Norco Brand Refresh
Brand Launch - Revitalizing a Mountain Bike Icon for the Modern Era
Role: Creative Direction / Brand Strategy
Challenge
Modernize the 60-year-old mountain bike brand for premium positioning without losing its heritage.
Approach
Organization-wide rebrand — new visual identity, content + messaging strategy, and clear "why buy" positioning across all touchpoints.
Impact
Repositioned Norco as premium brand with elevated sentiment and strategic foundation for future growth.
Cinematography: Andre Nutini, Liam Mullany
Edit/Motion Design: Zach Rampen
Art Direction: Alejandro Alarcon, Ryan Davis
Photography: Bruno Long, Bill Hawley, Brayden Rastad, Robin O'Neil, Andy Vathis
Copy: Richard Belson
Art: Tyler Keeton Robbins
Range | Ride Beyond
Product Launch Campaign
Role: Creative Direction / Campaign Strategy / Graphic Design
This product launch showcases the new Norco Range by incorporating earth-shattering metaphors connected to the personal pursuit of riding beyond your boundaries and capturing the capabilities of the bike.
The campaign and documentary is a celebration of innovation around a charismatic product that pushes the envelope, and the magic surrounding it.
Ride Beyond: The Norco Range
Director: David Peacock
Rider: Lucas Cruz
Director of Photography: Andre Nutini
AC: Geoff Hewat
Cable Cam Operator: Matt Maddaloni/Sea to Sky Cablecam
Grip: Alexi Godbout
Farmer: Ben Davies
Bike Mechanic: Marisa Harder
Talent Scout: Austin Ross
Colour: Sam Gilling
Sound:Keith White Audio
Music: The Pit (instrumental) by Public Service Broadcasting
Photography: Robin O'Neil, Bill Hawley
Forged: No Other Way Feature
Director of Photography: Andre Nutini
Cinematography: Liam Mullany
Edit/Motion Design: Zach Rampen
Colourist: Sam Gilling
Sound Design: Keith White Audio
Range | Bike of The Year
Product Award Campaign / Event Activation
Role: Creative Direction / Experiential Design / Product Design (Showcase + Brick, not Bike!) / Event Activation / Project Management
Norco Range: Pinkbike 2021 Bike of the Year
Creating a bike this fast took every ounce of innovation and imagination Norco had, and they were pretty stoked that the editors at Pinkbike felt the same way we do about it, so why not celebrate it big?
24k, 400 troy oz. gold brick - one for every internal department and distributor big.
Cinematography: Clay Porter
Rider: Bryn Atkinson
Edit: Clay Porter
FPV Drone: Ross Has A Drone
Drone: Jonathan Chandler
Sound Design: Keith White Audio
Photography: Anthony Smith, Bryn Atkinson, Bill Hawley
Gold Brick: Warren and Wayne Wood Co.
Bike Showcase: Carson's Customs
2020 Olympics Colorway | XC MTB
Product Creative
Role: Ideation / Creative Direction
TOKYO 2020 CYCLING MOUNTAIN BIKE MEN'S & WOMEN’S CROSS-COUNTRY
With The Games fast approaching and a final decision from Cycling Canada landing two Norco athletes spots in Toyko; the creative team at Norco was under the gun to come up with a novel concept for the coveted Olympic frame colorway.
“How about we literally press maple leaves laced in gold on both models of the Revolver?”
Spinning Maple Into Gold
Edit/Photo: Nick Iwanyshyn
Paint: Velocolour
Art Direction: Alejandro Alarcon
Graphic Design: Sam Gauthier
Copy: Richard Belson
Content: Evan Poitras