A brand reading

Skittles.

Jester The non-sequitur as voice.

TBWA Chiat/Day’s Skittles work treats the brand as a license to make work that wouldn’t fit anywhere else: the singing rabbit, the touch-everything-becomes-Skittles man, the petting zoo. Brand-as-permission-slip for absurdity.

The five-layer reading.

01 Motivation
Jester. The non-sequitur as voice.
02 Mind
ENTP
03 Temperament
Sanguine
04 Persuasion
Pathos
05 Expression
Expressed

Surreal, unbothered, stylistically loose. The brand’s argument is that it isn’t making one.

Famous spot

Touch the Rainbow, 2007