Shiseido - Beyond Time

Aging
-04

We created a bespoke technology solution around a real-time, 3D Facial Age Simulation Engine. The experience looks at 1,300 data points in a users face, and compares them to all the average face models in a 3D face database (the second largest 3D face model in the world). Based on this science of aging, we were able to simulate any face at different ages, in real-time.

Design Language
-05

I took cues from the scientific phenomena around the doppler effect for time travel simulations.  Too distinguish when users are moving forward or backward in time blue and red tones were added and synchronized throughout the installation and architecture.

Below are different design sketches around how the participants would look as they travel through time.

Architechture
-03

The architecture of the space was inspired by the Japanese tea house.  I wanted to modernize the concept of this traditional space, historically associated with early forms of communication in Japanese society.  It was important to create a space that culturally felt familiar, allowing people to open up and be willing to discuss personal matters around aging and beauty.

Opacity enabled walls furthered this idea of intamacy in a public space. We used electrically charged films on the glass enabling the walls to become transparent and opaque according to the experience journey. The lighting animaitons inside the walls were in sync with how light changes color when traveling towards or away from objects in space. 

Kinects and cameras connect to the opposite room’s computers, and we use a real time communications engine to synchronize states between the two computers, enabling a seamless experience between the two participants.