The problem
Motorola is Pantone’s official smartphone partner, the only phone brand in the room when the Color of the Year is announced. That is also the trap. The same morning, Cloud Dancer lands on sneakers, lipsticks and packaging at once, and a phone in the new shade becomes one more object on a long list.
The position we took
Every brand gets the colour the same morning. Only one phone gets to be the object inside it.
What we made
The Lightness of Being turns Cloud Dancer from a shade into a sensation. Two dancers move through a studio of sky and drifting veils, and the phone is the only solid element in the room. Editorial stills, tabletop product shots, looping product films, dance vignettes and a making-of, with the Swarovski charm as an accessory inside the Pantone world. Everything released at the reveal on 4 December 2025.
Status
Motorola’s fourth consecutive year as Pantone’s official smartphone partner.
A colour on a swatch is just a code, and nobody falls in love with a code. We fall for how a colour makes us feel. The feelings we chase most have no weight at all: a breath, a drift, the second before a dancer lands.
Project information
- Brand Campaign
- Technology
- 2025
- Campaign
- OOH
- Digital
- Co-branding
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