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Background: Argos is the home of many premium and luxurious products, but people still associate the retail store with toys. So, we wanted to create a fun and disruptive way of showing UK shoppers there’s more to Argos.

Design core: To prove there’s more to Argos than toys, we wanted to showcase two of its luxury goods—a sofa and a SMEG fridge. But we wanted to do this in a way that would really grab people’s attention and make fun of the misconception that Argos is only for playthings. We boxed these items up like giant toys, with bespoke packaging and labels that linked to the benefits of these beautiful products.

Challenges: The logistics of suspending giant, heavy, double-scale 3-D replicas on the sides of buildings in busy London areas wasn’t easy! It required meticulous engineering. We had to work tirelessly with OOH campaign agency Grand Visual and local authorities to overcome safety checks and obstacles like weather problems. However, we really pulled together as a team. The Argos clients were also brilliant in supporting this ambitious project from start to finish.

Favorite details: First, turning household items into giant toys is not a sentence you expect to write in a client deck, let alone one that actually comes to life. Second, the standout detail has to be the packaging illusion itself. The acrylic window and the subtle reflections make the products feel properly boxed, like they’ve just been pinned straight onto the street.

Also, in this day and age, people may think this campaign was done using AI. But no, everything was done physically in real life.

Visual influences: This whole thing is basically a love letter to toy packaging culture. It’s remembering the kind of toys you’d beg your parents for in an Argos catalog as a kid, circling things in a ballpoint pen. The plastic windows, bold color blocks, oversized typography and that oddly satisfying sensation when you see that everything is neatly contained inside.

Specific project demands: A non-negotiable for us was that the installations had to be huge and had to be 100 percent genuine. We didn’t want to rely upon AI imagery or CGI to bring this to life; we wanted the whole thing to be built and suspended on buildings for real. This obviously brought lots of challenges, but we think it paid off. Social media has been flooded with photos from people who have spotted these posters in the wild and felt compelled to post about it, which is just about the best reaction we could have hoped for.

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