WORK NOTE — DISPLAY · KOREA · 2022

When Products Become Symbols

Galaxy Watch and Galaxy Buds became landmarks, not displays.

Samsung retail highlight display for Galaxy Watch and Galaxy Buds
CATEGORY
Retail Highlight Display
CLIENT
Samsung
LOCATION
Korea
YEAR
2022
SCOPE
Creative Direction · Display Design · Production · Installation

INTRODUCTION

Watch and Buds are the smallest products on the floor and the easiest to walk past. The brief was a highlight zone customers could find from the entrance. Our answer was the products' own shapes — at wall scale.

Find it from the entrance

A watch face fits in a palm; the wall does not. We enlarged each silhouette until it reads from the entrance, so recognition happens before the customer reaches the table.

Find it from the entrance

One method, two shapes

Each silhouette is built from stacked timber fins — the same method for Watch and for Buds. One construction, two shapes, so the pair reads as a family without looking identical.

One method, two shapes

Built to survive a store

The silhouettes are built as wall panels, not as a single object — installed, cleaned and swapped piece by piece. The products sit in front on their standard mounts.

Built to survive a store

The product stays the hero

The silhouettes sit behind the products, not in front of them. They point, then get out of the way.

The product stays the hero

OUTCOME

One method, two product families, one wall a customer can read from the door.

DESIGN NOTE

Recognition is designed. Not decorated.

CREDITS

Samsung Retail
Designed, produced and installed by CHAIGRAPHICS
2022

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