Vega Awards Gold Winner Winner

2025

Blazin' Vodka Launch

Entrant Company

WineGlass Marketing

Category

Social Media (Campaign) - Best Use of Emerging Technology

Client's Name

Blazin' Vodka

Country / Region

United States

BLAZIN’ was built to disrupt the vodka category with a surreal, neon-fueled attitude that blurs the line between nightlife and digital art. From its 100-proof kick to its UV-reactive bottle, everything about BLAZIN’ is designed to glow under blacklight and inside social feeds. The challenge was to create a world bold enough to hold that energy—without slipping into cliché sci-fi or comic-book territory. Our team used AI tools as creative collaborators, not shortcuts. We trained models to generate a universe that felt “slightly artificial” by design—a heightened, electric nightlife where the glow, vapor, and rhythm of the night itself became characters. The aesthetic intentionally leans into imperfection: hyperreal lighting, dreamlike streets, and faces that look almost human but not quite. That tension between real and unreal became the core of the campaign’s visual language. The result is a digital ecosystem that pulses across web, social, and motion assets with impossible colors and textures—an intentional reflection of BLAZIN’s product experience: sensory, vivid, and a little unhinged. Every AI-generated image was refined through human direction, compositing, and color work to maintain cohesion while preserving the unpredictable, electric quality that machine generation brings. The campaign centers around four brand pillars—Glow, Flavor Only, Strength, and Vibe—each expressed through AI-assisted visuals that explore energy, motion, and connection in this surreal nightlife world. “The Glow Lab,” a fictional R&D space, anchors the storytelling, showing BLAZIN’ as a brand that experiments in light, flavor, and imagination. By embracing AI not as a gimmick but as a medium, BLAZIN’ turned technology into texture—using it to amplify the surreal, seductive tension between human creativity and synthetic possibility. The work doesn’t imitate reality; it reimagines it in ultraviolet.

Credits

Creative Director | WineGlass Marketing
Susan DeMatei
2025
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