Leading Zero

A fairy tale as a product catalogue

TSUM Minsk × Yandex Go · with Community

A frame under a Russian slide label: a night shop window beneath a fir garland with lights, inside a lit scene where an open book carrying the TSUM logo and a Yandex Go line, with a second line running into the fold, stands in a snowy drawn town under a ribbon banner in Russian

A shop window is a city tradition; a delivery service is a utility. A logo next to a fairy tale reads as an intrusion, not as taking part.

From sponsor of the tale to a character in it: every wonder in the story is the service at work.

Four fairy tales are retold so that each one illustrates a single product advantage: “Morozko” — delivery that holds in the frost, “The Snow Queen” — delivery from shops, “The Nutcracker” — the premium tariff, “At the Pike’s Command” — finding places to eat. Eight windows are assembled into a looped story.

  • Tie each tale to one product advantage without forcing it
  • Build a looped narrative structure that reads from any point of entry
  • Build a physical reason to take a photo into the decor — mirrored photo zones
  • Design the full production pipeline with dates for delivery

Our role: the narrative concept, the dramaturgy of the windows, the mechanics of engagement.

A frame under a Russian slide label: a window framed by red theatre curtains beneath a Belarusian fascia sign, with a ribbon banner in Russian, a nutcracker figure, a woman in a cream gown, a decorated fir, a rocking horse and boxes of presentsThree views of a photo zone under a Russian caption: a yellow frame shaped like a bag full of presents carrying a ribbon banner in Russian, and a shot of two guests photographing a tiered cake at a red-clothed table inside it