SUPERHERO CHEESECAKE

Designers at award-winning Amsterdam studio tell Tom May how they go about creating “unforgettable interactive experiences”

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Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands

Established: 2008 Team size: 34 Expertise: Campaign and experience, product and platforms, innovation

Clients: Heineken, Uber, Puma, Scotch & Soda

Awards: 139

Founded in 2008, Superhero Cheesecake doesn’t just have a brilliant name, it has done some quite brilliant work too. Teaming up with global brands and creative studios across the planet, it’s won more than 130 awards for its projects, which range from experiential websites to AR installations, data visualisations to online games. And through passion, pride and plenty of elbow grease, it continues to dazzle clients and the community.

We chatted to design director Massimo Meijer and senior visual designers Alicia Goodmanson and Joao de Almeida about some of their latest work, how seriously we should take AR, and where the studio is heading in the 2020s.

Your mission statement says you aim to create “unforgettable digital experiences”. But what makes an experience unforgettable and how do you achieve that in practice?

AG: For me, an unforgettable experience is something that surprises me; a little detail I wasn’t expecting. Something simple, yet clever. At Superhero Cheesecake, we try to create moments like this in almost everything we do.

This means every project has a core team working together to find new, innovative ways to delight the user.

Having a strong team from a variety of disciplines allows us to ideate and collaborate, to create something that’s beyond the expected. Bringing our combined skill sets and knowledge together, we’re able to create those ‘unforgettable’ moments.