H-E-

Advertising Capstone

Brand Launch

Marketing Design

H-E-B: Field & Future

Competing to help define the look and feel of a new H-E-B product category made to simplify green buying for all

Role & Team:  Designer, Capstone Design Group
Setting:  UT Austin Senior Design Capstone
Members:  Diego Martinez, Sammy Feingold, Anna Norman, Destiny Gonzalez, Grace Young

challenge

H-E-B asked our university agency to create a 360 degree ad campaign for Field & Future, a new line of eco-friendly products. The creative team worked to establish its brand identity.

work

Using research and the media planning budget, we as the creative team ideated a vision for the product line and produced numerous executions with visual and copy elements.

result

In a presentation to H-E-B agency leadership, we pitched our Simplicity at Every Step campaign, resulting in H-E-B's awarding of our class agency as the winning campaign.

Research

Gauging competition and green-conscious buyers

Early in our agency process, the research team got to work figuring out where this new line of green H-E-B products would sit in competition with other existing product lines. From this we gathered insights, like the fact that the most important things to green-buyers was performance and price, and that Field and Future had a special opportunity to position itself as lower-cost option for Texans compared to other brands. These insights would help to inform our creative executions further down the road.

Personas

Identifying three main persona types looking for affordable green brands

From these research insights we created personas of those who we envisioned might be a Field & Future customer. These included a mother of two wanting the best products for her family, a young professional concerned about convenience, and a student who looking for a good price while still caring about environmental impact when shopping. We wanted to craft our campaign in a way that would bring all three of these customers to the table, and so that Field & Future would be positioned in a way that would fit their needs. All of this pre-work would eventually lead to the production of our final campaign ethos.

Field & Future: Simplicity at Every Step Campaign

In the final campaign and brand identity we settled on, we wanted to position the brand as something that was light, convenient, accessible, and reliable. This informed our approach of using a palette of vibrant pastel-esque colors, as well as a flowing plant motif throughout. We showed creative executions of how this would impact digital, social, billboard, and in-store signage. We also wanted to show some more modern campaign approaches, with an AR in-store trees-saved counter phone eperience, and a digital app takeover that would direct users to the brand.

Billboard
Outdoor
Signage

Instagram
Page
Takeover

Tree Counter
Experiential
In-store AR

Digital App
Integration

Result

Out of the two class pitch teams, ours came out on top.

H-E-B stakeholders who listened to our pitch had several questions for us, including the following: why would this approach connect emotionally with customers? Our response was that so many people across Texas and America, including people like those in our personas, had felt left out, or priced-out, of the green product revolution. Through this campaign H-E-B had the opportunity to change that narrative. Not much later we learned that wour agency had won the pitch. H-E-B took all of our work into consideration while continuing to prepare the brand for launch.