Dan Burdeski

Art Direction & Design

Maroon Shirt® campaign

Roles:
Art Director, Production artist, Photographer

The Challenge

  • Create an original animated holiday card that can be sent to clients
  • Ability to personalized with their client's lawyer's photo
  • Template needed to be easy enough for my client to create unique videos for over 40 different professional
Maroon Shirt sample

The shirt design

The Maroon Shirt® is the official members-only shirt from the Alumni Association. The limited-edition student-designed shirt is released each fall with a new design and vaulted before the end of the year. In 2017, a U of M alumna approached the UMAA with her idea: create a fun, unique shirt only for members to kick off the school year that raises money to ignite student success

The Marketing

I wanted to portray the Maroon Shirt® as a shirt for everyone.

In support of the shirt, we employed additional marketing efforts to raise awareness around campus:

coaster and laptop sticker
maroon shirt table top banner

The Digital Marketing

Due to the ability to rapidly deploy content through digital channels, it was the perfect opportunity to portray the Maroon shirt® in a multitude of different life stages.

coaster and laptop sticker
final header

The Final Product

What was accomplished?

The campaign was a huge success, exceeding in all membership level goals as well as current member shirt sales.

This campaign was recognized in GDUSA magazine.

image of a folder maroon shirt
Dan Burdeski