Chris Leigh / Design Director

Design Director specialising in Experiential Design and Event Branding

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YouTube UK on Stage

Tate Modern London, Tanks Event Space

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YouTube Creators for Change

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YouTube Creator Summit, Berlin

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Castrol Ambassador Club

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YouTube Beach at the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity

We designed of a beautifully laid-back beach club, featuring a bespoke YouTube brand aesthetic in keeping with their new graphical direction.

We created series of interactive experiences, demos, Stages for talks and screen content to run across this week long activation.

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PRIDE takeover of YouTube Beach at the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity

For the last night of the YouTube Beach we transformed the beach into a giant PRIDE rainbow, with a huge vinyl graphic wrap and a swap out of all of the signage for a colourful alternative set.

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Heineken Champions League Final 2017

For the Final Party we created hundreds of square meters of illustrated faux cityscape which intersected with on–screen content and allowed the performers to sing from elevated towers above the crowd. All with the backdrop of a real Concorde at aerospacebristol.org

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YouTube Beach 2016

YouTube Beach - a relaxed and inviting beach space dedicated to celebrating Youtube's place in popular culture at the Cannes Lions Festival, It featured demos, lightning talks, meeting spaces, a range of live entertainment & invite only events throughout the week.

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Heineken Trophy Tour

Now into it’s second season, A global tour of the UCL Trophy that uses the power of football fans to turn on-the-ground events into global media stories. We created a comprehensive set of guidelines and assets for each market to be able to activate their own Heineken Trophy encounter and retain brand consistency globally.

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Europe on Stage presented by YouTube 2016

Held at Brussels’s foremost cultural institution BOZAR for the second year in a row. An opportunity for YouTube to showcase itself as a cultural platform in a theoretical venue with bespoke event look and feel new for 2016.

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YouTube Brandcast 2016

Brandcast is a live celebration of YouTube, its creators, its reach and its effectiveness as an advertising platform for brand owners, and media agencies.

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Google Beach 2015 in collaboration with Anthony Burrill

Google Beach - a relaxed and inviting beach space dedicated to celebrating google at the Cannes Lions Festival, It featured demos, lightning talks, meeting spaces, a range of live entertainment & invite only events throughout the week.

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YouTube Brandcast 2015

Brandcast is a live celebration of YouTube, its creators, its reach and its effectiveness as an advertising platform for brand owners, and media agencies.

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Heineken 2015 Rugby World Cup

We designed the Hospitality area for Heineken at Twickenham Stadium. Featuring an overhead coin toss (pictured) and and interactive bottle match planner, which was updated throughout the tournament.

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Google Beach 2014 in collaboration with Anthony Burrill

Google Beach - a relaxed and inviting beach space dedicated to celebrating google at the Cannes Lions Festival, It featured demos, lightning talks, meeting spaces, a range of live entertainment & invite only events throughout the week.

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Castrol Football World Cup 2014

As part of Football World Cup 2014 we designed the guest experience for Castrol/BP guests. This involved a range of environments, collateral, Merchandise and live experiences.

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Twitter Stories

We designed a space within Camden’s Roundhouse during Adweek, to allow Twitter to bring to life the stories of some of it’s most unique and exciting users, brand partners and campaigns.

We worked with the Twitter team to design the look at feel of the show, bringing to life the #TwitterStories speech bubble identity throughout the whole space – from the main stage and screen, to the branded street food stalls serving sliders and burritos, as well as a cocktail bar.