Reframing the impossible as inevitable.

The Ellen MacArthur Foundation needed a campaign to unify their global plastics agenda — one that could work across social, digital, and broadcast, build their brand distinctiveness, and galvanise industry leaders to act around a shared 2030 agenda.

What I did

Working as part of the internal content and delivery team, I helped set the creative vision — bridging comms, editorial, and creative to build a unified campaign framework from the inside out.

This one came to life fast — but it felt like a proper process from start to finish. We got the brief, played with it, pushed it. Discovery, playback, iteration, build again. Every stage brought the right people in at the right moment. The energy was right even when the timing was hard — we'd just come through a restructure, and this was my first major piece of work moving from digital into brand and creative thinking.

The central concept — Impossible, Possible, Inevitable — reframed the plastics challenge not as an insurmountable problem but as a breakthrough moment waiting to happen. Anchored in the story of Roger Bannister breaking the four-minute mile, it gave the Foundation a campaign with a clear emotional spine and a visual system that could carry across every touchpoint.

What changed

A campaign with a clear emotional spine, a visual system that works across every touchpoint, and a rallying call for industry leaders to join a shared agenda. It set the tone for how our team would work on big campaigns going forward. The outputs were highly regarded and well received across the organisation.