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Beverage Lab

Client

Coca-Cola

Year

2023

Role

Executive creative direction

Categories

EXPERIENCE · BRAND

A brand experience built to run every day, not for a weekend.

images/beverage-lab/05.gif · 16:9The Beverage Lab title over animated glassware

Most brand experiences are built for a weekend. The Beverage Lab is a permanent installation at World of Coca-Cola, designed to run daily, at attraction scale, for years.

images/beverage-lab/01.jpg · 3:2Visitors in the Beverage Lab's porthole gallery

Part laboratory, part playground: a journey through light, color, sound, taste, and texture where visitors explore, create, and leave connected to the brand by something they made themselves.

images/beverage-lab/06.gif · 16:9The curved water screen wrapping the immersive room
images/beverage-lab/09.jpg · 16:9The lab sign glowing in the curved corridor

We were responsible for every digital touchpoint in the lab: the design language, the animation, the interfaces, and the interactions at each station, from the first screen a visitor touches to the drink they carry out.

images/beverage-lab/07.jpg · 21:9Visitors dwarfed by the underwater wall, bottles adrift in bubbles
images/beverage-lab/08.jpg · 16:9Choosing a second ingredient at the mixing station
videos/beverage-lab/01.mp4 · 16:9
images/beverage-lab/02.gif · 21:9Flavor visuals flowing across the lab's wide screen

Design exploration

Before any of it was built, the lab existed as a design system: a flavor palette drawn from Coca-Cola red through strawberry, orange, blueberry and lime, an icon language for formula, water, process and caution, and interface studies for every station where a visitor mixes, carbonates, and names a drink.

images/beverage-lab/10.jpg · 16:9The Beverage Lab identity, an immersive experience
videos/beverage-lab/02.mp4 · 16:9
images/beverage-lab/11.jpg · 1:1The flavor palette, each blend named and specified
images/beverage-lab/12.jpg · 1:1The icon language, from formula to sustainability
images/beverage-lab/13.jpg · 4:3Create your flavor, the mixing interface
images/beverage-lab/14.jpg · 4:3The carbonation station interface
videos/beverage-lab/03.mp4 · 16:9
images/beverage-lab/04.gif · 1:1An orange turning, from the flavor studies
videos/beverage-lab/05.mp4 · 1:1