Yahoo Japan has leveraged 3D-printing technology to recreate different words into mini versions of physical objects they stand for. By integrating the voice search function with the three-dimensional printing, the tech brand has helped visually impaired children in Tokyo get a grasp, literally, of the world around them.
Year: 2013
Perrier-Jouët is taking its art-nouveau visual philosophy further in the new artistic collaboration with London-based photographers Warren du Preez & Nick Thornton Jones, innovators in the image-making and film industry. The creative duo have developed a magic environment in the project entitled An Alluring Journey into Enchanted Nature that captures the spirit of the brand’s heritage and takes the viewers into the half-real world full of anemones, the iconic symbol of Perrier-Jouët.
Following the anti-extremism and anti-human-trafficking online networks launched by Google earlier this year, the tech giant is rolling out a new online humanitarian project, Constitute, which is a searchable archive of fundamental sets of laws of 160 countries of the world. The project was launched on September 23 under the banner of Google Ideas, the branch which had given a grant to the Comparative Constitutions and made this initiative possible.
The Dom Pérignon champagne brand has joined forces with the iconic contemporary artist Jeff Koons to create a limited-edition version of a bottle, a giftbox and a bottle holder in line with his balloon-themed artistic style. For the project, the master has adapted its “Balloon Venus” magenta sculpture, inspired by a paleolithic fertility figurine, the Venus of Willendorf, discovered in Austria and dated back to around 23 000 BC.
