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Rasmus Wangelin
Spotify – Global campaigns with local nuance (+ the story of Spotify Wrapped)
Rasmus Wangelin, Spotify's Global Head of Brand Design, joins Ross in Episode #52.
In his role at Spotify, Rasmus leads a team of designers, art directors, and design directors to spearhead Spotify’s brand and marketing design initiatives globally. Since joining in 2016, the Spotify in-house team has been recognized as “In-house agency of the year” 4 times — 18’(Ad-Age) & 19’ 20’ 21’(ADC). His work has been globally recognized and awarded by Cannes Lions, One Show, Art Directors Club, D&AD, and more.
Ross and Rasmus discuss the continued success of Wrapped, how Spotify delivers nuanced campaigns at scale, and how they've avoided falling into the product-first trap to balance both brand and product needs.
Highlights
I think Wrapped is a magical project because it's one of the only marketing projects where you have millions of people sharing their own experience of the year through the share card
Start with guiding principles – What does your brand stand for? What are you trying to do? How does that come to life?
That's part of the magic of Wrapped – you release it to the world and then it just kind of takes its own life
We have this lens where we don't really talk about Spotify. We don't say ‘we're great, we have millions of songs’. We tell stories, and the majority of the stories we tell are through the lens of what's happening
The brand is always, in one way or another, echoing the sentiment of the company and its founders
Simple, graphic, colorful became three fundamentally important words that we could apply to all of the design work we were doing
More about Rasmus Wangelin
Originally from Sweden, Rasmus is a New York-based designer & director currently working as Global Head of Brand Design at Spotify. In his role at Spotify, Rasmus leads a team of designers, art directors, and design directors to spearhead Spotify’s brand and marketing design initiatives globally. Since joining in 2016, the Spotify in-house team has been recognized as “In-house agency of the year” 4 times — 18’(Ad-Age) & 19’ 20’ 21’(ADC).
Prior to Spotify Rasmus spent 8 years at R/GA leading design teams across clients like Nike, Samsung, and Google.
His work has been globally recognized and awarded by Cannes Lions, One Show, Art Directors Club, D&AD, and more. Rasmus has taught classes at Hyper-Island, School of Visual Arts, Columbia University and was a design jury for 2018 The One Show.
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