Intuiface Launches Creative Experts Program October 12, 2018 by Super User The French firm Intuiface has announced an interesting new partner program squarely aimed at interactive and experiential content designers. The Creative Experts program involves companies that offer experience content design services – who can be connected with end-users or other partners who effectively need someone to design and deliver what shows up on screens. Participating freelancers …
theMART’s Massive Chicago Facade Now Permanently Projection-Mapped (w/ video) October 11, 2018 by Super User What is touted as the world’s largest permanent projection mapping display is now running on the side of Chicago’s theMART, formerly known as the Merchandise Mart. The 2.5 acre south façade of the building (it’s a massive, massive building) is lit up by 34 Christie Boxer 4K30 projectors, generating 1 million lumens to run a …
Interactive Wall, Touted As World’s Largest, Switches On At Riyadh Rail Hub October 3, 2018 by Super User This is what’s being billed as the largest interactive video wall on the planet – set in a rail hub in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The project was put together for the Saudi Arabia Railway (SAR) by the huge Spanish integrator Trison. The job required a curved interactive screen that would be 37 meters wide and 1.2 meters …
LA’s Walt Disney Concert Hall In Projection-Mapped Dream State This Week October 1, 2018 by Super User That week-long projection-mapping job on the Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA is now live, and judging from photos, looks amazing. The Los Angeles Philharmonic collaborated with digital media artist Refik Anadol (hear a recent podcast I did with him) to come up with a data-driven set of visuals that illuminate metallic skin of the …
Bangkok Mall Turns Glass Curtain Wall Into Multimedia Spectacular September 27, 2018 by Super User A new attraction aimed at bringing people to a Bangkok shopping mall lit up in that city on Sept. 15 – using what I am guessing is a lot of projectors, lasers and other gadgets. The nightly show, called the “Colors of Bangkok”, was created by Montreal’s Moment Factory for the CentralWorld mall, and touted …
Mark Bennett Lays Out How MicroGigantic Does Digital Storytelling For Brands September 26, 2018 by Super User In an industry that has, for years, had people endlessly blabbering away about how Content Is King – my God that’s clever! – it’s amazing to me how I can count the number of pure-play digital signage creative shops on one hand. MicroGigantic is one of those rare shops – a Minneapolis, Minnesota-based boutique agency …
Custom Digital Art Floods LED-filled Barcelona Mall To Drive Experience September 19, 2018 by Super User I’ve consulted with shopping mall groups, and they often talk about their aspiration to use digital to create memorable experiences. A lot of what I have seen done in malls is not all that memorable, and ultimately driven more by getting incremental ad dollars from big screens on walls. But sometimes you bump into projects …
Screenfeed Debuts Entertainment Center, For Long Dwell Time Content Needs September 12, 2018 by Super User Minneapolis-based subscription content provider Screenfeed has very cleverly pulled together a new service – called Entertainment Center – designed to serve the needs of the many, many waiting areas and lounges out there that have long dwell times and now use cable TV news channels to distract customers. “We’re very excited about this because we’ve never …
180 Sq. Metres Of LED Bring London Skies Down To Medieval Passageway September 12, 2018 by Super User The property developer wanted to retain and highlight a medieval passageway that runs through the center of a new office tower development in London – uniquely using live 4K video streaming from a rooftop garden to fill the canvas of what is the largest ceiling-suspended LED screen in Europe. The development at Fen Court (10 …
Disney Concert Hall In LA To Get Projection-Mapped, Based On Music Data September 12, 2018 by Super User Via Curbed LA One of the more recognizable buildings in downtown Los Angeles – the Walt Disney Concert Hall – is getting projection-mapped later this month to celebrate the start of the LA Philharmonic’s new season. The Frank Gehry-designed building’s weird and wavy metallic surfaces will be the subjection of digital data projections from September 27 to October …
