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New Balance x Rosalía - Con Altura — Rosalía above New York in the campaign hero.
Rosalía above New York in the campaign hero.

Selected work

05 assets
New Balance x Rosalia - Con Altura — Best companion scene still from the hero-tagged set.
Best companion scene still from the hero-tagged set.
New Balance x Rosalia - Con Altura — Poster/identity language of the campaign.
Poster/identity language of the campaign.
New Balance x Rosalia - Con Altura — Stylized social/story frame with campaign voice.
Stylized social/story frame with campaign voice.
New Balance x Rosalia - Con Altura — Rendered print/OOH proof from the selected PDF.
Rendered print/OOH proof from the selected PDF.
Short motion excerpt from the campaign world.

Project Overview

Athletic key art defaults to the product — lit hard, floating on white. This went the other way: a face in ink wash, a signature scrawled across it, and the shoe nowhere in frame.

The campaign identity is a portrait of Rosalía rendered as ink bleeding into hot orange-red, features reduced to five or six wet marks — a brow, an eye, a mouth — the rest left to the viewer. It reads at a hundred feet and at arm's length, and it reads as music rather than sportswear.

The lockup sets new balance in the brand's lowercase grotesque with Rosalía handwritten straight through it, underlined in one stroke, so the collaboration is a single gesture rather than two logos sharing a corner. Deliverables were built as posters first: 1:1 key art, wheatpaste and kraft-wrap mockups, and a footer that signs the work like a release.

The restraint is the strategy. A campaign that trusts a face and a signature to carry it is a campaign that believes the collaboration is worth something on its own.

Client
New Balance
Year
2025
Role
Creative Director / Platform / Concept / Craft

Agency / Studio

American Haiku

Photographed by

Alex Prager

Team

  • Robert Elswit