FreeWheel Beach at Cannes Lions, 2026
A reimagined Cannes Lions experience designed to create more meaningful conversations between FreeWheel, its clients, and industry leaders.
A reimagined Cannes Lions experience designed to create more meaningful conversations between FreeWheel, its clients, and industry leaders.
Creative Direction, Brand Design, Environmental Design, Digital Experience, and Social Design
For 2026, FreeWheel reimagined its Cannes Lions presence around a more curated, invitation-based experience. The goal was to create an environment that encouraged deeper conversations, stronger client engagement, and more intentional connections throughout the week.
The challenge was rethinking the space and every supporting touchpoint to reflect this new direction. Environmental graphics, digital experiences, event communications, and campaign assets all needed to work together as a cohesive brand experience.
Developed a creative system that unified environmental graphics, digital experiences, thought leadership, and event communications under a single visual language.
Focused on creating an experience that felt intentional, premium, and distinctly FreeWheel while remaining flexible enough to support evolving content and programming throughout the event.
1,639
attendees across the week
229
client meetings scheduled
77K
social engagements
A large-scale live event supported by a high volume of creative, designed to feel cohesive across every touchpoint from stage to activation.
Head of Design, leading visual direction across event creative, stage content, and supporting materials. Oversaw design execution across a high volume of deliverables and partnered closely with marketing, events, and cross-functional teams to ensure consistency across the full experience.
IAB NewFronts is one of the most important moments of the year for Comcast Advertising. A live show supported by a wide range of creative across presentations, event branding, activation, and digital touchpoints.
The challenge was managing a large volume of work while maintaining a consistent visual language across everything being produced, often on tight timelines and with multiple stakeholders involved.
The work was treated as a connected system rather than individual deliverables. Clear visual structure, consistent design patterns, and shared assets helped ensure everything stayed aligned across teams and outputs.
Close collaboration with marketing, events, and external partners allowed the work to move quickly without losing cohesion, even as scope and timelines evolved.
The TV Makes Memories report was designed to launch in parallel with NewFronts, extending the narrative beyond the stage.
The design aligned with the event’s visual system, ensuring a seamless connection between the live experience and the supporting thought leadership.
+32%
Direct and Organic search traffic to ComcastAdvertising.com
+26%
Organic search impressions
+13%
Traffic on attribution-related queries
AdAge, Adweek, Deadline, Marketing Brew, and more.
A flagship brand experience bringing FreeWheel’s platform, partners, and perspective to life at Cannes Lions.
Creative Direction, brand design, environmental, digital, and social design
FreeWheel Beach is a multi-day experience designed to host clients, partners, and industry conversations during Cannes Lions.
With multiple stakeholders and content tracks, the challenge was creating a cohesive environment that felt intentional, not fragmented.
Built a flexible visual system that scaled across physical space, digital touchpoints, and real-time content.
Focused on clarity, consistency, and creating a unified experience across every moment — from stage design to social.
3,291
attendees across the week
3,100+
session registrations
+80% YOY
77K
social engagements


