Marco Cortes

Art Director, Designer, Musician and Vintage Collector. I keep this blog with post of things that I'm into, projects that for whatever reason never made it to my portfolio and projects that unfortunately never saw the light. www.markocortes.com

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#vintage #tile #animation

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Getting this done.

#BewareArtDirectionInProgress

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Giving some direction to these young fellas for one of our shoots. #BewareArtDirectionInProgress

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Subaru Impreza 2015 photo shoot.

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Photo shoot with Samurai Cowboy in downtown LA

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Photography art directed for Subaru.

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Red Bull Flugtag "We Want You To Break the Record" campaign. 

For the National Red Bull Flugtag in 2013, we decided to challenge the entire country to bring the Flugtag world record to the US. What better way to motivate a nation than by asking them to bring home the pride. We created a campaign that united the entire nation in one amazing day of flying human powered crafts. This is what it looked like.

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Subaru WRX 2015 beauty major image from the photo shoot done a few months ago.

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There was only one way to introduce Ashley Fiolek to the World of Red Bull. We created a digital camping using only takeover banners where we showcased what she's known for: being a bad ass. 

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Red Bull Soapbox is one of the funniest and most outrageous Red Bull events ever. It's all about creativity and ingenuity with just a touch of crazy. Using the traditional Red Bull cartoon style I created fun and engaging digital banners to promote the event.

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RED BULL COLD RUSH Digital Banner

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RED BULL COLD RUSH Digital Banner

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RED BULL COLD RUSH DIGITAL CAMPAIGN

Red Bull Cold rush is one of the most breathtaking Red Bull events ever. It’s the kind of event where you have to see to believe. So, here we showed what the event is all about and let you decide whether or not something is totally bad ass.

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Red Bull Ultimate Challenge

We wanted to connect people with Red Bull Athletes on a personal level, so we created The Ultimate Challenge campaign where Red Bull fans could submit videos, show their best moves and get selected by the athletes themselves to spend the day hanging out and doing what they love doing. Different challenges were created according to the athletes' different skills so we could connect on a personal level with the biggest variety of people possible.

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Red Bull TwitterVerse

Harnessing our massive social following, Red Bull involves hundreds of thousands in the first head-to-head Twitter competition. You and an opponent are given the same hashtag, which you use to compose the fastest, smartest tweet possible. Winner lives to tweet again until two scribes remain. The championship live-streams in the literary capital of the world: Times Square. A competition of speed and wit, this is a written battle only Red Bull could pull off.

Two writers face-off live incorporating the hashtag into their posts. The quickest, sharpest Tweet wins.

The finals are live-streamed on massive digital boards in Times Square.

While awareness spreads endemically through our huge social media channels, we’ll back it up with a digital campaign to boot.

Tongue-in-cheek “training centers” are set up at coffee shops.

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Red Bull Night Rivals

Red Bull has become a synonymous with throwing unprecedented parties and fueling late nights at the ultimate bars and clubs.

So when they asked us to engage nightlife consumers, we set out to find those who actually have a career from being "all-nighters." 

Red bull night Rivals is a competition to see which neighborhood hits the city the hardest and stays out the latest.

We divide cities into neighborhoods using zip codes and aggregate #imanightrival check-ins at bars and clubs between 10:00PM – 3:00AM The neighborhood with the most check-ins hosts the Rivalry Rave, an after-hours party till sunrise with A-list performances.

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I wanted to create a poster for one of the extreme sport Red Bull events so I took a shot at it and this is what came out.