GreatHorn wordmark on the feather-pattern brand texture

GreatHorn Marketing

Tasked with upgrading the brand of a security software start-up. Positioning to stand out at a national security convention, maximizing lead generation.

Role

Art Director, Motion & Graphics Design

Team

Lorita Ba, VP of Marketing

40%

increase in leads generated compared to annual benchmark goal

Challenges

GreatHorn is an emerging start-up in the email security software space. With new technology to improve anti-phishing for companies, I assessed the competition and their visual styles to identify a new direction for the brand. With an emphasis on dominance and utilizing existing brand colors of black and orange, I ensured that during the conferences the company attended this year that the visuals were enticing and unique on the floor. With a talented content and sales team to collaborate the company exceeded marketing expectations at all these events.

Whiteboard planning session mapping the GreatHorn campaign strategy

Project "war room"

GreatHorn conference booth showing the owl-and-shield logo motif

Project "war corner"

Conferences

With an emphasis on dominance and utilizing existing brand colors of black and orange, I ensured that during the conferences the company attended this year that the visuals were enticing as a fresh face.

With footage captured by the team I edited together a quick overview of the success in progress at RSA in San Francisco, the biggest event for the company. Later in the year the team attended the Gartner Security Conference which needed a more visual and automated marketing approach, hence the need for a more streamlined messaging system.

Event Lead Gen Pages

To further prospective leads down the pipeline the GreatHorn team consistently put out events for those on the mailing list to jump into a Zoom call or download a white paper. The design challenge for this was to continue the brand messaging and provided opportunity to experiment with more intriguing visuals to be implemented in online brand assets.

Grid of grayscale wireframe layout explorations for the GreatHorn landing pages

Landing page wireframe explorations

Grid of full-color branded landing page variations for GreatHorn

Landing page color and layout explorations

Analyzing the forms of a GreatHorn owl provided plenty of inspiration, taking the shapes of the shield in the logo and creating feather like patterns for the backgrounds were subtle yet emotive.

The shapes of the shield in the logo and creating feather-like patterns for the backgrounds were subtle yet emotive

Final GreatHorn landing page templates for a webinar sign-up and an ebook download

A look at the final templates for the landing pages