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University of Pennsylvania LPS Online // Digital Advertising

Working with this prestigious Ivy League client was a milestone for VisionPoint Marketing and myself personally. It was also something of first: Penn was opening the doors to its renowned education, offering the first ever online undergraduate degree, a Bachelor of Applied Arts & Sciences. Created for the College of Liberal and Professional Studies’ online offering, these digital display ads as part of a campaign aim to play up the striking headlines and keep the simplicity and realness of what the online program ultimately stands for at Penn. The family of ads is a result of collaboration between myself, other designers, the creative director, content writers, and strategists.

 
 

On-Screen Mockups

 

 
 

Process 

 

 
 

Penn’s Bachelor of Applied Arts & Sciences degree stands on its pillars of attainability, flexibility, practicality, and immediate investment in your future. The display ads and campaign had to speak to this as well as cater to the main goals of increasing awareness about Penn LPS Online programs and creating/sustaining potential applicants to these programs.

From the concepting phase, I worked with the creative director, strategist, and content writer to familiarize myself with these strategies and goals of the project before taking that knowledge and diving into design.

Before my start on the project, the client and our internal project team came to an agreement that the idea for this campaign is to play on the idea that the new degree is “too good to be true” by turning that skepticism into a selling point. We established the importance of putting the headlines front and foremost, packing a punch with a powerful message speaking to the realness of this new degree. To keep with this simple approach, I explored how color, photography, and space can play a role in supporting the content as opposed to taking attention away from it.

With more team collaboration, I came up with three solid concepts (below) to present to Penn.

 
 

The first concept was chosen by the client to function as a template for future content. From that point, the project was passed on to another designer who built out the remaining ad sizes from the selected template and switched out new content for many ad sets.