{"id":779,"date":"2014-10-21T11:31:56","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T18:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlalviani.com\/?p=779"},"modified":"2018-08-06T16:34:33","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T23:34:33","slug":"signet-a-better-way-to-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlalviani.com\/?p=779","title":{"rendered":"Signet Digital Shipping Concept"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Signet is a concept developed by a small team of designers at Ziba, to transform personal shipping by moving the data component online. By turning address entry, shipping method, payment, notifications and confirmations&#8211;which are all just bits of data&#8211;into digital interactions, it creates a more flexible shipping system, where you can redirect a shipment by tapping your smartphone during lunch, or split the cost with a recipient by clicking a tab.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/105940152?app_id=122963\" width=\"876\" height=\"493\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Signet - A better way to ship.\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It also brings delight back to shipping. Since the information is digital, a sender only needs to do one thing in the physical world: mark the letter or package with a unique identifier, and set it out. The Signet stamp and the mark it makes are designed to celebrate the moment of shipping, and the new process means you&#8217;re sending your parcel to a person, not a place.<\/p>\n<p>With Signet, missed and unexpected deliveries become a thing of the past (unless surprise is your goal, of course). And it expands the market, by making small, impulse shipments as easy and commonplace as a text or email.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2014\/10\/bold-vision-future-postage-stamp\/\">A Bold Vision for the Future of the Postage Stamp<\/a> &#8211; wired.com<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>WIRED also created their own video for the Signet project, in which several of the design team members, including myself, discuss the influences and intent that drove it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"876\" height=\"493\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KMMyOdOActg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>My role on the Signet team: <\/em>concept development, narrative direction, video planning and scripting, voiceover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Signet is a concept developed by a small team of designers at Ziba, to transform personal shipping by moving the data component online. By turning address entry, shipping method, payment, notifications and confirmations&#8211;which are all just bits of data&#8211;into digital interactions, it creates a more flexible shipping system, where you can redirect a shipment by tapping your smartphone during lunch, or split the cost with a recipient by clicking a tab. It also brings delight back to shipping. Since the information is digital, a sender only needs to do one thing in the physical world: mark the letter or package with a unique identifier, and set it out. The Signet stamp and the mark it makes are designed to celebrate the moment of shipping, and the new process means you&#8217;re sending your parcel to a person, not a place. With..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":[],"categories":[35,30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlalviani.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlalviani.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlalviani.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlalviani.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlalviani.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlalviani.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1500,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlalviani.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions\/1500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlalviani.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlalviani.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlalviani.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}