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Project
Lait x3
Client
Lait x3
Date
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BRIEF
Pre-launch campaign for an emerging Montreal streetwear label born out of an electronic music collective.
The brand required a fully resolved visual identity, campaign concept, and image system built simultaneously — so that the clothes, the copy, and the photographs would feel like they came from the same night.
the challenge
a campaign that could transmit the feeling of the collective outward without flattening it
specificity without explanation. The campaign needed to feel like documentation, not direction.
Our approach
Brand identity, campaign concept, and image system developed as a single integrated output, built simultaneously from one emotional core.
A ten-image system followed, each image carrying the full visual DNA: camera, lens, film stock, light sources, casting direction, wardrobe, set dressing, and emotional register.
The visual language operates in two registers simultaneously — the editorial flash precision of a campaign and the documentary realism of a photo taken by a friend — producing the specific feeling of scrolling through a night you were at but can only half-remember.
the impact
Delivered a complete brand world. Identity, voice, campaign name, copy system, and visual framework as a single output — not a sequence of deliverables.
Scroll-stopping differentiation landing because it looks like your friends, a night you feel like you were at, not a brand trying to look like a community.
The campaign gave LAIT x3 a way to exist in the world beyond the room where its clothes were first worn — without losing the feeling of that room.
Every image and every line of copy functions as an entry point for someone who hasn't heard of the collective yet, and as recognition for everyone who has.
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