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Verizon Express is a new store format designed to ensure customers get what they want at the speed they desire. Carefully choreographed touchpoints throughout the store make it possible to do more with less. A new kiosk utilises a platform offering access to Verizon’s complete inventory, enabling a smaller retail footprint. Grab-and-go self-checkouts cut down on waiting.
Action Audio is a world-first system for augmenting live sports with sound, designed to give people who are visually impaired the ability to follow games in real-time. Developed in partnership with Tennis Australia and Monash University, Action Audio uses data from a ball monitoring computer vision system to emphasise key moments of play with a 3D sound design system that has been developed with the blind and low vision community. For many visually impaired sports fans, Action Audio will provide the first opportunity to follow the speed and actions of a live game.
In 2020 — a year with endless global challenges — Choose love invites everyone to join together for Love Without Borders. In need of a virtual solution, the existing e-commerce website is reimagined with a new visual language, toolkit, imagery, and improved functionality. Through Choose Love, online donators can purchase real essentials: from warm meals and clothing to mental health services. And for the first time, personalised e-cards are made available, allowing donators to send loved ones a custom note when a donation is made on their behalf.
Bringing scientists and orchestras together to reinterpret Vivaldi’s original Four Seasons score. The score has been altered using the latest climate modelling data from the IPCC report’s RCP 8.5 future scenario, which assumes no concerted effort to restrict greenhouse gas emissions. Launching with a performance by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra at the 2021 Sydney Festival, a localised variation of The [Uncertain] Four Seasons has been released for every orchestra in the world. Musicians are encouraged to perform their variation for audiences worldwide in the lead up to the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference.
In a year confined to the couch, Netflix took us on a wild ride. As one of this year’s few entertainment options, Netflix is both a source of sanity, but also endless scrolling. Audiences had spent so many hours in front of screens that there was a collective feeling that everything had been watched on the platform. Avoiding those somber feelings of 2020, the viewing became a celebration, a joyful playlist in an otherwise melancholy year.
Illuminate the embers of conversation. Our collective appetite for screen time means the art of discussion is being lost. The Bondfire app has been designed to manage screen time around the dinner table by turning your phone into a rich virtual centrepiece for sparking connections. Start a Bondfire and share the unique code with your loved ones. Each phone becomes a 3D log to stack together creating a fire that grows bigger and brighter as each new person joins to the comforting sound of the crackling flames, evoking the warmth of a real fire. Leave the expansive virtual fire to burn while you reconnect. A gift of conversation. The Bondfire experience provides a visually inviting new way to facilitate connections and bring magic and delight to families this holiday season, including voice capabilities that enable remote users to join the conversation too. Download the app for free on iOS and Android.
AKQA Insight welcomes Kajal Odedra, Executive Director UK at Change.org, the world’s largest petition platform with over 300 million users. Shaped by a childhood steeped in racism and injustice, Kajal was determined to help elevate the disadvantaged in society and amplify their voices. Her message is clear; our individual difference is our super-power, finding solidarity with fellow non-conformists is what forges change, disrupting the status quo is necessary to reclaim our democracy.
An art gallery inspired UX/UI system to honour LOEWE’s commitment into art. Going beyond cookie-cutter design and best practices, AKQA crafted an e-commerce experience inspired by the purity of experience of the art gallery, where the minimalist interface allows focus on the beauty of the products, conveying the quality of the craft. The unique user experience and design system combines brand codes with highly functional e-commerce features, to deliver a seamless and unique customer experience.
For the past 40 years, Allyson has played an instrumental role in the development of Notting Hill Carnival, including the 2020 virtual Carnival, and in 2008 was invited to become a member of the Board of Trustees. She still performs on the streets of Notting Hill every August Bank Holiday with the Genesis band. Allyson joins AKQA Insight in conversation to talk about the importance of celebrating freedom.
Creativepool has recognised AKQA with its highest honour of Agency of the Year along with the People’s Choice award. The Creativepool Annual celebrates the best talent, work and agencies in the creative industry and awards by both the judges and through the people’s choice. Rolls-RoyceMotorCars.com was awarded the highest accolade in the Web category with People’s Choice and Silver wins. HP OMEN Challenge was also recognised in the Effectiveness category. Becky Swarbrick, designer, was also recognised as the People’s Choice for Emerging Talent of the Year.
