LED Mesh Wall For Public Art Lights Up In Metro Vancouver August 26, 2020 by Dave Haynes Via AV Interactive This is a semi-transparent LED mesh wall wrapping around the corner of a mixed-use tower in in Burnaby, BC, a city in the immediate orbit of Vancouver. The screen, with a shape very reminiscent of that big Samsung display in Seoul, is very different in that it is there solely to run …
Projection-Mapping Gets An Old Nissan (or Datsun) Virtually Rolling August 25, 2020 by Dave Haynes There is nothing all that new about projection mapping on a car, but this is a really great example of going beyond the car itself as the display canvas. I’m not sure about the context of this, but the small Dallas creative shop Lightware Labs took an old Nissan – probably old enough that it …
Digital Facade Greets Deep-Pocketed Travelers At Louis Vuitton Store In Rome’s Airport August 21, 2020 by Dave Haynes The luxury goods brand Louis Vuitton opened a new store at Rome’s international airport back in late February, just as the pandemic really started to take hold in Europe. So with airports almost empty for months on end, not that many people have likely seen the giant LED facade that welcomes shoppers to the store …
Bucket List Done In Giant 3D Toys On Seoul Shopping District LED Board August 12, 2020 by Dave Haynes Here’s another terrific long-form art piece developed by the Seoul creative shop d’strict for a big outdoor LED display in that city. The display wraps around a corner of the SMTown Coex Artium building, part of the Coex Convention and Exhibition Center in the upscale Gangnam district. This piece is called Giant Toy, and plays …
Reflect, BrightSign, NEC Partner On “Retail Resurgence” Tech, Financing Bundles August 11, 2020 by Dave Haynes Reflect Systems, BrightSign, NEC Display Solutions and NEC Financial Services have partnered up on what they’re collectively calling a Retail Resurgence Program that bundles a set of solution-specific digital signage tech packages with easy, built-in financing options. The solutions are generally familiar – like kiosks with hand sanitizer dispensers – but the wrinkle on the …
Rare Sighting: A Gesture-Driven Interactive Display With A Point! August 10, 2020 by Dave Haynes I am not much of a fan of body and gesture-tracking applications that ask people to get in front of a screen and wave their arms and have that mimicked on the screen those people are viewing. It tends to be eye-candy that has little evident impact or point. But via Linkedin I stumbled across …
New Global DOOH PSA Campaign Reflects #OurSecondChance July 27, 2020 by Dave Haynes The World Out of Home Organization (WOO) has launched a worldwide Digital Out of Home media campaign today – called #OurSecondChance – aimed at reminding people that there are some good things that have come out of this horrible pandemic – like reduced pollution. The campaign was developed for WOO by the UK creative agency …
Enplug Adds Streaming Art App For Business Digital Signage, And Consumers July 23, 2020 by Dave Haynes LA-based digital signage CMS software firm Enplug has launched a new app/widget that enables users to put curated classic and contemporary art work on screens. Enplug Art uses material from contemporary artists and out of museum collections, with some 1,000 works available to schedule and show via everything from set-top boxes to smart TVs. “Digital …
29 Billion Pixels Of Virtual Water Falls In This Aquarium’s Lobby July 14, 2020 by Dave Haynes The folks at the creative shop Fusion CI are particularly known for computer-generated visual effects that feature water, and this is a great example of their technical chops. The St. Louis Aquarium in that Missouri city has a big LED feature in its Grand Lobby that arcs down to a giant clock face. Working with …
Creatives, Technologists Develop Positive Dynamic Campaign About COVID-19 Recovery June 11, 2020 by Dave Haynes A group of creatives, agency people and technologists have developed a different take on public service announcements focused on the COVID-19 pandemic. While the focus has, for months now, been on efforts to remind people to take measures that protect themselves and the people around them, this new campaign is intended as a reminder that …
