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M Cafe
M Cafe
Video stars (Television and Film Characters and Superheros) dont have their
own cafe like real-life rock stars have the Hard Rock Cafe.
M Cafe will solve this problem by offering a cafe meeting point for all pop and
rock-and-roll things virtual, hosted by the iconic Virtual Marylin.
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The Premise
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INDEX
Brand principles
2.1 Logo
3.1
Digital presence
Support
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4.3 Partners
3.2 Website
4.4
4.5 Colophon
1.1.2 Mission
2.2
1.1.3 Characteristics
2.3 Tagline
3.3 Blog
2.4
Color palette
3.4 Presskit
Color references
3.5
Social media
3.6
Logo variations
Online communication
1.2.2 Overview
2.5
1.2.3
2.6 Inspiration
1.2.4
Grammar guide
2.7
Emotional values
1.2.5
Words we love
2.8
Main fonts
2.9
Support fonts
1.3.2
The Story
1.3.3
Genisis
1.3.4
1.3.5
Brand Structure
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Further support
BRAND
PRINCIPLES
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1.1.3 Characteristics
1.2.3
1.2.4
Grammar guide
1.2.5
Words we love
1.3.2
The Story
1.3.3
Genisis
1.3.4
1.3.5
Brand Structure
1.1.2
MISSION
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1.1.3
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1.1.3
CHARACTERISTICS - M
Her personality is a blend of three characteristics: clever, provocative and friendly. Depending on the medium/product, emphasis may
shift from one characteristic over the others. For example, advertising
spokesperson roles generally skew clever and provocative, while social
media lines tend to be friendly. Here are more details on what we
mean by each.
Its about having fun with words, not sounding cooler than thou.
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1.1.3
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1.1.3
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Galler y Animated picture frames will be created for the caf surprise and ellegance.
1.1.3
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1.1.3
Reality for guests to utilize the menu and VCodes as AR triggers to activate entertaining animations.
This will keep the guests in a state of discovery and will become our signature technologies.
Distance Scanning.
Share Codes on Social Media.
State-Of-The-Art Image Recognition.
1-Click Payment or Information Gateway.
Branded Retail Merchandise includes designer inspired tshirts, packaged coffee, bottled spring water.
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1.2.2
OVERVIEW
Our audience is youthful, intelligent, and tech savvy, and we like speaking to
them in our own language. The ideal tone is hip, easygoing, informal, playful,
and tongue in cheek.
We also have a provocative side, inspired by the rock-star temperament and
Marilyn Monroe herself. She cast the mold of the bombshell and helped shape
the biggest entertainment industry of her time, Hollywood.
In the cutthroat world of celebrity and commerce her entrepreneurial/pioneering
attitude stands as the pillar of success. She isnt afraid to challenge the status quo,
call out the industry, or emphasis her strengths-though she never outright brags,
over promises, or uses over-the-top language.
Clever wordplay and double entendres are a fun way to liven up copy and scripts,
but language should never get in the way of the overall message or service-or,
even worse, seem like its trying too hard.
When in doubt, play it straight, clean, and clear. As they say, less is more.
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1.2.3
DO
DONT
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1.2.4
GRAMMAR GUIDE
Use sentence case, never all caps, unless a design headline.
Ex: Chocolate kick-starts my morning.
Close up the spaces around em dashes.
Ex: I like all variations of chocolateexcept for white chocolate.
Use a serial comma.
Ex: I like chocolate, coffee, and tea.
Use superscript ordinals in print.
Ex: January 1st
Use cardinals for online.
Ex: January 1
Reserve exclamation point usage for social media only. Limit to one exclamation
point.
Ex: Next stop, Hollywood!
Never use Marilyn in the possessive case unless referencing the website.
Ex: Marilyns website
Reserve emoticon usage for social media only. Limit number of emoticons to one.
Winks are preferred.
Ex: Off to LA LA Land ; )
Avoid abbreviations. (Social media excepted.)
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1.2.5
WORDS WE LOVE
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Teammates
The technicians behind Ms empire
Universe/Future
The phrase world is not fresh, refering
to Ms world as the Universe (implieing
galactic travel is already popular in Ms
time) and to what she is saving as the
Future, we keep the storyline possibilities
openended. Universe and Future will always
be capatilised as solid nouns.
Business Partners
Vendors
The M experience
Use in lieu of using the M interface users
enter Omega, abbreviated Mega. Mega is the
vitural system that Virtual Marilyn lives in
and that the universe operates in, much like
Zion in the Matrix.
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1.3.2
The Story
The Rules of Storytelling state that every fictional story creates a new
world where, no matter how closely modeled after our real world, it
has its entirely own set of rules, and the characters are defined by how
they make or break those rule. As designers of Ms story, we have created the rules of:
parallel this one, but going backwards. Just as in the Matrix, Neo can
be in cyberspace reality, or augemented machine reality, M can be in
our world, or the world of Singularity that runs parrallel to and was
born from this one, and only M can travel between.
through interaction with the fans who are well into detail. Online they
can find a new level of brand love material that they discover through
their search. All science fiction follows the Rules of Storytelling and
rarely the discoveries of hard science. When possible, we do vagely
integrate a real world science mystery into our explainations.
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1.4.3
Genisis
The Marilyn Monroe ethos has not only evolved over time, it has
become one of the strongest recognized brand in the world. The
vocabulary of sophistication, class, style and glamour is a reoccurring
phenomenon in the brands history. True innovation always begins
by investigating the historic path. Going back-to-the-roots moves the
brand forward as it changes the trajectory of the future.
The visual brand must be timeless, avoiding by all means going back
in time style-wise into the 50s and 60s. And as with all brand identity
mandate, we equally stay clear of short-lived trendy design. Our
solution is about the experience, the memories and the lifestyle that
Marilyn Monroe is remembered by. Our character M will remain true
to the values of Marilyn Monroe, fashionable, clever, ever-inspired by
life, and ever-inspiring to us.
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1.4.4
These 2 threads of of the story are unique to M and make the story
specifically M-brand and inspire infiniate possibilities for episodes:
show Max Headroom, where Max lives 20 minute in the future, and
Andy Warhol who said in the future everyone will have their 15 minutes of fame and Kurt Vonnegut and Philip Dicks ability to base their
best novels in essentially 1 days time. Every M graphic novel edition
describes in detail only 15 minutes. A glitch in Ms programming, mistaking Warhols quote for Banskys in the future everyone will have
want 15 minutes of anonymity, inhibited her to have only 15 minutes
where she could transverse worlds to save the future. So time is her
Kryptonite, more specifically 15 minutes of time from awareness of the
villains threat to eradication of the threat.
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1.4.5
Brand Structure
The Franchise
Just as Redbull does not own 1 factory, yet is one of the
most pinoeering and pervasive brands of the 21st century,
M Corporation will also maintain a culturally relevant
brand but own no cafe.
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BRAND VISUAL
IDENTITY
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2.2
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Logo variations
2.3 Tagline
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2.4
Color palette
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2.5
Color references
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2.6 Inspiration
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2.7
Emotional values
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2.8
Main fonts
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2.9
Support fonts
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2.1
LOGO
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2.1
LOGO
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2.2
LOGO TREATMENT
The logo must always be placed 2/3rds into a strip, starting from
the left. On the Cafe Website, it is the same slow moving images seen
throughout the cafe. In print its still frames from the videos.
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The logo must always have a Halftone Dot Pattern Overlayed on all
moving image.
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2.2
With each season M picks out the best trends in textiles, synthetics
and other materials. Lovely Macro photography shots of these
fashionable materials will move in slow motion atmospherically in
the strip behind the logo.
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Examples
SS - Spring / Summer Collection
AW - Autum / Winter Collection
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2.2
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2.2
This logo is used only for the graphic novel. The lemurs never make an appearence in the cafes, they are purely for use in the Secret
Singularity and merchandising. This way, when you see a lemur - you know you are entering a tale of the Secret Singularity
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2.2
M TREATMENTS
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TAGLINE
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2.4
C A F E C O LO R PA L E T T E
PRIMARY COLORS
Marilyn was Hot. Monroe was Cool. Just like the persona, Marilyn
Mon- roe Caf combines both of these. The colors used for the brand
identity are a perfect mirror to the ones used in the interior design.
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2.4
C A F E C O LO R PA L E T T E
SECONDARY COLORS
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2.5
COLOR REFERENCES
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C 90
239
C 5
G 35
M 85
G 236
M 5
45
50
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#212340
234
#efecea
G 93
M 65
G 31
M 100
Y 100
100
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227
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K 20
#d0932c
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G 61
M 90
G 193
M 0
30
150
#ee3d96
C 30
154
C 0
238
70
190
C 65
#46c1be
C 5
#e31f26
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2.6
INSPIRATION
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2.7
EMOTIONAL VALUES
Stable
Purity
Sympathetic
Health
Simplicity
Immediacy
Power
Peace
Sexuality
Calm
Earthly
Energy
Integrity
Wisdom
Tender ness
Smart
Reliability
Passion
Understanding
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2.4
G R A P H I C N O V E L C O LO R PA L E T T E
PRIMARY COLORS
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2.5
COLOR REFERENCES
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C 90
239
C 5
G 35
M 85
G 236
M 5
45
50
64
#212340
234
#efecea
G 93
M 65
G 31
M 100
Y 100
100
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227
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K 20
#d0932c
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G 61
M 90
G 193
M 0
30
150
#ee3d96
C 30
154
C 0
238
70
190
C 65
#46c1be
C 5
#e31f26
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2.4
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Etching
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2.6
INSPIRATION
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2.7
EMOTIONAL VALUES
Stable
Purity
Sympathetic
Health
Simplicity
Immediacy
Power
Peace
Sexuality
Calm
Earthly
Energy
Integrity
Wisdom
Tender ness
Smart
Reliability
Passion
Understanding
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2.6
M VALUE APPLICATIONS
Following Ms fashionable genisis, we will invite a exciting clothing designer to design the franchise uniforms.
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2.2
M VALUE APPLICATIONS
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2.2
M INTERIOR DESIGN
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2.2
M INTERIOR DESIGN
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2.8
MAIN FONTS
ABCDEFGHILMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghilmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789&%?!
ABCDEFGHILMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghilmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789&%?!
Cavier Dreams
This is the font used for subtitles next to a tile in
XXXXXX, in that case the subtitle appears a lot
smaller than the title. It can be also use for important
block of text as the introduction slide of this
document on the page 2 or on Lowdi Website.
In this case the interlign space should be wide and
the width and the lenght of the block reduced,.
The cavier cant be used in italic.
ABCDEFGHILMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghilmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789&%?!
ABCDEFGHILMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghilmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789&%?!
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2.9
SUPPORT FONTS
ABCDEFGHILMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghilmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789&%?!
Athelas
This is the font used for subtitles next to a tile in XXXXXX,
in that case the subtitle appears a lot smaller than the title.
It can be also use for important block of text as the introduction slide of this document on the page 2 or on Lowdi
Website. In this case the interlign space should be wide and
the width and the lenght of the block reduced.
The cavier cant be used in italic.
Used just as caption or customer services.
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2.9
SUPPORT FONTS
ABCDEFGHILMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghilmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789&%?!
Blair Medium
This is the font used for subtitles next to a tile in
XXXXXX, in that case the subtitle appears a lot
smaller than the title. It can be also use for important
block of text as the introduction slide of this
document on the page 2 or on Lowdi Website. In
this case the interlign space should be wide and the
width and the lenght of the block reduced.
The cavier cant be used in italic.
The choice of typeface for the logotype is Blair
Medium. It graphic
display is easy to read, classic yet modern and
reminiscent of the hot
metal typesetting used decades ago which gives it a
glimpse of nos-talgia with a contemporary twist.
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ONLINE
COMMUNICATION
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VM2
/ AND
BR AND
G UG
I DUEILDIENLEI SN E S
3.1
Digital presence
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3.2 Website
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3.3 Blog
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3.4 Presskit
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3.5
Social media
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3.6
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3.1
M CONCIOUSNESS
M is aware of the cafe, but she does not make the graphic novel, she
knows that we do and that we know about her adventures because of the
teammates that help run the cafe in her name. M is flattered by the novel,
but always deflects questions about the graphic novel. The graphic novel
exists solely as a piece of artwork, not meant to be explained but to compliment the neo-cafe atmosphere.
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3.1
DIGITAL PRESENCE
Owned media
Social media
Creative platforms
mixcloud
can be bought
vimeo
snapchat
merchandise sold
M Graphic Novel Site - through
subscription
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3.2
WEBSITE
The website of M is one page entirely dynamic so it can viewed on computer, ipad, iphone or android phone. It displays the video teaser, the
capabilities of the virtual personal assistant origin story of the character. Products and services can be order directly from the website.
The website use all the colors from the primary and secondary palette.
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3.3
BLOG
The M blog is linked from the main website.
It is regularly updated with news about arts,
culture and services, mixcloud and videos on
vimeo and some interviews of creative and
inspirational people.
M will be a fashion emphasis.
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3.4
PRESSKIT
A page dedicated to the press is available
on PressDoc. The press released text is
in 6 different languages: french, english,
mandarin, japanese, espagnol and german.
It allows to download a selection of images
(product illustrations, the videos, music and
artwork.
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3.5
SOCIAL MEDIA
FACEBOOK
VM2 has AN active Facebook page showing
the fan mail, posts from the blog, mixcloud
and vimeo. It permits a direct contact with
the users, they ask questions and get answers
in their own language.
TWITTER
M has 1 Twitter account. She answers in
French, English, Spanish, Japanese. As on
Facebook users can ask q
uestion directly to
M. If they share their entousiasm for M they
will be thanked.
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3.6
VIMEO
Heavily into film and up coming filmmakers, VM2 curates her favourite films
of the week and has a film festival review
special.
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SUPPORT
4.3 Partners
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4.4
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Further support
4.5 Colophon
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4.3
PA R T N E R S
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4.3
DESIGN RATIONAL
Futuristic Nostalgia
A clever way of presenting technologies the
public are interested in and that provide the best
customer experiance/service.
Rather than the usual alienating ultra-modern
presentation of contemporary technology,
our approach to presentation has a touch
of nostalgia to the design, we make the new
technology, like holograms, APPEAR old-school. This
presentation future-proofs the theme design.
The unique venue harnesses a symbiosis of old
and new technology to re-introduce ideas
about the relationship between entertainment,
interactivity and audio-visual technology. This
unique offering will be the basis of a thoroughly
strong brand, whose breakthrough is so
disruptive to the marketplace that it establishes
the ultimate pop-culture venue with state-ofthe-art design.
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4.3
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4.3
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4.4
FURTHER SUPPORT
If you need further information or if you
need an approval, the Immersive Team is
always happy to help.
To download everything youll need to put
the guidelines into practice, from logos and
typefaces to imagery and colour palettes,
please contact:
Sean Wilder
Project Manager
sean@immersive.eu
+44(0)20 7403 1616
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4.5
COLOPHON
Sincerely,
John Munro
Version histor y
Date
Version
Authors
Comments
6.11.2015
1.0
Immersive Ltd.
info@immersive.eu
The following persons will be kept informed about the changes in this document.
Name
Function
Company
Sean Wilder
Project Manager
Immersive Ltd.
sean@immersive.eu
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Site Profile
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Site Criteria
Entertainment District
Business District
Shopping Center
Tourist Center
Busy Area with hotels, shops, condos, restaurants and bars
750 1,500 square feet
Minimum 20 Frontage
Easy Ingress / Egress
Patio Seating Preferred
Highly Visible / Impulse Purchase
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This area is innovative and very high-tech. Its a world attractor for those who are
top-end computer scientists and engineers. It has all of that in one spot, plus the
entrepreneurs. Really, there is nowhere else quite like it that has those attributes.
We are here to stay and have made a strong statement with our investment here.
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Terms
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Infrastructure Requirements
Entry: Double door.
HVAC: 7.5 tons minimum up to 1,400 sq. ft., 1 ton per 200 sq. ft. after.
3-phase, 4-wire, 400 amp capacity, complete with all disconnects, fuses,
transformer and breaker panel, and telephone conduit (for POS system).
Plumbing: Three (3) inch - four (4) inch sanitary drain, stub-up,
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About Immersive
For creating the grandest projection mapping the world has ever seen.
Youve probably never heard of Immersive, but youve definitely seen their
work. They were the team who created visuals for the worlds biggest
hologram at an Eric Prydz concert at Madison Square Garden and created
the UKs first live projection-mapped broadcast TV program.
- FAST COMPANY
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About Avitarz
license to use its Intellectual Property relating to the Virtual Marilyn persona.
As well as operating system and manual, marketing plan, technology guidance
and expertise required to design and deliver the tech caf guest experience.
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