Engineer Approved

DW Drums: Engineer Approved

DW built a kit that refuses to choose: a real acoustic set that's also a full electronic rig. So every layout tears down the middle and lets both sides share the page.

creative direction · design
Two worldsOne kit · acoustic + electric
HybridA real DW kit that plugs in

Every spread tears down the middle

\ The idea

Two worlds, one seam.

DW built a kit that refuses to choose: a real acoustic set that's also a full electronic rig. They brought me in to answer one question, how do you show a product that lives in two worlds? My answer was to stop choosing. Every layout tears down the middle and lets both sides share the page.

DWe is a hybrid: a real DW kit that plugs in. So the campaign never picked a side. Every spread rips down the middle and puts two opposites face to face, the tear itself doing the talking.

DWe spread: Plug In / Rock Out, the kit and the R-TAP amp split by a zipper seam ✳ Plug In / Rock Out · DWe · DW Drums
\ The role

Strategy first, then designed it out.

DW came to me with a product that was genuinely hard to explain: one kit that's both a real acoustic set and a full electronic rig. I led it as Creative Director and designer, with Art of Visuals for DW Drums. The work was strategy before craft, how do you make someone feel "two worlds, one kit" before they read a single word? I landed on the split: tear every layout down the middle, put the two sides face to face, and let the seam carry the idea. Then I designed it out, spread by spread.

The spreads · the campaign, uncropped 11 spreads · click to enlarge

"Every layout tears down the middle and lets both sides share the page."

The device that carried the campaign

Crew manifest MC-2022-04
DW Drums · DWe · Two worlds, one seam
Client DW Drums
Agency Art of Visuals
Creative direction + design DJ Ramirez
Filed MMXXIII · Crew of 03 DJ RamirezArchive