FreeWheel Beach at Cannes Lions, 2026
A reimagined Cannes Lions experience designed to create more meaningful conversations between FreeWheel, its clients, and industry leaders.
Role
Creative Direction, Brand Design, Environmental Design, Digital Experience, and Social Design
Overview
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.
Approach
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.
Impact
1,639
attendees across the week
229
client meetings scheduled