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Website and Banner design

Sell a laptop on what it sounds like

The K55VD’s pitch was its audio, so the key visual makes the sound visible: the laptop wears a pair of headphones, a speaker stands beside it, and the screen shows nothing but the word BEAT in a dot-matrix glow. Everything is warm gold on brown, away from the blue every other laptop ad was using. Two web banner crops and the Instagram post all run the same picture, for Maadiran, the brand’s distributor.

Client
Maadiran
Brand
ASUS
Role
Graphic & Visual Designer
Scope
Key visual, web banners, Instagram post
Two crops of the same web banner shown in browser windows: the ASUS wordmark over text reading ASUS notebooks with Maadiran warranty, the model name K55VD, two selling points, and a laptop wearing headphones beside a speaker, its screen glowing with the word BEAT The same key visual as an Instagram post on the Maadiran account, held on a phone above a marble desk with a coffee and a plant, the caption below it
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Project overview

Maadiran distributes ASUS notebooks alongside its EPSON range. This is the social and web creative for the K55VD, a model sold on its audio, produced as a key visual that could be cropped for a web banner and posted to Instagram without being redrawn.

The idea

A laptop photographed on its own says very little about how it sounds. So the product is staged rather than shown: headphones hooked over the open lid, a speaker set beside it, and the screen carrying a single word, BEAT, lit like a dot-matrix display. The claim is made by the picture before the copy repeats it.

Colour and type

The scene is lit warm, gold and brown against a dark ground, which sets it apart from the blue and silver that most laptop advertising defaults to. The headline and the two selling points, remarkable sound and a design of its own, are set right to left around the product, with the ASUS wordmark and the Maadiran warranty line kept together at the top.

Formats

The same artwork is built to survive cropping. A wide crop works as a web banner, a squarer one as the Instagram post, and the composition keeps the laptop, the headphones and the headline inside both frames. The phone mockup shown here is a presentation piece; the engagement figures in it are placeholder, not results.

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