Media Giant Bloomberg Repurposing Social News Videos For DOOH Screens November 13, 2018 by Dave Haynes Via Digital Signage Pulse The financial news giant Bloomberg now sees digital out of home as a market for the social media-angled news briefs it started about a year ago, under the handle TicToc. In a guest post on Digital Signage Pulse, the NYC-based media company’s Head of Strategy and Business Development for Bloomberg Digital talks …
Towering Statue Projection-Mapped At Night To Honor Late Indian Statesman November 1, 2018 by Dave Haynes This is pretty wild – projection mapping on the world’s tallest statue, a 182-meter tall bronze-clad tribute to an Indian statesman. The Statue of Unity in the state of Gujarat honors the late Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, often called the “Iron Man of India” for his role in the nation’s struggle for independence. For some sense …
Projection Mapping Used To Tell Concorde’s Story, With The Jet As The Screen October 29, 2018 by Dave Haynes Here’s a great example of projection mapping being used to tell a story, with the subject of that story doubling as the digital canvas. A specially constructed hangar at Aerospace Bristol in England is home to the last Concorde supersonic passenger jet ever built, and the long, lean jet itself is used as the projection surface …
Watch: Artwork On Fine Pitch LED Morphs To Logo When Sensor Triggered October 19, 2018 by Dave Haynes This is a cool little concept from the digital creative shop Fusion CI Studios – a morphing animation on a big screen, triggered by a sensor. You are currently viewing a placeholder content from Vimeo. To access the actual content, click the button below. Please note that doing so will share data with third-party providers. …
rAVe Pubs Evolves, Grows Into THE rAVe Agency October 17, 2018 by Dave Haynes Gary Kayye is a very smart, Type AAA guy who has been around the AV industry for 20 years, watching it grow and evolving his business to address gaps in services he believed he could fill. He started with an AV marketing consulting firm, and that led to rAVe [Publications] – which is by probably …
Intuiface Launches Creative Experts Program October 12, 2018 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …