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Portfolio 2026

Jamal
Lawrence

Brand Manager. I don't make campaigns. I build the worlds brands live in, and the commercial systems that keep them standing.

Jamal Lawrence
Brand · Creative · Marketing · Product
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02 · Manifesto

What I build, and why.

“I don't make campaigns. I build worlds.”

Every touchpoint is the same story wearing different clothes: product, packaging, content, events, email, site, social, community, retail. The moment one of them breaks character, the whole world feels smaller.

Eight years in brand and marketing. The last four spent running brand, creative and commercial strategy end to end, not one lane of it but all of it, at once.

My work sits between creative direction and commercial thinking. Everything has to look exceptional. Everything has to sell. I've spent the last four years proving those aren't opposites. They're the same job.

I lead teams the way I lead brands: give people real ownership, protect the consistency of the world, and let the culture do the convincing.

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03 · Selected Metrics

Outcomes, not activity.

A working set, updated as each brand's figures are confirmed for public sharing.

18 mo
From first concept to major UK retailer partnership conversations for Childish Energy.
10
Brand worlds built, rebuilt or relaunched in the past 12 months.
8+
Years in brand and marketing, the last 4 of them in senior leadership roles.
£11m+
Retail and ecommerce revenue directly influenced in the last 3 years.
57m
Combined community / social reach across brands led.
1
First wholesale account secured within 4 months of launch, with Lone Culprit × Canvvs on Oxford Street.

A living scoreboard, updated as each brand's figures are confirmed for public sharing.

05 · Capabilities

The work flow.

Most people can do one or two of these well. The advantage is all these touch points handled within one team.

01
Brand Strategy
Positioning, architecture and building whole worlds, from zero or from a rebrand brief.
02
Creative Direction
Setting and holding the visual and tonal standard across every touchpoint.
03
Marketing
Channel strategy, paid and organic, built to convert without diluting the brand.
04
Campaigns
Concept to shoot to rollout: one connected idea, end to end.
05
Production
Casting, shoot production, set build, retail activation, all on the ground.
06
Launch Strategy
Turning a release date into a moment people plan around.
07
Content
Editorial, social and email that reads like one voice, not three teams.
08
Community
Building audiences that stay once the campaign budget stops.
09
Leadership
Running the teams, agencies and founders that make all of the above real.
Superdry x Neymar Jr, GQ StyleChildish Collection, Nostalgia Open golf activationLone Culprit, Off Licence dropLone Culprit, Off Licence dropLone Culprit, corner shop campaignChildish Collection, studio campaignSuperdry SnowSuperdry SnowLone Culprit, anniversary archiveLone Culprit, pub campaignChildish Collection, pub campaignChildish Collection, Chil-Tec jacket flat laySuperdry, underwear campaignSuperdry, underwear campaignChildish Collection, studio campaignSuperdry x Beabadoobee
06 · Selected Work

Multiple worlds.
One thread.

Organised by what each brand had to prove: that it could earn shelf space, earn culture, or earn both at once. The brands are the evidence, not the headline.

Evidence: Superdry

Making one heritage brand speak three cultural languages without losing its accent.

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Superdry x Neymar Jr
Superdry x Beabadoobee
Superdry Snow
Challenge

Cultural relevance across audiences that don't overlap: Gen Z rediscovery, sport credibility, occasionwear expansion, all without fracturing into three different brands.

Insight

The job was never one campaign. It was a creative system flexible enough to hold Neymar Jr, Beabadoobee and a professional boxer without breaking character.

Creative Direction & Execution

Working alongside senior brand marketers, led creative collaboration on the Beabadoobee campaign (90s grunge × varsity revival for an audience the brand had lost), the Neymar Jr sustainability platform, the Party Collection dress category launch, and grassroots Gen Z activations at Rock En Seine and Strawberries & Cream. Ran campaign strategy, social and paid across TikTok and Meta, event planning and activation on the ground.

Commercial outcome: global social following grew to 930k, up 27% during my time at the brand, with a 60% increase in the under 25 audience and female audience growth from 23% to 36%.
What I personally led: creative concept collaboration · paid & organic social strategy · activation on the ground.
Evidence: Childish Collection

Keeping a calendar that drops every few months from becoming a content treadmill.

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Childish Chil-Tec
Childish Collection, Nostalgia Open golf activation
Childish Collection, pub campaign
Challenge

A collection releasing new product on a relentless cycle needed every drop to add to something, not just fill a content calendar.

Insight

Build a recurring cast: a collection inspired by British pubs, Chil-Tec (the technical outerwear take on winter), Championships, Varsity, Kinda Love and more, so each release expands one continuous universe instead of starting from nothing.

Creative Direction & Execution

Directed concept, casting, art direction, organic and performance marketing and production across more than sixteen seasonal drops spanning horror, technical outerwear, retro sport, campus and 90s film nostalgia. Ran the full production pipeline end to end: concept, casting, shoot, channel rollout, influencer and email marketing, paid social.

Commercial outcome: full collections selling out in under an hour, over 7,000 units, with 100k+ orders and a 56% returning customer rate.
What I personally led: concept direction · art direction · event production · PR · channel marketing · performance marketing.
Evidence: Childish Energy

Turning a streetwear label into an FMCG brand that earns shelf space.

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Childish Energy popup takeover
Childish Energy product on shelf
Childish Energy sold out
Challenge

A clothing brand with no history in food and drink, entering a category owned by giants, with zero existing retail relationships.

Insight

The audience didn't need convincing: they already trusted the attitude. The product just had to look impossible to walk past.

Creative Direction & Execution

Working closely with the senior leadership team, shaped the packaging system and launch identity, then translated it into physical space: popup takeovers inside Birmingham's Mailbox and London Bridge's station archways, built as nostalgic American convenience stores rather than conventional retail popups. Ran store concept, launch strategy, influencer partnership (Jay & Romell of the TGFBro's), channel marketing and paid social.

Commercial outcome: picked up by major UK supermarkets within six months of launch, with £400k in revenue through launch activations.
What I personally led: store concept · launch strategy · creative direction · retail activation.
Evidence: Lone Culprit

Building a brand's mythology one drop at a time.

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Lone Culprit, Off Licence drop
Lone Culprit, Off Licence drop, alternate angle
Lone Culprit, corner shop campaign
Lone Culprit, anniversary archive
Challenge

A new streetwear label with no legacy, launching into a market where legacy is the whole currency.

Insight

The founder's own story was more distinctive than any manufactured concept: corner shops, convenience culture, half remembered childhood objects.

Creative Direction & Execution

Built a running origin series (Da Kiosk in Greece, Expensive Taste, Burnt Toast, The Brown Bag Sale) as the initial campaign drivers, followed by drops every couple of months to keep the growth going, treating each release as a chapter rather than a standalone launch. Led art direction, casting, shoot production, campaign rollout, influencer and email marketing, paid social, and two IRL launch events.

Commercial outcome: first wholesale account secured within four months of launch, with Canvvs × Lone Culprit on Oxford Street, and £500k+ in revenue within the first 18 months.
What I personally led: concept direction · art direction · event production · PR · channel marketing · performance marketing.
07 · Creative Process

How the work actually gets made.

01
Strategy
Understand what the brand actually needs to prove, not what's easiest to make.
02
Idea
One idea, strong enough to hold every touchpoint that follows.
03
Creative
Direct the look, tone and world until it's unmistakable.
04
Production
Cast it, shoot it, build it, on the ground and not just on a deck.
05
Launch
Turn a release date into a moment people show up for.
06
Optimisation
Watch what the market tells you, and move fast on it.
07
Scale
Turn one good drop into a system that repeats.
08 · Leadership

I lead the way I build brands.

With ownership, not oversight.

Teams

I hire for range, not just skill, then get out of the way. The strongest ideas behind every project here came from someone I gave room to, not a brief I wrote alone.

Founders & Agencies

Most of the brands here started as a founder's instinct. My job is to give that instinct a system: brand, creative, production and commercial thinking that agencies and internal teams can both build on without losing the plot.

“Culture isn't a department. It's the reason people stay.”

09 · Closing

Most people can run a campaign.
Fewer can build a world.
I build worlds, and the commercial systems that keep them standing.

Jamal Lawrence
jamallawrence96@gmail.com
07757 215881
Let's build the next one · 09 / 09