
commercial · 2020
Laurea
Luxury gold as an asset, told through fashion films and design
Role
Director
Production Company
Ruckus Co.
Genre
Luxury & Fashion
Status
Launch Campaign / Completed
About the Project
Laurea launched as a new kind of luxury brand: elegant 24k gold jewelry designed to function like a portfolio investment. Each piece is priced dynamically in line with the value of gold and its weight, allowing customers to track their jewelry's value over time and treat a purchase not as a sunk cost, but as an asset. The brand needed a visual identity that could carry both sides of that promise at once. It had to feel undeniably premium, but it also had to communicate a new logic: transparency, strategy, and long-term value.
To bring that idea to life, we developed a full creative system spanning multiple production modes. The campaign included on-location fashion films built around distinct tones and environments, a high-concept studio shoot with a refined design language, and a robust set of product-focused assets that could live across web, social, and paid placements. The location work gave Laurea scale and emotion, placing the jewelry in lived-in, aspirational moments. The studio work gave it precision and iconography, elevating the pieces into sculptural objects and making the gold feel tactile, luminous, and deliberate.
Because Laurea's model was new, education had to feel as elevated as the lifestyle. We created tutorial and explainer content that translated the platform and purchasing process into something clear and confident, without slipping into tech-demo territory. The goal was for every touchpoint, from fashion film to tutorial, to feel like the same world. The final output wasn't a single campaign. It was a launch library that established Laurea as a luxury house with a point of view, built to scale.
Why This Exists
Most jewelry marketing sells beauty and sentiment while treating value as something vague, private, or implied. Laurea flips that relationship. This project exists to introduce a brand that is willing to say the quiet part out loud: gold has intrinsic value, and the customer should be able to see it. The visual strategy needed to feel emotionally resonant and fashion-forward while also making the investment premise legible in seconds.
Creatively, we built the campaign around four core truths that the imagery could carry without overexplaining: gold as a natural element, gold as luxury, gold as intrinsically valuable, and gold as emotionally valuable when it's passed through time. That framework gave us a way to move between worlds. The same piece of jewelry could be shown as sculptural and iconic in studio, intimate and lived-in on location, and practical and transparent within tutorial content. It allowed the brand to feel holistic, not split between "fashion" and "finance."
Ultimately, the work is about reframing what luxury can mean. Laurea isn't asking customers to choose between beauty and responsibility, indulgence and intelligence, aesthetics and strategy. The campaign exists to make that new category feel real and desirable: mindful extravagance, rooted in something tangible, designed to hold value in more ways than one.





