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Case study

Four years, one process, many missions.

RoleDesigner & Creative Director
ClientMilamex — serving mission-focused nonprofits
Year2015–2019
OutputBranding · Web · Video · Strategy

The same process from "How I work" — click a stage to see it run, client after client.

CLIENT ×Neach with an orderTHE SAME PATHunderstand · decide · build · stickOUTPUT ×Nbrand · web · filmfour yearsof it
Many missions, one path — the ×N from my diagram, in practice.
01 · Understand Every client arrived asking for a deliverable. My job was to find the need underneath.
"A WEBSITE"the orderTHE REAL NEEDselling the craftsshipping logisticsproduct photography
The order at the edge, the need at the centre.

At Milamex I was the person in the room when a new organisation came in. I worked like a live project planner: mapping what was said as it was said, connecting the threads, and returning not with a sales pitch but with solutions and next steps.

A typical example: an artisan-craft project asked for "a website". Sitting with them, the real blockers surfaced — their shipping logistics and their product photography. The website alone would have sold nothing. We solved the need, not the order.

02 · Decide The fundraising film that changed direction mid-project — and raised more because of it.
ORIGINAL CUTfull-frame filmneeds changedMOTION GRAPHICSre-scoped · 2 days
Loyal to the need, not the deliverable.

For one nonprofit's fundraising campaign I conceived and shot a commercial on a full-frame DSLR — cinema-grade image, a concrete story of what the organisation does. Mid-project, the client's stakeholders pushed the piece in a different direction: they wanted animation. I had a finished cut I believed in, and a client relationship worth more than my cut.

The key call

"A project's loyalty is to the need, not to the original deliverable. We re-scoped, and in two days I delivered a new approach in motion graphics."

The motion-graphics film helped them raise significant funds. It reached ~15,000 views — their current videos average between 40 and 300 — and years later, their content still borrows its style.

03 · Build Same process, different outputs: brands, websites, films, course series.
ONE PROCESSclient after clientBRANDWEBFILMCOURSE
Same path in, different media out.

The deliverable changed with each mission: full brand identities, websites, explainer videos, a complete video series for an online course, event photography and multi-camera direction as a freelancer in parallel. What never changed was the path each project travelled to get there.

04 · Make it stick Clients left with strategy and next steps — not just files.
DELIVERABLESNEXT STEPSa plan, not filesCLIENT CANRUN IT
Engagements closed with a plan, not a folder.

Every engagement closed with a plan the organisation could execute, not a folder of assets. Inside the office I was also the de-facto technical layer — fixing the network, rigging projectors for live events, setting up a podcast studio — and walking anyone through it, patiently. A technology only counts when its people can run it.

→ Result Output ×N — four years of it.
OUTPUT ×N15,000 viewstheir average: 40–300a style their content still borrows
One number that aged well.

This is what the ×N in my diagram looks like in practice: one repeatable process, many organisations served, deliverables across every medium I touched. A selection:

From the archive

The project in context

Output ×N: brands, posters, film frames and photographs from four years of the same process.

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