Refining the design language behind Nike’s global stores through motion, layout and editorial structure, composed around the athlete.
Ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympics, Nike needed its retail environments to speak the same language as its global brand. A more unified design system was needed, one that could bring motion, layout, and campaign expression into closer alignment across every store.
FIELD evolved Rise into a global content and motion system, defining the principles for motion, layout, and campaign structure across different store formats, seasons, and markets.
Launched during the 2024 Olympics, the system now runs across more than 90 Nike stores worldwide, giving campaign storytelling a unified and refined spatial language while allowing each environment to stay flexible, responsive, and brand-led.
Nike’s stores need to bring together product, sport, campaign, and brand expression without pulling attention away from the person at the centre. The work focused on a retail language that could keep that focus clear across very different environments, from large flagship moments to smaller in-store displays.
Product, type, image, and motion come together as one campaign language, allowing each creative idea to feel recognisable from store to store while still keeping its own energy.
Beneath the campaign imagery sits a clear design grammar for how image, type, product, and motion meet on screen. Layout grids, typographic hierarchies, motion principles, and sequencing rules shape how each asset enters, sits, moves, and resolves, giving every campaign a consistent visual logic while keeping the creative alive.
The work had to function inside live retail environments, where people move quickly, screen sizes vary, and each building brings its own constraints. Large campaign moments, product-led placements, storefront windows, and in-store displays all needed to feel connected without becoming identical.
The system brings an editorial sensibility to retail: a clear hierarchy, a controlled rhythm, and a structure that lets imagery, product, and campaign stories lead.
At House of Innovation Paris, the gridded storefront windows become a sequence of connected campaign moments, extending the experience from inside the store into the street. Across the wider network, the same language adapts to different screen formats, sightlines, façades, product zones, and store layouts, allowing each location to feel connected to the global system while still belonging to its own context.
A strong retail language gives campaign storytelling a clearer structure in physical space, helping a global brand stay recognisable across many locations while leaving enough flexibility for each store, city, and campaign to have its own expression.