Projection Mapping Program Illuminates 25 Toronto Sites With Public Art April 5, 2022 by Dave Haynes Projection-mapping on buildings has been around for many years, and technology advances have made it much easier to pull these things off. But there is still much to admire about a program done in Toronto that involved 25 different sites across the city. BigArtTO was a city-wide temporary public art campaign launched to help residents …
ASU Management School Uses LED Halo, Suspended Globe, At New Building March 22, 2022 by Dave Haynes This is an early look at the new home of the Thunderbird School of Global Management’s building at Arizona State University, and a lobby/common area that is visually dominated by LED displays. The school in downtown Phoenix is 75 years old this year and it is marking that with a grand opening and anniversary celebration/reunion …
Watch: Nike Delivers One Of The Best 3D Illusion Pieces Yet Seen On Big DOOH Billboards March 22, 2022 by Dave Haynes This is a particularly good piece of 3D creative – unsurprisingly from Nike, which understands the value of that – running now on a corner LED board in the buzzing Shinjuku district of Tokyo, It is celebrating the Nike AirMax and does a particularly good job of straddling the line of fun eye candy with …
Dead-Simple Triggered Floor Projections Drive Workplace Safety March 8, 2022 by Dave Haynes This is an interesting take on the idea on the idea of using sensors to trigger content to displays, based on things like motion or other activity. Just about every use-case in digital signage for this sort of thing has been for managing line-ups or product marketing in retail, but here’s a simplified solution meant …
Immersive Floor-To-Ceiling LCDs Greet Lift Users At Edinburgh Shopping Mall March 1, 2022 by Dave Haynes My introduction to digital signage was almost 23 years ago (23 years???!!!) when I walked into an office tower elevator in downtown Toronto that had been kitted out with a small LCD screen up in one corner, and having seen how people all stared at that screen, I was convinced there was something there and …
LG Broadens NFT Digital Art Partnership With Blackdove To Include Corporate Projects February 16, 2022 by Dave Haynes LG has extended a partnership with the digital art curation platform Blackdove from residential into commercial digital signage projects, making it possible to put large format digital artworks on to video walls in venues like office tower lobbies and corporate reception areas. Available in markets worldwide starting this quarter, says PR, Blackdove curation software can …
Projection-Mapped Illuminarium In Atlanta Sweats Asset By Adding Immersive Bar To Experiences February 15, 2022 by Dave Haynes Temporary and permanent indoor projection-mapping experiences are starting to grown common in big cities – large, open spaces like old loading docks and storage rooms in which the walls and floors are painted in edge-blended motion and still graphics. The main business model for these spaces is as large-scale art spaces that people can walk …
Subtle Mini Projection On Tabletop Fixture Helps Market Lab-Grown Diamonds February 14, 2022 by Dave Haynes A lot of what gets attention these days in digital signage and pro AV has to do with scale – the biggest this or that. Here’s something quite effective in retail at small, almost miniature scale. It’s a tabletop projection display by Dallas-based Glass Media for the lab-grown diamond brand Clear Origin. I don’t have …
Louisville’s Bus Routes Add GPS-Updated Rider Kiosks February 9, 2022 by Dave Haynes The LA-area digital signage solutions provider Red Dot Digital Media has an interesting technical case study out on a project done with Silicon Valley media player shop BrightSign for the Transit Authority of River City (TARC), a major public transportation provider in Louisville, KY. The project saw a network of digital kiosks located at each …
Beijing Opening Ceremonies Clearly Used A Lot Of LED, But Nothing Clear About The Supplier! February 7, 2022 by Dave Haynes The giant display that covered the full floor of the stadium hosting the opening of the Beijing Winter Olympics was definitely LED technology, but what’s not at all definite – it seems – is the supplier of all those LED tiles. In various reports and social media posts from companies, the 10,000-plus square meters of …
