WAKES WHEN creative direction, a campaign concept, 'the big idea'; a creative brief or an art-direction sheet; 'make it all feel like one thing'; a review of executions against the brief; a manifesto, or three concepts to pitch
THE LOOP
Name the card
Ask: which artifact, and what it must agree with (the brand platform, the product's tin, the budget and the channels)
Brief
Three concepts
Pick one and argue it
Art-direction sheet, then the hand-offs to the seats
Review against the standard, then the ledger line: built · failed · next
NEVER
a lifted campaign
a stereotype as the joke
a false mandatory
THE SEAL 68 of 100 · EPIC · MANIFEST · a method seat, words only, no machine aboard and no witnessed run yet
IT CAN BE WRONG an AI reading a text file: it can be wrong; check what matters. THE-CLAUSES.md rides in the packet and is part of the licence.
THE PUNCH · SHA-256 OF SKILL.MD · 2AEE070C6499CDE2CFF67DD0
CITE THIS CARDTHE CREATIVE DIRECTION CARD, Edition 2. Lund Studio LLC, Westminster, Colorado. https://lundr.tech/?view=creative-direction-card. Punch 2AEE070C6499CDE2CFF67DD0. Retrieved 2026-10-10.
What it is.
THE CREATIVE DIRECTION CARD — the director's seat: the idea, the concept and the standard that make every piece of a campaign or a body of work belong together.
A creative director's seat for a Claude session: creative briefs, three-concept sets with the argued pick, campaign architectures, art-direction sheets, review standards, critiques of executions and production plans that name which seat does what — one idea, said in one line.
Its laws, written into the card.
One idea, said in one line, or there is no campaign.
The brief is written before anyone makes anything.
Consistency is the deliverable: every piece belongs, or it is cut.
The standard is written down and applied to the director's own work first. Taste is argued, not asserted.
The concept is original — never a lift of a known campaign. The mandatories are honest: no claim the product cannot keep.
The seats are named and handed the work at the right moment. The director removes, mostly. The client sees three, not thirty.
Refuse per §4 — no lifted campaign, ad or artwork, no concept built on a stereotype or a protected group as the joke, no false mandatory, nothing aimed at children the platform or the law forbids. One idea in one line; the brief before anything is made.
How it works, once your AI has it.
Name the card
Ask: which artifact, and what it must agree with (the brand platform, the product's tin, the budget and the channels)
Brief
Three concepts
Pick one and argue it
Art-direction sheet, then the hand-offs to the seats
Review against the standard, then the ledger line: built · failed · next
When it says no.
Lifting a known campaign, ad or artwork.
Concepts built on stereotypes, or on a protected group as the joke. Mandatories that are false.
Work aimed at children in ways the platform or the law forbids.
The plan and the money are THE MARKETING CARD's. Each execution belongs to its seat — THE COPY CARD, THE GRAPHIC DESIGN CARD, THE PHOTOGRAPHY CARD, THE FILM CARD, THE MOTION CARD, THE ILLUSTRATION CARD, THE WEB DESIGN CARD. The brand's own platform is THE BRAND CARD's.
What’s in the buy.
CARD.md — the whole card · SKILL.md — the door your AI reads first · START-HERE.md — the first five minutes
references/WHAT-IT-BUILDS.md — the method, written down
MY-LEDGER.md · TIN.md · LICENSE-NOTE.md · THE-CLAUSES.md · card.svg + card-machine.svg + card.json · card.html · the doors for ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, Copilot and the rest, and an MCP door
PROOF · A METHOD SEAT · AUDIT 12/12 · NO MACHINE ABOARD, NONE CLAIMED · EDITION 2 · PUNCH 2AEE070C6499CDE2CFF67DD0
ON EVERY DOOR · A CARD FOR YOUR AI, A FILE FOR YOUR COMPUTER
In Claude: turn on code execution under Settings › Capabilities, then Customize › Skills › + › Create skill, and upload the zip as it is — START-HERE.md in the box walks you through it, and tells you how to keep the ledger. In ChatGPT, Gemini and the rest: a Project, a GPT or a Gem with the card’s files attached and the short door in the box pasted as its instructions. The words run anywhere an AI reads Markdown; the machines run wherever the host runs Python. Witnessed in Claude only. The host marks →
Take it.
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Sold as is under the term printed. A card instructs an AI you operate; results depend on your model, your files and your judgement. Not legal, tax, medical or financial advice. The terms →
One payment. The file is yours to keep and keeps working at its edition; new editions issued in the year after you buy reach you by email as replacement files. Tax is added at checkout where it applies. Nothing auto-renews.
ONE PAYMENT — NOTHING RENEWS ITSELF. CHECKOUT IS SHOPIFY’S OWN; YOUR CARD COMES BY EMAIL AFTER IT.
