The Imperial
OVERIEWLed the end-to-end creative development and launch of The Imperial, and new luxury lifestyle hotel, helping reposition Imperial London Hotels group into a more elevated, experience-led and culturally relevant hospitality space.
Developed a premium lifestyle-driven brand that would appeal to a wide range of audiences while differentiating the property within an increasingly competitive London hospitality market.
The project required balancing commercial objectives both within the current portfolio, whilst elevating this particular property with creative positioning, ensuring the brand experience felt aspirational, contemporary and operationally scalable across digital and physical environments.
Brand Strategy & PositioningCreative Direction & Visual Identity Development: Brand Guidelines & Creative FrameworkArt Direction: Campaigns, Content Production, Photography, VideographyGuest Experience, Storytelling Strategy & ProgrammingCreative Oversight: Digital, Social, PR, Partnerships, & In-Property Touch PointsCreative Direction
& Vision
The creative direction for The Imperial was to find the balance between shifting energy, culture, comfort, design and humanity. Shaped by Bloomsbury’s intellectual and artistic spirit yet interpreted through a contemporary, forward-thinking Modernist lens rather than nostalgist. Less overt luxury and formality rather a quiet confidence delivered with thoughtful details. Textures, light, reflections, sound, art and sensory moments all play an important role in the storytelling making things feel personal, knowing, characterful and culturally connected.
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