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Zhyro Affairs

A streetwear and skate label carried from identity through to activation. The marks and the mascot were drawn, ZHYRO PAPER was published as a printed magazine, the campaign was shot and cut for the feed, paid creative was produced as a set, and the brand was put in front of people at pop-ups in Amsterdam and Paris.

Sector

Streetwear & skate culture

Role

Client engagement — brand, content, paid and activations

Year

2025 — Present

Zhyro AffairsFinal pull — all four plates
§02.1

The four plates

A press builds an image one plate at a time. None of them makes the picture alone. These four were pulled by the same person.

Plate 01 · K

Brand & creative

The identity first, then everywhere it had to hold: the ZHYRO wordmark and its oval lockup, a spiked mascot drawn out into a whole cast of poses, and ZHYRO PAPER — a printed magazine with its own covers, spreads and activity pages. The brand book is what keeps the system consistent once other hands touch it.

Identity6 items

The ZHYRO wordmark
The oval lockup
ZHYRO PAPER, the magazine masthead
The wordmark applied to a chequerboard deck
Mascot reel cut for the feed
Mascot animation test

Mascot9 items

Mascot design: the spiked character, standing
Mascot design: side view
Mascot design: skating pose
Mascot design: on a BMX
Mascot design: astronaut variant
Mascot design: with backpack
Mascot design: crying expression
The mascot printed on a shipping crate
The mascot built as an in-store display

ZHYRO PAPER5 items

ZHYRO PAPER, cover
ZHYRO PAPER, outerwear spread
ZHYRO PAPER, activity pages with maze and mascot
ZHYRO PAPER, camouflage spread
ZHYRO PAPER, second cover

Art-direction reference11 items

Art-direction reference, gathered for the magazine — not this engagement's work
Art-direction reference, gathered for the magazine — not this engagement's work
Art-direction reference, gathered for the magazine — not this engagement's work
Art-direction reference, gathered for the magazine — not this engagement's work
Art-direction reference, gathered for the magazine — not this engagement's work
Art-direction reference, gathered for the magazine — not this engagement's work
Art-direction reference, gathered for the magazine — not this engagement's work
Art-direction reference, gathered for the magazine — not this engagement's work
Art-direction reference, gathered for the magazine — not this engagement's work
Art-direction reference, gathered for the magazine — not this engagement's work
Art-direction reference, gathered for the magazine — not this engagement's work

Brand book1 items

Plate 02 · C

Content & influencer

The campaign shoot and everything that ran from it. Night exteriors and lit setups produced the hero frames; the same wardrobe was then cut into organic posts, handed to creators, and worn in collaborations with influencers and Dutch public figures.

Campaign shoot4 items

Campaign shoot: skater lit against black
Campaign shoot: bench and street light at night
Campaign shoot: figure against a lit fence
Campaign shoot: group outside a storefront

Organic content4 items

Organic post: detail at the car door
Organic post: full look at a garage door
Organic post: full look in a doorway
Organic post: board carried on the beach

Film3 items

Organic cut, one
Organic cut, two
Organic cut, three

Creator posts7 items

Creator post: photographed mid-shot
Creator post: on a terrace
Creator post: in a wardrobe room
Creator post: pair against a yellow wall
Creator post: at a shop window
Creator post: on steps
Creator post: beside a telephone box

Collaborations with well-known Dutch personalities9 items

Collaboration: performance on stage
Collaboration: night portrait
Collaboration: loading out at a van
Collaboration: pair in a shop
Collaboration: interior portrait
Collaboration: seated pair
Collaboration: studio portrait
Collaboration: product held to camera
Collaboration: chain and product detail

Moodboard1 items

Plate 03 · M

Paid advertising & growth

Feed creative built specifically for paid rather than lifted from the campaign: product flatlays, creator-led cuts, and outfit collages, produced as one set so a single campaign could run across formats without a second shoot. Campaigns were planned, built and managed across Google Ads, Meta Ads for Facebook and Instagram, and TikTok Ads. Email ran alongside them: campaigns and automated flows created and managed on the same calendar. Figures and account detail in the platform screens are permanently obscured.

Advertising content12 items

Paid creative: product flatlay, one
Paid creative: product flatlay, two
Paid creative: product flatlay, three
Paid creative: product flatlay, four
Paid creative: creator-led feed ad, one
Paid creative: creator-led feed ad, two
Paid creative: creator-led feed ad, three
Paid creative: creator-led feed ad, four
Paid creative: creator-led feed ad, five
Paid creative: creator-led feed ad, six
Paid creative: outfit collage, one
Paid creative: outfit collage, two

Campaigns on Google Ads, Meta Ads (Facebook & Instagram) and TikTok Ads2 items

Meta Ads Manager, campaign viewObscured
TikTok Ads Manager, delivery over timeObscured
Plate 04 · Y

Pop-ups & activations

The brand off the screen. ZHYRO Playroom pop-ups in Amsterdam and on rue Saint-Martin in Paris, a World Cup watch party, the posters that pulled people in, and the queues that turned up for them.

Posters3 items

ZHYRO Playroom pop-up poster, Amsterdam
ZHYRO Playroom pop-up poster, Paris
World Cup watch party poster

Pop-ups12 items

Pop-up storefront
Pop-up interior
Pop-up counter
Visitors inside the pop-up
Visitor in front of the mascot wall
Visitors outside the pop-up
Pair leaving with pop-up bags
Pair on the street with pop-up bags
The queue down the street
Photographers at the opening
DJ set at the pop-up
Shipping crates in the space

Film1 items

Pop-up cut for the feed

Activation deck1 items

§02.2

All four, registered

The finished work again, now with every plate accounted for. No handoff between the person who planned it and the person who made it.

Zhyro Affairs

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