Life Colour Window: Shiseido introduces an interactive stained glass facade
updated the 14 July 2015 à 18:32If you’re headed to Tokyo in the next few days, this is an installation that you wouldn’t want to miss!
During the holiday season, the one thing – other than gifts and feasts – we tend to look forward to is walking along a road admiring the gorgeous illuminated decorations. But as great as they make us feel, they are sometimes pretty common and passé as well.
Nevertheless, Christmas is the perfect time for lighting ideas. The Japanese cosmetic brand, Shiseido has one such illuminating idea for its showroom in Ginza, Tokyo and that is to put up an interactive, kaleidoscopic window – developed in collaboration with design studio, Party.
The Life Colour Window is made up of three sectional facades featuring pop-up graphics and transparent LCD monitors, which will react to the colour of the clothes worn by those walking past. In other words, when the nearest passerby walks in front of the facade, the window will take on the colour and graphics of the clothes he/she is wearing. The brighter the outfit, the more it will resemble a rainbow on the facade.
The installation will be taken down after the 25th of December, but there’s also an online experience if you can’t get there before Christmas. All you have to do is connect to your Facebook account to see nine of your photos turn into colourful stained glass windows.
And if you’re heading to Tokyo any time before Christmas Day, do pencil in your planner a time to take a stroll in front of Shiseido’s Ginza showroom – we believe this is one experience you won’t want to miss!
Watch the video:
Lindsay POUI-DI
