Three-Sided LED Column Is Towering Centerpiece In Chilean Flagship Store January 3, 2022 by Dave Haynes The visual centerpiece of the Santiago, Chile flagship store for retailer Falabella is a more than 16 meter tall, three-sided fine pitch LED column with a wide assortment of custom creative designed much more to deliver experience than sell stuff. The column is in a central plaza, surrounded by up/down escalators, and it may (or …
Beauty Brand’s New Andorran Concept Store Uses LED Columns As main Design Feature, Inside And Outside December 28, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is definitely one of the nicer applications of transparent LED technology I’ve seen applied to retail – a concept store for a beauty brand in Andorra. The digital experience side of the Julia Onix store was pulled together by the Barcelona-based creative technology shop Instronic, and uses semi-transparent mesh LED as the main feature …
Boston Market Building’s Atrium Transformed Through Indoor Projection-Mapping December 22, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is a really interesting use of an otherwise unproductive atrium space in a market building in Quincy, MA, a south Boston suburb. The Gallery at Kilroy Square is now an interactive canvas for local and regional digital artists that will switch out exhibitions easily, because the main delivery mechanism is projection mapping. The program …
Telecine Continues Its Tradition Of Laughter-Filled Holiday Season Videos December 22, 2021 by Dave Haynes I wondered if the folks at Montreal’s Telecine Multimedia would do another loopy holiday season video this year, as they dealt with the shock and grief of losing their founder James Fine this fall to cancer. They compromised – putting together something of a highlights reel that is punctuated with a lot of smiles and …
Experiential Video Wall Greets Visitors To NAB’s New HQ Building December 21, 2021 by Dave Haynes The National Association of Broadcasters, or NAB, recently relocated its headquarters, and the new venue features a pair of experiential digital features that greet and inform visitors. The Washington, D.C. headquarters in the Ballpark District includes a 17 x 12 foot LED video wall in the lobby, and a five-panel digital Hall of Fame touchscreen …
Motion Tracking Dynamically Animates St. Louis Arts Center’s Digital Donor Wall December 20, 2021 by Dave Haynes The new University Campus of the Center of Creative Arts in St. Louis, MO has made a 20-foot wide interactive display a visual centerpiece for the multidisciplinary community arts organization, using a motion-tracking system to react to the actions of onlookers. The wall was put together by the Boston-based creative technology firm SOSO. From start …
Cycling Retailer Q36.5 Uses Fine Pitch LED To Make Visual Statement At New Zurich Flagship December 17, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is a recently-opened flagship store of the cycling-focused retailer Q36.5 in Zurich – a two-level venue that’s visually dominated by a big fine pitch LED that fills a feature wall. The LED is an AOTO 1.5mm. This is notable because of its scale. In larger stores, a screen of this size might still just …
Re-booted DSE Revives Awards Program Under A Very Vegas-Appropriate Handle: The DIZZIES December 16, 2021 by Dave Haynes The re-boot of DSE is continuing, with the Digital Signage Experience team announcing today it has revived the awards program that was directly tied for many years to the now-defunct version of that trade show and conference. What were the APEX awards before the original show backers Exponation ran into crippling financial troubles will now …
This Edinburgh Krispy Kreme Has A Doughnut Hole Right In Its Window Video Display December 14, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is an interesting application of an LED video display built into the window of a Krispy Kreme shop in an Edinburgh, Scotland urban shopping mall – with three-dimensional creative built around the doughnut hole in the LED wall. The doughnut shop, says software provider embed signage in a YouTube feature, “is a modern take …
UAE Mega-Mall Adds Illusion-Driven Experiential LED Display In Central Plaza December 14, 2021 by Dave Haynes The first wave of anamorphic illusions on LED displays seemed to almost exclusively be associated with booked advertising on media company billboards, with a sprinkling of public art initiatives here and there. Now we’re starting to see these visual tricks – also referred to as forced perspective illusions – showing up as attractions and experiential …
