Live bottle engraving booth for Google
A live engraving booth at Google's Rethink ROI 2026: guests uploaded a photo and a name, and had them engraved on a bottle.
- Client
- Service
- Customised Corporate Gifts
- What guests got
- Their own photo and name, engraved on a bottle
- How it worked
- Scan, upload a photo, type a name, then engrave
- The session
- One laser station, eight hours
- One engraving station, running through the event
- 8 hours
- Invited guests, one engraving each
- Up to 120
- Engraving size, scaled to keep the queue moving
- 60 x 36 mm
What we brought
What we can do
We turn a guest's photo into an engraving
Guests uploaded a photo and typed a name, and our system drew it as line art for the laser.
How we look after you
We test everything before the day
We engraved samples on the client's own bottle and scaled the artwork so each guest waited less.
How we look after you
Every order gets engraved
Bottles still waiting when the session ended were engraved at our studio the next day, labelled by order.
Gallery
The whole project at a glance. Drag or swipe to browse; tap a picture to enlarge it.
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The finished piece
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A guest's bottle under the laser.
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A guest's photo, turned into line art.
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A finished bottle, engraved with two cats.
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One of the bottles engraved at our studio.
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Setting up the flowThe client's bottle, logo printed on one side.
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Setting up the boothThe booth, ready for the first guests.
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The laser and the bottles waiting their turn.
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The booth from across the room.
The build
How we built it
4 steps, from the brief to the finished piece. Pick a step to jump to it.
The brief
Step 1 of 4 · 25/09/2026
- Bottles
- Black bottles with the event logo, supplied by the client
- Artwork
- Each guest's own photo as line art, with a name
- Station
- One laser, an eight-hour session
- Limit
- One engraving for each guest's phone
At Additive Inn, our 3D printing studio in Singapore, we ran a live engraving booth at Google's Rethink ROI 2026 event. Each invited guest was to get a bottle engraved with their own photo and a name, one engraving per guest.
Setting up the flow
Step 2 of 4 · 28/09/2026
We engraved opposite the printed Rethink ROI logo, ran the flow end to end and set up the event's upload page. At full size one engraving took 4 to 5 minutes, so we scaled it to 60 by 36 mm.
Setting up the booth
Step 3 of 4 · 06/10/2026
We set up at Google's office on the morning of 06/10/2026: one laser behind its shield, the bottles lined up, and a screen with a code for guests to scan.
The final build
Step 4 of 4 · 07/10/2026
Guests scanned the code, uploaded a photo and typed a name, and our system turned each into line art for the laser. We engraved the last 25 or so bottles at our studio the next day, labelled by order number.
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