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✱ Case 04Travel · StreetLondon

RIMOWA × SLAWN

Nobody signed this off. That was the point.

An unofficial collaboration SLIMOWA · Reactive campaign
The full film, with sound
ClientRIMOWA × Slawn (spec)
DisciplineArt Direction · Campaign
TriggerThe SLIMOWA drop
/01The Concept

Luxury keeps its hands clean. Slawn leaves fingerprints.

When Slawn dropped his hand-painted SLIMOWA cases, he did what he always does: took one of luxury’s most disciplined objects and left his fingerprints on it. We built the campaign that moment deserved.

A study in tension. We wanted to sit in the space between the two, and see what happens when the cleanest object in travel meets the last artist you’d hand a spray can.

Slawn’s graffiti, rendered onto the iconic RIMOWA silhouette. A single character dropped into an unmistakably British canvas. One world, built to feel real.

SLIMOWA key art: two of Slawn's characters seated between hand-painted RIMOWA cases outside Buckingham Palace
SLIMOWA · campaign key art
/02The Backdrop

Buckingham Palace. Chosen for friction, not prestige.

The most composed, most establishment setting in Britain, meeting an object that refuses to ask permission. The stone, the gates and the restraint of the place became the stage that let the graffiti speak louder.

The model reading a London map in front of the Palace
The Slawn character balloon beside the model, Palace behind
/03The Colour

Three tones, one discipline.

Built on a 60/30/10 system: the warm Palace stone as the foundation, the brushed aluminium of the case as the structure, and the accent that only Slawn could bring as the release.

Restraint in colour is what separates designed from decorated.

60 · Palace stone
30 · Aluminium
10
/04The Craft

No set. No shoot. No crew.

Every frame is AI generated. Just an idea, held to the standard of a real campaign, and the belief that conceptual work only convinces when it is indistinguishable from the real thing. Casting, wardrobe and product were directed the same way they would be on a call sheet, one version at a time.

Casting direction study, hair and eyewear variant
Casting direction study, second variant
Wardrobe study, green track top variant
Wardrobe study, alternate colourway
The hand-painted SLIMOWA case, product study
The SLIMOWA case with the full character panel
The Slawn character rendered as a foil balloon
MELO written in cloud formation above London

Luxury and street aren’t opposites. They’re tension. And tension is where culture actually lives.

Conceptual thinking, built for commercial application

/06What we did
01Creative Direction
02Reactive Campaign Strategy
03Art Direction
04AI Campaign Production
05Colour & Visual Systems
06Brand World Building

Not affiliated with or endorsed by RIMOWA or Slawn. Self-initiated concept work by AndMelo.

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