McDonalds

Category

Animated Branded Content

Client

McDonalds

Year

2025

2025

Featured

Complex Ideas

Animation

Editorial

Using a humorous tactile paper world to turn brand myths into a playful, editorially credible story.

Credits

Agency

Guardian Labs

Director

Dan Symons

Animators

Dan Symons and Christian Taylor

Info.

McDonald’s and Guardian Labs needed a way to talk about brand trust without relying on the usual product-led advertising language. Wild helped shape the script, choose the myths and build a humorous paper-based visual world around the idea of peeling things back to reveal the truth.

The result turned a potentially defensive subject into something lighter, clearer and easier to engage with — a strong example of how visual metaphor can make reputation stories more watchable.