Diana’s
Solutions don’t have to be complicated, exhausting, or overwhelming. Diana’s Bananas flips the script for overthinkers, using long-form storytelling to expose the comedy of making life harder than it needs to be. The payoff? A simpler, sweeter answer, hidden in plain sight.
To the Rescue™
Print ads were placed placed the ads where they’d hit hardest: in spaces where people have no choice but to pause, in stressful environments like offices, along busy commutes where chaos rules, and even in magazines— where people are often looking for a quick escape or a moment to unwind.
Copy: Kat Stanek
Art Direction: Olivia Reynolds
Where it Started…
Minerva begins with a focus on craft. In my first course, I created these print ads entirely by hand—concept, copy, and design—before later working with an art director to render them in full. These were the original hand-rendered versions:
Let’s not talk about how long it took me to hand-trace, color, scan, crop, and individually drag-and-drop every single letter of the alphabet. Uppercase. Lowercase. Even some punctaution. All of it. It nearly broke me—but honestly? I’d do it again. Bonus points for the confused faces when I started scanning my bathmat and a full bedsheet like it was just another ordinary Tuesday.