Jives

client: Unilever
project duration: 15 weeks
other team members: Joran van Aart, Steven Spronk, Rob Mariet

A vending machine should serve the costumer in a personal way that represents Lipton Ice Tea®

Jives is a new conceptual vending machine made for Unilever’s Lipton Ice Tea. We envisioned a vending machine that serves the costumer in a personal way that represents the brand Lipton Ice Tea.

Jives is a vending machine that just like a real bartender interacts with his customer. He communicates with the costumer through his movements, which have been designed after analyzing the movements of a bartender and looking at the brand identity of Lipton Ice Tea.

All interactions are refreshing, stylish and active and represent the the image of Lipton Ice Tea. For example Jives slips the can into your hand like a bartender sliding a glass over a wet bar.

Jives has been designed as a promotional vending machine. He has come to life in the form of an experience prototype consisting of a wooden skeleton and electronics such as a microcontroller, a DC motor and servo motors. In this team I was mainly responsible for concept development and creation of the physical model.