
CLIENT: UCLA
AGENCY: Manifold
SERVICES: Campaign Management, Experiential Marketing, Event Production, Content Creation, Social Media
AWARDS: Event Marketer Experience Design & Technology (Gold)
UCLA: PAC-12 TV COMMERCIAL
The 2022 school year brought many successes that UCLA was eager to share, like being ranked the #1 public university for the 6th straight year! We produced an integrated campaign to spread the cheer with the new school year.
ROLE: Account Manager & Brand Strategy
CLIENT: UCLA
AGENCY: Manifold
DIRECTOR: William Kirkley
SERVICES: Campaign Management, TV Commercial Production
NIKE: NIKELAND
Working closely with the Nike Global Brand and Brand Creative teams, we designed a Roblox experience that would empower kids, inspire them to imagine the future of sport, and get them moving in real life. The result was one of the largest, most ambitious Roblox worlds to date, with first-ever gameplay mechanics and accelerometer integration.
The result was a huge success integrating; LeBron, Giannis, Mbappé, All Star Weekend, Air Max Day — over 33+ million people have visited NIKELAND, and the experience has been featured in Hypebeast, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, and more.
ROLE: Program Manager & Strategy
CLIENT: Nike
AGENCY: Skylight Collective
SERVICES: Gameplay Ideation, Visual Direction, Copy, Key Art, Game Design
CIVB (Bordeaux Wine Bureau)
We were approached by the region of Bordeaux with the goal of redefining the perception of Bordeaux wines to better reflect the diversity and approachable nature of the wines in the region. The result was a 3-city tasting tour of unreleased wines from small, family estates that are breaking free of tradition!
CLIENT: CIVB (Bordeaux Wine Bureau)
ROLE: Account Manager & Brand Strategy
AGENCY: Manifold
SERVICES: Brand development, Creative Direction & Design, Experiential Marketing, Content Creation, Event Production
UCLA: PRIDE
Royce Hall is an iconic landmark on the UCLA campus that we were honored to bring to life in celebration of Pride and various other important moments throughout the year through creative use of projection mapping and lighting art direction.
ROLE: Account Manager & Brand Strategy
CLIENT: UCLA
AGENCY: Manifold
SERVICES: Campaign Management, Creative Direction, Experiential Marketing, Event Production, Content Creation, Social Media
ACE HOTEL & SWIM CLUB
Ace Hotel is well known, among the hotel industry, for breaking genres and creating lasting trends. Their ethos of planting roots in the local community, embracing artists, makers, and creating a space for creative minds to cook up new ideas has become a new standard and definition of true hospitality. From Winter 2017 to Spring 2020 I had the opportunity to be a part of the magic.
ROLE: Experiential Marketing & Brand Manager