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Creative storytelling of the brand

A creative India’s first student-only advertising festival empowering young creatives.

Guthli AdFest website: a furry golden guthli floating over the blurred GUTHLI wordmark
The work

What it actually looks like.

Showing 7 stills from the build

Desktop
Guthli AdFest website on desktop: golden guthlis circling the line "nurturing and protective"
Guthli AdFest website on desktop: a guthli in flight, "And then one day blooming into a big, shady giant"
Guthli AdFest website on desktop: a sapling growing from the guthli, "And growing first into a young sapling"
Mobile
Guthli AdFest website on a phone: "Small, yet soaked with great potential"
Guthli AdFest website on a phone: a guthli inside an open shell, "Packed with dreams"
Guthli AdFest website on a phone: the festival film and "Why Guthli?"
Guthli AdFest website on a phone: the earth, "Changing the earth"

The constraint

Every great mango starts as a guthli, a humble seed. When the client chose this unusual name for their event, our task was to turn it into a story people instantly understood. The catch: the meaning had to land in the first few seconds, before users scrolled any further.

Sector
Advertising
Size
1-2k attendees per event
What they came for
Website Design & Dev
What we changed One decision

What we changed

Move 1

Creative storytelling

Our answer was to let the seed tell its own story. Through an animated interaction, the guthli sprouts into a tree and then a forest, mirroring how a small idea grows into real-world impact. By the time visitors scroll on, the name already makes sense

What shipped 3D storytelling
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See it working, not just in pictures.

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