Retail

Experiential

Installation

Dalziel & Pow

Dalziel & Pow

The BrandBox

The BrandBox

Client

Dalziel & Pow

Agency

Dalziel & Pow

Release date

Location

London, UK

What I did

Creative and Technical Direction

The context

For Retail Expo 2019, we were asked to design an experiential installation that demonstrated how digital content, data and physical space can work together in a retail context. The challenge was to make it immediately approachable while still expressing advanced thinking around modularity, personalisation and real-time content.

The approach

Rather than designing a traditional booth, we imagined The BrandBox as a compact, self-contained retail lab, a space where brands could explore how identity and storytelling adapt dynamically to different audiences and contexts. The ambition was not to showcase technology itself, but to make it invisible and purposeful, fully serving brand expression and user experience.


The BrandBox combined architecture, large-scale digital surfaces, projection and lighting into a single, coherent modular system that let content adapt in real time across the space. At its core was a generative visual system built from brand assets, able to evolve through curated scenarios and interaction, demonstrating how a single brand system could flex across moods and formats without losing coherence.


Over three days, The BrandBox welcomed more than 200 visitors and generated 157 meaningful brand interactions, becoming a focal point of the exhibition. It sparked concrete conversations around the future of retail experiences, content systems and the role of adaptive design in physical environments.