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II · Brand Activation

Panadol: Art of Release

A frustration walks in. A lighter version of you walks out.

تدخلُ بثقلٍ، وتخرجُ أخفّ.

Year
2023
Location
Mall of the Emirates & JBR, Dubai
Discipline
Brand Activation
Recognition
Smarties Gold · 2023
The Film

See it move.

I · The Story

Panadol relieves pain. We asked a quieter question: what would it feel like to relieve the thing underneath the pain?

Mall of the Emirates moves fast. People pass through it carrying small weights, a hard week, a tight chest, a frustration they have not put down. A pharmacy promise lives in that gap. So we did not build a booth. We built a short world a person could step into, hand over one frustration, and walk back out a little lighter.

The activation read the moment and answered it. A guest named what was weighing on them. Light, breath, and sound carried them through a release sequence. At the end, an AI made them a portrait of the lighter version, proof, in their hand, that something had lifted. Not a product demo. A feeling, staged.

The World
By Day

Sailing by day.

The Billboard

The city became the canvas.

II · The Brief

The ask

Bring Panadol's promise into a mall in a way people would stop for, feel, and share, without a hard sell. Two high-traffic sites. A brand that lives on a shelf, asked to live in a body for ninety seconds.

A shelf product had to become a felt moment, in the middle of a mall, with strangers walking by.

III · The Walk

Ninety seconds, staged in four beats.

IV · The Craft

What it took to build.

What it moved.

Art of Release, awarded Smarties Gold for brand experience.

Smarties MENA · 2023

VI · What you might wonder

Curiosity, answered.

If you have a brand to bring to life.

We take a small number of projects each year. Brief us with a sentence, a product, a feeling you want a guest to walk out with.

Every world begins with a conversation.

Begin a project

A story. A space. A world.

حكاية. مكان. عالَم.