At the end of every year, Orange France sends a Happy New Year card to their corporate commercial contacts. This year it needed to communicate the launch of a new five year strategic intent, called Essentials 2020. Leading the project, I wanted to combine printed traditional Taiwanese sky lanterns with an online experience enabling a digital version of each lantern to be launched online inside a virtual landscape that incorporated real weather data. The digital lanterns that were liked or shared the most in social media would fly the farthest and the winner would take a real hot air balloon ride over the trajectory of their lantern, air traffic laws permitting.
