Troy Howe / Shopper Marketing / Dunlop

Three ranges,
one Dunlop retail story

Brand
Dunlop
Programme
Clothing · KT26 · Rackets
Role
Art Direction & Retail Marketing
Scope
Campaign · POS · Apparel · Equipment
Dunlop Advantage campaign photography — studio shot with tennis balls and brand ribbon device

Overview

I led the retail creative across Dunlop's footprint outside the Australian Open partnership — three ranges, sold three different ways. Dunlop Advantage, an everyday activewear range stocked at Target; KT26, a genuine Australian heritage sneaker relaunched for a contemporary retail audience; and Dunlop Rackets, the point-of-sale and campaign system behind the brand's racquet sports equipment. Each range needed its own retail system, built to still read as one Dunlop.

Dunlop Advantage campaign poster displayed in a retail shopfront window, flanked by mannequins wearing the range

The Dunlop Advantage campaign at retail — window poster and mannequins dressed in the range.

Commercial Objective

Challenge

Three very different Dunlop product ranges — everyday activewear, a heritage sneaker relaunch and racquet sports equipment — each needed to compete in its own retail environment without fragmenting the wider Dunlop brand.

Objective

Build a distinct, retail-ready system for each range — Dunlop Advantage at Target, the KT26 heritage relaunch, and the Dunlop Rackets equipment line — while keeping every execution recognisably Dunlop.

Solution

Developed range-specific campaigns and retail systems: campaign photography and POS for Dunlop Advantage at Target; strategy, moodboard, gondola banner and launch campaign for KT26; and point-of-sale and digital screen content for the Dunlop Rackets CX Series and Precision Series.

Rollout

Rolled out across Target retail windows and POS, in-aisle pull-up banners, posters, social tiles and earned newspaper placement for KT26, plus racquet-sports retail displays including header cards, demo cards and in-store digital screens.

Dunlop Clothing

Dunlop Advantage for Target translated the brand into an accessible, everyday activewear range — designed to feel aspirational on a hanger and completely at home in a mass-market aisle.

Dunlop Advantage for Target — women's tee and visor, studio shot

Retouched product photography for the Dunlop Advantage range at Target.

Dunlop Advantage campaign photography — man and woman in studio, navy and burgundy range

Campaign photography supporting the range launch.

The Dunlop ecommerce website — part of the broader Dunlop Advantage retail experience, from homepage through to product and cart pages.

View the Dunlop Clothing campaign deck (PDF) →

Dunlop KT26

KT26 is a genuine Australian heritage sneaker, relaunched for a contemporary retail audience. It moved from strategy and moodboard through to a finished retail campaign with its own gondola banner, point-of-sale and product launch photography.

Dunlop KT26 — A Classic title card

KT26 — "A Classic."

Dunlop KT26 strategy and moodboard — competitor sneaker advertising reference

Strategy and moodboard work, benchmarking competitor sneaker advertising ahead of the KT26 relaunch.

Dunlop KT26 sneaker — technical feature callout diagram

Technical feature callouts carried through from product development to the retail campaign.

The campaign was built to flex across a pull-up banner for in-aisle retail space, posters, social tiles and earned newspaper placement — one idea, sized for every format it needed to fill.

Dunlop KT26 campaign applied across poster, pull-up banner, social tile and newspaper placement

The KT26 campaign applied across poster, social and earned newspaper placement.

Dunlop Rackets

Beyond apparel and footwear, Dunlop's racquet sports heritage needed its own retail presence — point of sale, in-store display and campaign work for the CX Series racket range and the squash line.

Dunlop CX Series racket point of sale — header cards, demo cards and in-store display stand

Point of sale — header cards, demo cards and a free-standing in-store display stand for the CX Series, powered by Srixon.

Dunlop racket campaign — Journey for Perfection, applied across in-store digital screens and posters

"Journey for Perfection" — the CX Series racket lineup, applied across in-store digital screens and poster takeovers.

Dunlop CX Series brochure spread and PowerGrid technology spec sheet

CX Series brochure spread, paired with the PowerGrid technology spec sheet.

Dunlop squash campaign poster — Hit It, applied across the Precision Series range

"Hit It" squash campaign poster, extended across the Precision Series range.

Outcome

I built one retail story across three ranges — an everyday activewear line for Target, a heritage sneaker relaunch, and the point-of-sale and campaign system behind Dunlop's racquet sports equipment — each given what it needed to earn its place on shelf.

My Role

  • Art direction
  • Retail & POS design
  • Photography & illustration
  • Campaign development
  • Gondola banner & display design

Deliverables

  • Dunlop Clothing range for Target
  • Ecommerce website experience
  • KT26 strategy, moodboard & gondola banner
  • Campaign poster & social tiles
  • Product launch photography
  • Rackets POS & in-store display

Key Learning

Apparel, footwear and equipment all sell differently at retail — the job is giving each its own system while keeping one Dunlop voice.

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