HAMILTON, BERMUDA — Gin brand BOMBAY SAPPHIRE® has partnered with world-renowned film director and creative visionary Baz Luhrmann to launch its new campaign “Saw This, Made This.” With creativity being cited as the second-most in-demand skill in the world, and with people involved in creative pursuits proven to be more positive, Baz has issued a creative call-to-arms, inviting people to discover the creative inspiration that exists all around them.
In his role as creative director of the campaign, Baz said “I truly believe that everyone is inherently creative, no matter who you are, where you come from or what you do. You don’t have to be labeled an artist to be considered a creative. If you just give yourself permission to see the world as a gallery of inspiration and reframe how you think about things, you’ll unlock a part of yourself you didn’t know existed. By partnering with BOMBAY SAPPHIRE, I want to encourage people everywhere to think about how they can turn the ordinary into the extraordinary and share this inspiration to make the world a more creatively nurturing place.”
The campaign invites people to capture and share on social media what they see in the world that creatively inspires them, and what they have subsequently made, using #SawThisMadeThis. Through collaboration with hundreds of artists and creators from a variety of disciplines, the campaign will feature before-and-after “Saw This, Made This” videos and photos, demonstrating how people can reframe the world around them and turn that inspiration into creative expression. The launch aims to encourage everyone – from creative novices to creative leaders – to join the movement and unlock their creative talents.
In a short film featuring never-seen-before footage from Baz Luhrmann’s personal archive, he talked candidly about how his life experience has shaped his own creative process and shared his philosophy with viewers, inviting them to see the creativity that exists in the everyday. Throughout the campaign, Baz Luhrmann will share on social media the #SawThisMadeThis submissions he finds most creatively inspiring. Submissions will also be celebrated in an evolving online gallery.
Developed by creative agency AMV BBDO, the campaign will culminate in 2023 in an awe-inspiring showcase of the world’s creativity, in partnership with global arts organizations in London and New York, including the Design Museum in London, UK, an industry-leading institution renowned for its support of the creative community. People are invited to join the movement on social media using @BombaySapphire #SawThisMadeThis, with the chance of their creations becoming part of a global showcase of creative inspiration at the Design Museum and other leading creative institutions around the world.
Baz said “With the support of BOMBAY SAPPHIRE, we will celebrate the culmination of the #SawThisMadeThis campaign during World Creativity Day in April. There’s no limit to what you can contribute to the initiative and I’m so excited to help inspire this next generation of creatives.”
Design Museum Chief Executive and Director Tim Marlow commented, “BOMBAY SAPPHIRE is shining a light on the role that art plays in helping us make sense of our place in the world and the latest ‘Saw This, Made This’ campaign aims to encourage people to reconnect with their creative side. From a ‘Saw This Made This’ cocktail, to the incredible inspiration shared by artists around the world, we can all be creatively stirred and turn something seemingly ordinary into our own potential masterpiece.”
Mixologists from all around the world have turned “Saw This” inspiration from their resident cities into unique BOMBAY SAPPHIRE “Made This” cocktails. Martin Siska and Yann Bouvignies of the iconic Scarfes Bar in London have taken creativity from the reflected details of the city lights at Piccadilly Circus on an early winter evening and created a unique mouthwatering drink.
The multi-million-dollar, integrated global campaign “Saw This, Made This” recently launched, with Baz Luhrmann at the helm as Creative Director, and rolls out across ten markets including the US, UK, Spain, Italy, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Greece and the Netherlands.
It’s the next installment of Stir Creativity, the brand platform for BOMBAY SAPPHIRE, and aims to show how creativity can be found everywhere. As part of the campaign, a 90-second film has been created, directed by award-winning advertising Director Juan Cabral, who has brought Baz’s philosophy to life. The breath-taking advert is Juan’s own poetic expression of Saw This, Made This. The film uncovers the limitless beauty in everyday scenes to inspire others to view the world as a gallery. Shot amongst the streets of Buenos Aires, Juan’s home city and a place cited as a source of his creative inspiration, the film takes the audience on a walk of discovery, inviting viewers to step outside, look around and see the world differently.
Inspired by a famous short story from 1945 “The Aleph” by the Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges, Juan uses a poetic extract as the voiceover narration for the film and the music “Arabesque” by Claude Debussy, to take the audience on an exquisite visual journey, aiming to stir creativity in the viewer and invite discovery of the extraordinary in the world around them.
Juan said, “Working with Bombay Sapphire on Saw This Made This alongside Baz Luhrmann has been an incredible journey. With our collective passion for storytelling and turning everyday moments into something extraordinary, we hope to inspire people to reframe the way we see the world.”
BOMBAY SAPPHIRE Global Vice President Natasha Curtin said, “We are thrilled to be collaborating with incredible, visionary creative champions on our latest mission to stir creativity in people around the world. For over thirty years BOMBAY SAPPHIRE has collaborated with creators and artists with the purpose of giving support to and building a platform for creative self-expression. Like Baz and Juan, we believe in the importance of creativity – it is an essential part of what makes us human. With this campaign, we set out to show that creative inspiration is everywhere and to encourage people to reconnect with their own creative side.”
The global through-the-line campaign, developed in partnership with Ogilvy PR and OMD over the last two years, launches today across TV, Cinema, VOD, OOH, Social and PR. Visit here to watch, listen, and share creative inspiration today.
CREDITS:
Client: Bacardi
Brand: Bombay Sapphire
Campaign title: Saw This Made This
Client name: Natasha Curtin and Richard Cuthbert
Creative Agency: AMV BBDO
CCO: Nicholas Hulley and Nadja Lossgott
Creative Director: Michael Jones and Thomas Hazledine
Creative team: Jack Smedley and George Hackforth-Jones
Social creative team: Mat Scholes, Piet Rossouw, Ant Eagle and Kalle Everland
Design team: Chris Chapman, Simon Dilks and Marion Rossignol
Agency Planning Team: Suzanne Barker and Marina Glavan
Agency Account Team: Alistair Nichols, Jamie Pettigrew and Ella Fanshawe
Agency Producers: Verity Elvin, Meg Everett and Charlotte Igharo
Social manager: Lupe Baeyens
Project Manager: Lucy Farmer
Business Affairs: Michelle Holmes, Cate Killeen
Production Company: MJZ
Film Director: Juan Cabral
Production Co. Producer: Nicola Dempsey
Production Co. Executive Producer: Dickie Jeffares
Editing Company: The Whitehouse
Post Editor: Russell Icke
Post-production Company: Rohtau
Sound studio: 750 MPH
Audio Post-production: Sam Ashwell @ 750MPH
Music Production: Pete Raeburn @ Soundtree
PR agency: Ogilvy PR UK
PR Account Team: Jenny McCoubrey, Helen Doyle and Georgia Dwyer
Media agency: OMD UK
Media planner: Natalie Fernandes and Ella Thornborough
