Poppin x Pioneer Works

A proposed brand collaboration featuring product development and brand activations.

Project Overview

The Challenge

In this academic project at VCU Brandcenter, my team was tasked with enhancing office furniture and supply brand Poppin through a strategic brand collaboration.

My Role

As an Experience Designer, I led the experiential promotion phase of the project, visualizing brand activations for this collaboration project.

CollaboratorsJade Chen (Art Director), Sarah Hipwell (Brand Manager), Sarah Gray (Strategist)

TIMELINE

January 2023

TOOLS

Photoshop

DISCIPLINES

Experiential Design, Brand Activations, Brand Strategy, Product Design

Strategy

Poppin is an office furniture and supply brand that promotes minimalist, tech-focused design and vibrant, customizable color schemes.

Pioneer Works

With a mission to foster innovative thinking, Pioneer Works provides visual and performing artists, musicians, scientists, technologists, community organizers, and educators the resources and platform they need to expand their practices. 

Pioneer Works Artists in Residence are emerging artists, musicians, and technologists who spend an intensive three months creating art and exchanging ideas.

Collaborating with Pioneer Works

Leaders in innovation can elevate one another to meet consumers in the future of work and creativity.

The Creator's Collection: Collaboration Product & Brand Activation

Art: Modular Easel
Music: Hi-Fi Speaker
Technology: 3D Printing Pen

Experiential Product Promotion

Using Poppin Pods, Poppin’s modular capsule work stations, Pioneer Works Artists in Residency will create art in public spaces to inspire creativity and promote Poppin’s Creator’s Collection.

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