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Taking a closer look at supply chain risks

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Project

Microsite

Role

Creative Director
3D Designer

Client

Sedex

Agency

Octopus Group (Publicis Groupe UK)

Sedex approached Octopus Group (Publicis Groupe UK) to create a site that would help increase awareness and uptake of their Risk Radar – a platform for businesses to check the risks associated with their supply chain, from discrimination and poor working conditions, to working hours and low pay.

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Sedex is a membership organisation that provides one of the world’s leading online platforms for companies to manage and improve working conditions in global supply chains.

I was adamant in avoiding the obvious route of graphs, explainer copy, editorialised images to communicate the insights, and instead do something creative and stand-out. With that in mind, the creative idea was based on one simple question: how might we show people inside the supply chain of products? The answer was simple: by showing the supply chain journey within the product themselves.

We worked with Sedex to agree the products we’d focus on, and mapped out the associated risks for each one. These included an orange carton illustrating the risks associated with growing oranges, factories, water supply and logistics; a shoe, illustrating the risks associated with leather, inner, rubber and cardboard manufacturing; a toolbox, illustrating the overall risks associated with manufacturing, from discrimination, pollution, forced labour, and excessive hours.

Although we were constrained by a very small budget, while we could have used illustration, rendering these out in 3D was designed to help increase impact when revealing internal scenes inside real, physical products. It would've been great to use true interactive 3D models in the site, but - again - due to budget we focussed on using flat imagery and a simple single scrolling page for each product. Similarly, to reduce production time, each visualisation used off-the-shelf assets as much as possible that we then 'cut' open, placing a mix of newly created and pre-existing objects inside, allowing us to focus on the task of composition and art direction rather than unnecessary time-intensive modelling.

The result was a site that brought supply chain risks to life, avoiding obvious data-led approaches, and instead engaged its audience through beautiful and compelling visualisations.

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They say…

Always hard working and with extremely high standards. He’s also a top bloke to have around and made a big contribution to our award-winning culture at the agency.
– Jon Lonsdale, CEO at Octopus Group (Publicis Groupe UK)
Regardless of the scope or scale of each brief, Dave’s ambition to produce exceptional creative always reigned supreme. Dave was also good fun to be around, bringing lots of humour to work which often brightened busy days.
– Katie Pospischil, Head of Client Services at Octopus Group (Publicis Groupe UK)
Working with Dave is fun, productive and a genuine inspiration – he manages to grasp both the creative requirements for a project, and the technical detail with which to deliver it. It’s quite something to behold. I really enjoyed working with Dave, both for his professional excellence and his brilliant sense of humour, wit and work ethic. I can’t recommend him highly enough.
– Tom Dennis, Head of Content Marketing at English Heritage
Dave has added a huge amount. You can’t be a great marketing agency without a really strong creative department and Dave has delivered that. He leads from the front, with a natural passion for design which means you know he’ll always give 100% to anything he works on. Dave commits! Culturally, Dave is very easy to work with and great to have around. He always speaks his mind as a senior team member, but always in a very balanced and consultative way. He’s also good fun and people enjoy being around him, which is crucial for a management team member.
– Pete Hendrick, MD at Octopus Group (Publicis Groupe UK)