A brand campaign for You by Sally, Sally Beauty's hair color line. Real people instead of models, oversized swatches, and a look that holds from an influencer's bio page to a retail sign.

Preview · 5 frames
The You By Sally campaign in a five-panel street display case on a stone wall, portraits either side of the mosaic and the I AM MY HAIR panel
2Real People

The cast runs across age, gender and style.

The backgrounds are saturated, the styling is confident, and the product comes second to the person in the frame.

You By Sally cast portraits — real people paired with signature hair color shades on saturated backgrounds
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The cast
Each paired with a shade
Saturated grounds

Scroll. It fills the mat, then travels the frame

You By Sally campaign — additional cast frame on saturated color ground

Color treated like a creative decision

3Oversized Swatches

The chips on the back of a box are too small to pick from.

These are big enough to choose by eye.

The grid runs from a 320px influencer bio page up to a 6-foot retail sign. The blocks and their order stay put. Only the size changes.

You By Sally swatch system on mobile — oversized color blocks in a clean grid
You By Sally influencer bio page on mobile — saturated portrait with shade name and product link
You By Sally influencer bio page variant on mobile — second cast member with their signature shade
The You By Sally mosaic, hundreds of cast portraits behind the paint-swatch lockup

Pink for the personality, cyan for the contrast, and black under both so the two loud colors never turn into noise.

The pink and the cyan stay the same on every surface, and that is what makes a phone screen and a store sign read as the same brand. One type family. Avenir Next Heavy for the wordmark, Demi Bold for the shade names and the SHOP NOW callouts, Medium for everything else. Three weights of one family gave the layouts all the contrast they needed.

MarkMark: The markThe mark
TypefaceYOU BY SALLYYOU BY SALLYWordmark
Palette
4Where It Ran

Bio pages, email and retail signage, all on the same grid.

The cast portraits, the swatch grid and the type went out together, on influencer bio pages, in email and on the signs in the stores.

Services
Campaign Direction
Brand System
Digital Design
Retail Signage
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Photoshop
Illustrator
InDesign
Studio photography
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How it starts

A real conversation and a brainstorm, and a direction we both agree on. The work moves quickly from there.

What I take on

The brand, the thing people use, and the back of house that keeps it running. Not just a handoff, and not just a tool.

When it's done

A brand, a piece of software, a room. None of them are ever really done. There's a time to launch, let it sit, see how people use it, and decide what's next. You can't keep working on it in the background forever.

Services

  • Art Direction
  • Brand Systems
  • Digital Design
  • Interiors

Practice

  • Independent, Texas
  • Design and build
  • I love the work
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HCredits

  1. Crate & Barrel
  2. Nordstrom
  3. Ivy Park by Beyoncé
  4. Neiman Marcus
  5. Rejuvenation
  6. Lostine Home
  7. Visual Comfort
  8. Floor & Decor
  9. Kingston Brass
  10. Design Within Reach
  11. Vivir Homes
  12. Haven
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The setupIndependent, Texas. Design and build. I love the work.
What I doArt direction. Brand systems. Digital design. Interiors.
Aug 22

The homepage is three columns now: the wordmark left, the sentence and the question in the middle, the address right. They sit on the nav bar rather than under it, so the bar carries the page's own type instead of a strip of empty rule. Everything came down to two sizes, 32 and 12, inside a 50px frame on all four sides.

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Aug 22

Image editing takes twelve inputs instead of four.

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