Full case study
Base / Coinbase
Regional Creative Direction Across Southern & East Africa
Lead Creative Designer
One system.Multiple creative expressions.
Product, campaigns, activations, community, builders and motion — designed to work as one regional creative ecosystem.







01 / 06 · Campaign
Trading Is Better Together
One major campaign focused on turning product and referral mechanics into a more human proposition.
Instead of communicating trading only as a technical product feature, the campaign centred on participation, connection and shared value.
I worked with the creative team across concept development, visual direction, campaign assets and motion execution, creating a flexible campaign language that could move between product communication, social content and wider regional storytelling.
Campaign
Individual product behaviour became a shared story.Trading Is Better Together.
02 / 06 · Product storytelling
Making product features easier to understand and easier to remember.
Base App communication became another important layer of the regional system.
The creative work translated product functionality into concise, visually engaging stories around wallet, trading, feed, mini apps, referral behaviour and ecosystem products.
Rather than treating the interface as a technical object, the campaign creative placed the product inside human, cultural and lifestyle contexts.
Product storytelling
Product communication became campaign storytelling —not just interface explanation.
03 / 06 · Regional activations
From screen to city.
The creative system also had to work physically.
For a regional activation rollout spanning five locations, I helped develop and direct the visual execution across campaign materials, promotional assets, printed collateral and event environments.
The work included coordinating visual requirements for each activation and helping ensure that photography, video and physical campaign assets felt part of the same Base system.
I also contributed to the concept and production direction of supporting campaign film content, including location-based and drone footage used to establish recognisable environments.
Activation scope
- Campus activations
- Roll-up banners
- Printed materials
- Promotional collateral
- Photography direction
- Videography direction
- Highlight content
- Creator / community participation
04 / 06 · Community + builders
Designing for more than users.
Base’s regional ecosystem also included builders, founders, creators and communities.
The role of design here was different from a consumer campaign.
The visual system needed to communicate opportunity, credibility and participation while remaining flexible enough to support application periods, program updates, events, speakers, winners and community storytelling.
Initiatives
- BFF
- Base Batches 002
- Hackathons
- Builder programs
- Community events
- Founder-focused initiatives
Community + builders
One brand system had to work for product growth,community participation and builder ecosystems.
05 / 06 · Motion + AI-assisted production
Extending art direction into motion and AI-assisted production.
Motion was not treated as a separate add-on.
For selected campaign work, I developed concepts and helped direct cinematic and AI-assisted video production, combining campaign thinking, visual direction, location imagery and post-production into short-form branded stories.
02Referral campaign filmReferral campaign · product storytelling + campaign motion
Selected AI-assisted films
Process
- Concept development
- Visual direction
- Location references and footage
- Drone imagery
- AI-assisted visual generation
- Motion design
- Editing and review
Motion + AI-assisted production
AI was part of the production workflow —not the creative idea itself.
06 / 06 · The system
One ecosystem. Multiple creative expressions.
The strength of the project was not any single visual.
It was the ability to create a system that could stretch across product, campaign, community, physical activation and motion while still feeling like one Base experience.
- Product
- Base App · Mamo · Referral
- Campaigns
- Trading Is Better Together
- Activations
- Regional + campus rollout
- Community
- Creators · Ambassadors · Events
- Builders
- BFF · Base Batches · Hackathons
- Motion
- Campaign films · AI-assisted production
Scope & contribution
- Southern + East Africa
- Regional creative responsibility
- 5 locations
- Activation rollout
- Multi-disciplinary
- Design · Photography · Video · Community
- Product + Community + Builders
- Connected creative ecosystem
What I brought to the work
- Creative direction
- Systems thinking
- Campaign development
- Regional consistency
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Motion direction
- AI-assisted workflows
From campaign ideato regional rollout.
The Base work reflects how I like to approach creative problems: not as isolated deliverables, but as connected systems.
Across product storytelling, regional campaigns, activations, community programs, builder initiatives and motion, the goal remained the same:
In short
Make complex ideas clearer,more humanand easier to act on.
Tobi FadareLead Creative DesignerBrand Systems · Campaigns · Motion · AI-assisted Creative Direction








