Led design across identity, visual system, motion, and web.
Tools
Illustrator, Cinema 4D, Photoshop
Overview
Hold, Please is a campaign built around a universal frustration: the indefinite wait on customer service hold. Rather than treating it purely as a pain point, I amplified this issue by asking: what if hold time was an opportunity rather than a dead end?
I built a visual system that includes a tagline, a triadic color scheme, custom type marks, looping audio, and motion that turns the experience of waiting into something almost meditative. The triadic color scheme brings energy and optimism to an issue that's typically associated with dread, and the looping audio mirrors the rhythm of hold music without recreating it.
Web Application
The web experience brings the concept into interaction. The tagline, "Hold, please" is elongated vertically to mimic scrolling through a laggy website.
Logo Development
The logo process started with a question: how do you represent longevity visually? The solution came from the two most iconic symbols of being on hold: the telephone cord and hold music. The final type marks merge both references into a single form, giving a logo a conceptual foundation.