
@thesaucepump on Instagram
Moxie work for Arby's Restaurants | Part of Arby's Escape Room Instagram Story Activation | June 24-25, 2019
Arby's is all about their sauces. Whether you're a fan of Arby's Sauce or Horsey Sauce (or not), sauces are a way of life at Arby's.
Since Arby's already owned the @sandwich Instagram handle, we looked into whether anything sauce-related was available. Rather than create yet another channel we would need to generate monthly content for, @thesaucepump became a one-off-barely-related-to-Arby's landing destination for one of the puzzles in the Escape Room activation.
The trend of super-curated "art" accounts (with deep-sounding captions that mean nothing) on Instagram was something we thought would be exactly the type of trend Arby's would enjoy lampooning... and they went for it. We spent an entire day in the Moxie Studio making the content for @thesaucepump with whatever red, blue, white and "cardboard-brown" pieces we could find in Moxie's prop storage closet, brought from home, or purchased inexpensively from our local Sam Flax art supply store. I have an assortment of random stuff at home in my crafting / making supplies, so I brought in two huge tubs of red, blue and white/silver bits and pieces: bottle caps, kitchen sponges, Red and Blue SOLO Cups, Gummi Bears, spools of thread, to-go food boxes, strawberries, Arby's red straws... we used anything that fit the color scheme. The dark blue piece of "Grover fur" and the red Arby's vinyl bag got a lot of use.
Oh, and three one-gallon bottles with Ghirardelli Sauce pumps attached to them which we filled with Elmer's Glue dyed different colors. It's REALLY not milk.
I think we had the most fun making all of the content for this page hardly anyone would see... 51 posts in all to just for ONE puzzle in the Escape Room. Hughston has a particularly good write-up on her portfolio site since she Art Directed all of the images titled, "The Understated Elegance of a Sauce Pump."



The Team
Scott Hunt - Creative Direction, Concept
Hughston May - Concept, Photography, Art Direction, Design and Editing
Orin Heidelberg - Concept, Copywriting
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