A refresh that changes the look without spending the heritage

New look, same standards — the line that lets a legacy brand modernise without asking customers to take a risk.

Client
Dunlop
Industry
Automotive & Mobility
Scope
Brand Campaign
Year
2025

The challenge

Refreshing a heritage brand is a trust problem. Change too little and nothing registers; change too much and decades of accumulated confidence are quietly discarded along with the old artwork.

What we did

  • Organised the campaign around an explicit reassurance — new look, same standards — so the change is announced and defused in the same breath.
  • Made heritage the argument rather than the wallpaper: built on decades of trust, engineered to endure.
  • Set a cinematic black-and-yellow world that reads as premium performance without abandoning the marque's recognisable cues.
  • Kept the promise short enough to travel — taking you beyond — so it works across formats and markets.

Outcome

What changed.

Qualitative where we don't yet have the client's clearance to publish figures. We'd rather say less than overstate.

Positioning

Modernised without discarding heritage

Line

Change announced and reassured at once

Look

Cinematic performance world

Portability

One promise across formats

The full piece

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