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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.

Base southern africa campaign visual: “Trading alone? Better Together”CampaignTrading Is Better Together
Base app campaign visual: wallet, trading, feed and mini appsProductBase App
Mamo on Base App campaign visual: “Your money. Working while you sleep.”PartnerMamo
Base east africa roll-up banner: “Base is for everyone”ActivationRegional rollout
Hands wearing Base wristbands brought togetherCommunityCreators & events
Community members holding Base “Post. Own. Earn.” cards at an eventBuildersBase Batches · Hackathons
Post. Own. Earn.Identity
Frame from the Base campaign film: a grid of Southern and East African city shots labelled Durban, Johannesburg and Cape TownMotionCampaign film

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.

  • Base southern africa campaign visual: a man holding a phone beside the headline “Trading alone? Better Together”, with a referral panel reading “Refer a friend on Base App. You earn 20%. They save 10%.”
  • A hand holding a phone showing the Base app listing on the App Store
  • Two people at a Base event holding “Post. Own. Earn.” campaign cards

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.

  • Base app campaign visual: the glass app tile above the line “wallet + trading + feed + mini apps — one place to use the onchain economy”
  • Mamo on Base App campaign visual: two hands holding a phone and the Base app tile under the headline “Your money. Working while you sleep.”

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
  • Base east africa roll-up banner reading “Base is for everyone — build something you believe in — a better internet starts here — Post. Own. Earn.”
  • Base east africa roll-up banner reading “Bringing the world onchain”
  • Base southern africa roll-up banner reading “’tis the season of earning” with a QR code
  • Base east africa campaign banner on a purple gradient

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
  • Six hands wearing Base wristbands brought together against a blue sky
  • A group at a Base southern africa event holding “I earn on Base” and “I build on Base” cards beside a campaign banner
  • An attendee holding an “I build on Base” card and a phone at a Base event
  • A hand holding an “I earn on Base” card at a Base event
  • Four people holding Base campaign cards at an indoor activation
  • Community members holding Base “Post. Own. Earn.” cards at an event

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