Adam R. Cagle
// Campaigns · Copy · Creative Direction

Words that
move
products.

Three brands, three audiences, three registers: guitars on the open road, a rock-and-roll hideaway above the Strip, and a network card for gamers who count milliseconds.
// 01Traveler Guitar·Campaign

The world's most adventurous guitars.

// Their registered trademark · Written by Adam R. Cagle
The Road — Escape Mark III Mahogany
The Road.Escape Mk III · 25 Years
The Body Copy · The Road

Willie couldn't wait to get back on it. Roger was the king of it. And Sheryl found it winding everyday.

Musicians have been traveling the open road since the days when bards heralded fair maidens in taverns of old. For 25 years Traveler Guitar has been making instruments that fit in tiny spaces, play with giant sound, and let you practice, play, or record wherever the road takes you.

Full-Page Print · Sweetwater Co-op
Sonic Bloom — Traveler Guitar Redlands Mini full-page print ad, forest concert
Sonic Bloom.Forest
Hey Jungle Welcome to Me — Traveler Guitar Vaibrant Electric full-page tropical print ad
Hey Jungle, Welcome to Me.Vaibrant
Next Stop Greatness — Traveler Guitar Ultra-Light full-page subway transit print ad
Next Stop, Greatness.Transit
A Force of Nature — Traveler Guitar Vaibrant Teal Burst full-page storm print ad
A Force of Nature.Storm
Flying Solo — Traveler Guitar Ultra-Light full-page cockpit print ad
Flying Solo.Cockpit
Endless Strummer — Traveler Guitar Redlands Mini full-page surf print ad
Endless Strummer.Surf
01Rainforest
Sonic Bloom.
RedlandsConcert
02Tropical
Hey Jungle, Welcome to Me.
VaibrantElectric
03Subway
Next Stop, Greatness.
Ultra-LightElectric
04Tempest
A Force of Nature.
VaibrantTeal Burst
05Cockpit
Flying Solo.
Ultra-Light·
06Surf
Endless Strummer.
RedlandsMini
// 02Sunset Marquis·Brand System

A hideaway with a Grammy on the nightstand.

I The Apex · The Gallery Headline
Yes That Beautiful — Sunset Marquis hotel print ad, Magritte-style gallery framing, West Hollywood
Yes, that beautiful.
The Headline · Gallery

Yes, that beautiful.

Two words and a yes. The launch ad for the renovated suites: a hotel room framed like a museum painting, witnessed by a man in a bowler hat. Room tours, annotated by Magritte.

Full-Page Print
II The Range · Print Campaigns
Legendary Nights Begin at Sunset — Sunset Marquis property tagline print ad, rock star double exposure
Legendary Nights Begin at Sunset.
The Tagline · Rock & Roll

Legendary nights begin at Sunset.

Ten years on the door, the print, the email, the sign-off. The line the rest of the brand ladders up to.

Full-Page Print
Sure it's California but it's the southern part — Sunset Marquis ACM Awards Guide full-page print ad
Sure, it's California.ACM
The Wink · ACM Awards Guide

Sure, it's California, but it's the southern part.

The American Country Music Awards Guide Ad. A rock-and-roll hotel walking into a country bar and fitting right in.

Full-Page Print · ACM
Unique Even by Hollywood Standards — Sunset Marquis GDS one-sheet travel agent sell sheet
Unique. Even by Hollywood standards.GDS One-Sheet
The B2B · GDS One-Sheet

Unique. Even by Hollywood standards.®

The format where most hotel copy goes to die under bullet points. The headline carries the brand. The body keeps Cavatina, the Spa, and Bar 1200 sounding like themselves, not like amenities on a checklist.

Trade Sell Sheet
III The Architecture · Sub-Brands
// Restaurant

Cavatina

Beauty in simplicity.

The restaurant in its own register. Chef Luis Morales. Garden-set. Californian with an Italian twist. Menus, web, in-room dining, and private events written so the food sounds the way it tastes. The restaurant speaks for itself, not through the hotel's mouth.

Sub-Brand
// Concert Series

LIVE@SunsetMarquis

For those about to rock, we put you on stage.

Named, branded, and written from the first show. A concert series staged at the hotel. Year one headlined Gary Clark Jr., the season before he won his first Grammys.

Sub-Brand
IV The Brand at Work · Live Site
SunsetMarquis.com — live website brand system by Adam R. Cagle, Agency689, West Hollywood
Visit sunsetmarquis.com →The Brand Operating in the Wild
// 03Killer NIC·Triptych

Kill faster.

Killer NIC K1 Warrior — full-page gaming print ad for Bigfoot Networks, gamer character concept
Warrior.K1
Killer NIC K1 Mage — full-page gaming print ad for Bigfoot Networks, mage character concept
Mage.K1
Killer NIC K1 Sniper — full-page gaming print ad for Bigfoot Networks, sniper character concept
Sniper.K1
Warrior01
Charge
Overpower
Slam
Rend
Execute
Cleave
Kill Faster.
Mage02
Scorch
Frost
Sheep
Ignite
Pyroblast
Incinerate
Kill Faster.
Sniper03
Spot
Follow
Target
Crouch
Zoom
Aim
Kill Faster.
The Body Line

The only network interface cards built for online gamers. Less lag. More frag.

Full-Page Print · Enthusiast Press · $159
// 04Hotel Figueroa·Brand Book · DTLA Relaunch

To relate to artists, we must be artists.

Hotel Figueroa Brand Book cover — 61-page brand identity system by Agency689, DTLA luxury hotel relaunch
Open Brand Book →61 Pages · Agency689 · DTLA
The Brand Thesis · Platform

To relate to artists, we must be artists.

The single sentence that holds the entire brand. Written as the mission foundation for a 1925 DTLA hotel reopening as a home for the creative class. Six brand pillars, a complete voice guide, and sixty-one pages of identity work flow from this one line.

Brand Platform · Agency689

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