Merck Publishes Innovation Brochure With Attractive Interactive Features
Smartphones can be used to activate animated photos
Darmstadt, September 28, 2011 – Merck KGaA announced today that it has published a new brochure depicting how the company successfully transforms new ideas into innovative products, services and processes. The brochure concisely presents Merck innovations in pharmaceuticals, chemicals and life sciences that help to improve quality of life. Yet the 36-page publication entitled "New. Since 1668." is more than just a print medium. On certain pages, readers using a smartphone can activate animated photos and entertaining pieces of additional information.
“Innovation is a central element of the Merck culture,”
says Walter Huber, Head of Corporate Communications at Merck.
“With the brochure, we’d like to show what makes Merck,
its employees and products so innovative as well as what constantly
creating innovations and useful new products means to us.”
The individual examples given in the brochure stand for an entire
series of Merck innovations in a wide range of fields. They include
injection devices for pharmaceuticals, rapid tests for food, liquid
crystals for modern flat screen TVs, services and products for
researchers, as well as developments in traditional
pharmaceuticals, and biotechnology. Readers also learn why Merck
forms research and development partnerships and which achievements
date back to Emanuel Merck, the founding father of industrial
production at Merck.
Readers who have a smartphone or iPad 2 can, for the first time,
use augmented reality technology with a Merck brochure. By starting
an app and holding the device camera over a specially marked photo,
the static page contents transforms into animated photos. A short
video or a bit of 3D animation then explains the page content in a
playful manner, offering information beyond what is contained in
the text. The “junaio“ app runs on smartphones that use
the Android operating system as well as on iPhone and iPad 2 and
can be downloaded from the Internet free of charge.
Readers without one of these devices can also experience the interactive features of the brochure: a special Web version offers a few surprises.
The brochure is available in German, English, French and
Spanish. A new edition of the company profile “The Merck
Group. An Overview“ has also been published. Together with
image brochure “The Merck Way”, which was published
last year, the publications answer the following questions:
“Who is Merck?” “What does Merck do?”
“What does Merck achieve?” All three brochures can be
ordered together in a single folder.
Posted: September 2011
