Johnathan V. Regnier
Work
Profile
Design System
Scaling creative at Amazon meant rethinking how internal teams and agency partners actually work together.
Eight international markets, 800K+ employees, and a growing portfolio of programs were all designing from scratch every time.
Keynote
A global employee event landing in Munich needed to honor the host city without drifting into postcard cliches.
A Live Music theme had to carry a dense, multi-segment global broadcast without losing warmth or clarity.
"Home" is a universal concept, but making it resonate across cultures and geographies at Amazon's scale is a design problem.
Brand
The second year expanded beyond the stage into a venue-wide cultural experience, raising the creative scope considerably.
Stryker's global events needed a refreshed event brand each year that strictly aligned with their brand guidelines.
Amazon's global events needed a unified storytelling language, dozens of teams were producing decks with no shared standards.
Motion design at Amazon's events ranged from overproduced to an afterthought, with no shared vocabulary. T
Amazon needed to translate a deeply technical initiative into a keynote moment that a non-technical global audience could feel.
Video
A global opening video needed to connect Amazon employees across continents in a single emotional beat.
Every global event needs an opening moment that disarms, and this one did it through character.
Amazon's satellite broadband initiative needed a story that went beyond specs and orbits.
Staging
A data analytics audience expects innovation on stage, not just in the product.
Bringing an outdoor brand indoors for a product launch risked losing the rugged authenticity Columbia is built on.
A competitive sales audience needs energy from the first second, but the program is loaded with strategy-heavy content.
Panda Restaurant Group's leadership gathering needed to root itself in cultural heritage without feeling like a history lesson.
A developer audience can spot visual filler instantly, so the staging had to be as systematic as the product.