If I Hear “Content Is King” One More Time, I’ll Scream November 28, 2016 by Jill Perardi Guest post: Vern Freedlander If I hear someone say “content is king” one more time, I am going to scream. There is nothing new about this statement. We all know content is important. It has driven the success of all media since our ancestors gathered around the fire to swap hunting stories, but for some …
Does The World Need Interactive Gas Pumps? Clue: No November 23, 2016 by Super User Via Adweek Is the two to three minutes you spend at a gas pump a tedious, endless ordeal, or two to three minutes you spend absently looking around as the tank fills up? For me, it’s the latter. I survive, somehow. But BP thinks differently, and has started testing an interactive gas pump called Miles, …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Phil Lenger, Show And Tell November 23, 2016 by Super User Phil Lenger of Show and Tell is a busy guy, but he slowed down long enough to sit recently for a chat in his company’s New York offices, near Penn Station. He even offered a sip or two from one of the many, many bottles of seriously good bourbon he has stocked in the corner …
UX Designers: Your Duty Is To Design Self-Service Systems That Are Just Obvious To Use November 22, 2016 by Matt Downey Guest Post: Bryan Crotaz, Silver Curve I spent 20 recently minutes trying to get out of a car park. With a row of cars behind me queued up hooting. Not the most fun I’ve had lately, and it was the second day in a row it happened. Let’s explore why. I rented a Zipcar – for …
What If You Could Pair A Media Player Browser With Smart Lights? November 22, 2016 by Super User Via Engadget … Philips has marketed ambient halo lighting around some of its TVs and displays for a few years how, with little LED lights in the back or around the edges doing things like picking up the dominant color on the screen and creating a halo around and behind. Kinda cool, but I don’t think …
See All The Top Digital Display Installs In NYC With This Free Tour Guide App November 21, 2016 by Super User Longtime New York-based digital signage design and solution shop Show And Tell has put together a smartphone app for iOS or Android that allows digital signage nerds and newbies to get a guided tour of many of the best installations in the city. The free Digital Design Tour app provides location mapping, visuals and details …
Projects: Making Visitor Guestbooks Better By Going Digital November 20, 2016 by Super User Here’s an interesting digital spin on the age-old routine of museums, exhibits and places like B&Bs asking visitors and guests to sign a guestbook. Instead of scribbling something nice in a book, a touchscreen kiosks captures the signature digital, as well as comments and, importantly, opted-in email addresses. New York-based creative design studio C&G Partners …
Projects: New NYC Museum Exhibit Goes Heavy On Digital To Tell City’s Story November 17, 2016 by Super User Via Untapped Cities There is a ton of really well executed tech in a new permanent exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York, which opens tomorrow in guess where. The digital side of the exhibit was put together by Local Projects, which among other jobs did the experiential digital for the 9-11 …
Seenspire Debuts Social Media Wall Subscription Service November 17, 2016 by Super User The Belgian creative and content shop Seenspire has added social media visualization toolset subscription to its services, called Social Media Wall. The company is hardly the first to offer a means to get Tweets and Instagram messages up on screens, but what’s always been a little different about these guys is their design chops. The …
Video: Projection-Mapped Horrors At Toronto’s Casa Loma November 17, 2016 by Super User Here’s a video of that projection mapping job done on Toronto’s historic Casa Loma, a castle-like private home turned attraction and event center. It was mapped for a Halloween event run over several weeks. The team: Art Direction / Animation – Peter Lacalamita Sound Design – Adam Smith Technology / Project Management – Diego …
