化粧品ブランド「HERA」 
株式会社パシフィック・コーポレーション

“HERA” 
PACIFIC CORPORATION (Korea)

Category: Packaging Product Branding Date: 1996

We participated in the launch of HERA, the flagship brand of Pacific Corporation (now Amorepacific), a central player in the Korean cosmetics industry. We proposed reflecting East Asian originality and were responsible for developing the brand concept, as well as designing the brand logo, products, and packaging.
Drawing on the brand name’s origin in Greek mythology, we created a narrative in which “the mission of the brand is to convey the beauty of the sky goddess HERA to women on earth.” Focusing on the East Asian cosmological concept known as the theory of a round heaven and a square earth, we adopted it as the formal foundation for all container designs. This simple geometry—composed solely of circles and squares—creates a distinctive sense of luxury.
At the time in Korea, expressions of luxury were predominantly conveyed through design approaches referencing Western aesthetics or through decorative embellishment. In contrast, we presented a new form of luxury grounded in East Asian culture, characterized by contemporary, concise forms imbued with a sense of strength. HERA achieved significant success and continues today to be developed as one of Korea’s representative brands.