Projects: Making Visitor Guestbooks Better By Going Digital November 20, 2016 by Dave Haynes Here’s an interesting digital spin on the age-old routine of museums, exhibits and places like B&Bs asking visitors and guests to sign a guestbook. Instead of scribbling something nice in a book, a touchscreen kiosks captures the signature digital, as well as comments and, importantly, opted-in email addresses. New York-based creative design studio C&G Partners …
Seenspire Debuts Social Media Wall Subscription Service November 17, 2016 by Dave Haynes The Belgian creative and content shop Seenspire has added social media visualization toolset subscription to its services, called Social Media Wall. The company is hardly the first to offer a means to get Tweets and Instagram messages up on screens, but what’s always been a little different about these guys is their design chops. The …
Video: Four Winds Uses Own Platform To Track, Drive Sales November 16, 2016 by Dave Haynes I’m not a big fan of the phrase – “Eat your own dog food” – because it kinda turns me off dinner. But … it’s an apt way of describing how organizations actually use the products or services they sell. This is a video I stumbled on from Denver’s Four Winds Interactive – posted a few …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Michael Schneider, ESI Design November 16, 2016 by Dave Haynes I had a chance last week to tour the New York studio and offices for ESI Design, which has done some amazing experiential digital work in public spaces, as well as museums and in retail settings. Michael Schneider is a senior experience designer and creative technologist at the company, and we spent time talking about the …
Saddle Ranch Touts Plans For Ad Network In Marijuana Dispensaries November 15, 2016 by Dave Haynes The U.S. elections last week resulted in several states voting to legalize recreational or medical marijuana, and it should be no surprise that companies of all kinds see an industry that’s got a lot of growth and opportunity in it. Like in digital OOH advertising. Phil Cohen built up his first businesses in digital OOH …
Make Life Easier for IT And Facilities Teams With Enterprise Digital Signage November 14, 2016 by Stu Armstrong Guest Post: Sean Matthews, Visix Different teams need different things, and digital signage allows you not only to tailor content to specific audiences, but also the way you pull in and manage that information. Your IT staff needs to integrate lots of different systems, while your facilities managers are trying to anticipate and meet visitor …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Brad Parler, Blinds.com November 9, 2016 by Dave Haynes A couple of years ago, an old industry friend, Raffi Vartian, said I really needed to see something. He sent me a link to a video, I watched it, and sent back a note saying, “That’s FREAKING brilliant!” The video was for a corporate communications project at the Blinds.com offices in Houston, Texas, and it showed staff-facing messaging being …
Spanish Travel Guide Projection Maps Country’s Cuisine At Launch Party November 4, 2016 by Dave Haynes We’ve seen lots of great example of projection mapping on grand scales – on buildings and monuments – but nowhere nears as many that go indoors and use small, much more intimate settings to play with visuals. Here’s a great one, though, from the 2016 launch party this summer of the latest version of Repsol, …
The Dark Art Of Projection Mapping Now Starts With A $5 Phone App October 25, 2016 by Dave Haynes There was a time, not long ago, when projection mapping was an intensely complicated, labour-intensive art form only high technical, deeply experienced pros could pull off. Now it’s a $5 app for iOS or Android. Well, sorta. The prosumer projector firm Optoma has just announced Projection Mapper, what it has dubbed “the first mobile app …
Top 7 Digital Signage Uses in Convention Centers October 21, 2016 by Ken Goldberg Guest Post: David Kaszycki, Aerva Most convention centers around the world have installed some form of digital signage throughout their facilities. From large LED signs out front to information displays inside meeting rooms, convention centers are quickly becoming a category leader in the digital signage industry. Although many convention centers currently utilize digital signage, they may …
