ZEISS / South Korea

ZEISS
SMILE.

Scope
OOH Campaign · Motion · CG/VFX
Market
South Korea

An out-of-home visual campaign for ZEISS in South Korea, designed to reinforce the brand at the top of the market through mesmerizing, striking visuals across the city.

The visual narrative

ZEISS SMILE is a minimally invasive laser vision correction procedure used to treat myopia and astigmatism. Creating a visual narrative to exemplify the procedure was an exciting challenge that not only fit the brand's standards but also took it somewhere new.

A kinetic sculpture representing a real iris, made of hundreds of layers of delicate lenses, was the perfect visual metaphor to bring all the elements together. The intricate dance of colors and refraction displayed beautifully on screen, while also providing an appropriate stage to demonstrate the surgical procedure with pleasantness and ease.

A push and pull between soft scenes and intense moments, held together by a complexity of visual details that inspires awe instead of overwhelm.

Iridescent ZEISS iris sculpture behind a curved lens
Close-up of the layered blue iris sculpture
Blue refractive layers of the ZEISS iris sculpture
Fine cyan and violet layers curving around the iris

Layers in motion

Process / CG
Iris sculpture material study
Purple kinetic iris sculpture development
Color study for the layered iris sculpture
Three-dimensional mesh development for the sculpture
Glossy violet folds from the ZEISS campaign
In the city

A new visual presence across South Korea.

ZEISS SMILE campaign displayed on M-live in South Korea
ZEISS SMILE campaign displayed on Hanwell Flex in South Korea
ZEISS SMILE campaign displayed on the curved G-vision screen
ZEISS SMILE campaign at Gangnamdaero bus shelter
ZEISS SMILE campaign throughout Gangnam Station
ZEISS SMILE campaign on a Seomyeon LED billboard
ZEISS SMILE campaign on the Samsung Building in Seomyeon
ZEISS SMILE campaign at a Busan taxi shelter
Credits

Creative directors

Christian Zschunke · Guilherme Todorov

3D artists

Christian Zschunke · Guilherme Todorov · Norman Struwe · Philipp Brates · Simon Fiedler

Producer

David Adam · Markus Trautmann · Jan Birkenbach

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