Browsing the library

The pill bar on every library page — All work, Industry, Format, Work type — the Filters drawer, what Format means versus Work type, and why the grid never goes blank.

The library is FOOH's archive of published work: CGI placements, real 3D billboards, VFX, AI video and the other disciplines, from studios and independents around the world. It's open to everyone — no account needed to browse.

Every library page has the same bar of pills across the top — the library itself, the curated views, the industry, format, work-type and tag pages, and search results. Learn it once and it works everywhere.

The pill bar

[ All work ▾ ] [ Industry ▾ ] [ Format ▾ ] [ Work type ▾ ]            [ Filters ]

Each pill opens a menu. Pick a value and it replaces the pill's name — Beauty & Personal Care instead of Industry — so you can read your current selection straight off the bar. A × on a picked pill clears it again, and the first row of every menu does the same (All industries, Any format, Any work type). The Industry menu has a search field at the top; type a few letters instead of scrolling.

  • All work holds the curated views: Staff picks (see How staff picks work), Award winners and Challenge winners. It is the only "view" control — there is no sort control anywhere. Work is shown in its noteworthy order by default, and a view with nothing in it yet isn't listed.
  • Industry — the sector the campaign was made for: beauty, automotive, fashion, food & drink and so on.
  • Format — where the work runs. See Format versus Work type below.
  • Work type — how the work was made: CGI, VFX, AI Video and the other disciplines.
  • Year or Edition — a fifth pill that appears only on the winner views. On Award winners it's Year, one year's medalists; on Challenge winners it's Edition, one challenge's placed entries. Leave the view and the pill disappears.
  • Filters, at the right end, opens the drawer with everything else — see below.

Menus list only values that have at least one published entry, so a pick on its own never leads nowhere.

Format versus Work type

The two pills are easy to mix up. They answer different questions:

  • Format is where the work runs. FOOH is a fake placement in the real world — a CGI object dropped into real footage of a street, a stadium, a shopfront. 3D Billboard is a real screen — an anamorphic piece that actually played on a physical display. A work carries one format or none; work made for the feed simply has no format. Pick 3D Billboard and the grid switches to landscape cards, because real screens are shot wide.
  • Work type is how it was made — the discipline or technique. It never lists FOOH or 3D Billboard, because those are formats, not disciplines.

The two combine: 3D Billboard plus CGI shows CGI-made billboard work only; Beauty & Personal Care plus 3D Billboard shows beauty campaigns that ran on real screens. Every pill narrows the same grid, so each additional pick shows less, never more.

Artists set the format when they publish — see Publishing to the FOOH library — and the FOOH team checks it in review.

The Filters drawer

Filters opens a drawer with the less common axes: Country, Campaign type (client work or spec work), Brand, City and Tags (the effect vocabulary — floating objects, building transformations and the rest). Set what you need and choose Show results; Clear empties the drawer's fields without touching the pills. When drawer filters are active, a small badge on the Filters button shows how many are set, so you know why the grid is narrower than the pills alone would make it.

Tags left the bar but not the site: every tag still has its own page, and each work page links the tags it carries.

When your exact selection has nothing yet

The grid never goes blank. If the combination you chose has no exact match, a one-line note under the bar says so, names what was relaxed, and the grid fills with the closest work — for example, No 3D billboards for Beauty & Personal Care in Poland yet. Showing 3D billboards for Beauty & Personal Care from everywhere.

The filter you added last comes off first, then the one before it, until something shows. The note links to that wider selection; your exact choice stays on the pills, so you can accept the wider view or change something else. A page's own subject — the industry of an industry page, the tag of a tag page, a search term — is never relaxed. Scrolling keeps working on the relaxed set, so it's a full result, not a stub.

Every pick is written into the page address, so a filtered view can be bookmarked or shared as a link, and the back button undoes one pick at a time. Each single pick also has a page of its own: fooh.com/library/industry/automotive, fooh.com/library/format/3d-billboard, fooh.com/library/work-type/cgi, fooh.com/library/tag/floating-objects. The directories index lists them all, next to the brand, city and creator pages.

Old links keep working. Bookmarks from the previous site that switched between FOOH and 3D billboards, or pointed at an effect, land on the matching page today.

On a phone

The bar is one row that swipes sideways; Filters sits at the end of it. Each pill opens a sheet from the bottom of the screen instead of a menu — choose a value with your thumb and the sheet closes on the pick. The search field in a sheet doesn't grab the keyboard on open, so the list stays visible until you tap into it.