Motor City Guitar

Motor City Guitar is a bit of an institution in suburban Detroit. Many of the city’s long list of musical dignitaries have passed through its doors. One of our producers at Leo Burnett was friends with the owner, so we took a break from car advertising to shoot a few commercials, posters and print executions. For the print, I got to be both the writer and the photographer and captured these images of fellow employees doing their best rockstar impersonations.

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