Our Lab

We were asked to produce the technology to deliver a new model of car at a car show as a "Virtual launch".

100 iPads would be loaded up with the app and handed to eager viewers so that they could walk around a stand and inspect the car in detail, switching on virtual lights and even changing the paint colour.

Though the timing of the idea meant that the project couldn’t go ahead, it did get us playing with some of the new high resolution lighting and models now available and who knows, one day timings may be just right to deliver synchronised virtual car launch all over the World.

The problem with great ideas is that they need to be packaged as concepts before the real work begins.

We put this graphic together to show how the process evolves from a quick sketch version of an idea to a refined, glossy, ready to go high resolution item of artwork. Sorted.

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This one made it out of the labs but really just started as experimentation.

Using the our Onvert system, we created a Facebook app that allows you to select your face from any of the wonderful photos you and friends have uploaded. Then, using a secret formula and some powerful psychological questions (all of which was done during a lunch break), we produce a 3D, augmented reality cartoon character of you. There are thousands around the World – from Vampires to Athletes, Mermaids to Ghosts – dare you hatch yours?

OK, more cars but this is very much the softer side of motoring.

All engines are just recycled and refined from the earth – so we created a quick graphic to represent it.

You nearly blinded me

anonymous Harmony client

Sometimes our ideas just shouldn't get out of the laboratory - in fact, they should be locked away for our own protection.

Our logo has always had a butterfly element to it so we thought "What a brilliant idea, have a little butterfly that flies into the air when the card is opened".

We designed and printed boxes of them and eagerly awaited peoples reaction to the rubber band powered surprise.

Regretfully, the complaints that arrived, threat of court action and statements such as "You nearly blinded me" and "What if I had a weak heart?" will echo for many years.

Still, they were quite fun.

Sometimes even we get caught into the daily routine of work so we wrote a little book to fix the problem.

A fold out book of hints, tips and reasons why making every day different is important. It’s small, concentrated and fun.

If you’d like a copy, just ask!

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To us, this site is like a favourite toy.

Our oldest Labs entry; we started zipadeeday.com over 12 years ago as a site to test out technologies, try design ideas and generally mess around.

It is overdue some Harmony love but even now there are thousands of visitors to it every week reading the light hearted content and even after all these years, it still makes the World smile.