Another Anamorphic LED Public Art Board Surfaces, This One In China October 9, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is a big wrap-around DV LED display on the corner of an urban shopping plaza in Chengdu, China, using 3D animation techniques to create the illusion that a Star Trek ship is emerging from the building. The set-up is VERY reminiscent of a board in Seoul that also also shows public art. You will …
Reminder – Global Digital Signage Awards Submissions Close Today September 30, 2020 by Dave Haynes A final reminder that today is the end of September – yay, 2020 is gone in three more months!!! – and that means it is the last day for entry submissions to the global Digital Signage Awards, which 16:9 helps sponsor and guide. The UK team that puts together the awards has had to pivot, like …
New Hollywood-Themed Dubai Lux Hotel Fills Check-In Area With Big LED Visuals September 29, 2020 by Dave Haynes The Cosmopolitan in Vegas now has a worthy competitor to top the list of the most digitally-driven lobbies in a high-end hotel. This is the lobby of the recently completed and opened Damac Paramount Hotel in Dubai, which is next to the main roadway and mass transport line that bisects the city, and in the …
UPshow Closes $14M Series A Raise To Grow Its “In-Venue Engagement” Business September 29, 2020 by Dave Haynes The Chicago-based, gyms and bars-focused digital signage solutions start-up UPshow has closed a $14 million Series A funding round the firm will use to build out its business and installed footprint. The raise is a mix of institutional capital investment and angel funds from people like former Publicis Groupe Chief Strategist and Chief Growth Officer …
Watch A Giant Polar Bear Walk Over Crowd On Chinese Attraction’s LED Canopy September 28, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is a fairly amazing LED canopy ceiling in what I think is a theme park in Jinhua, China, a large city roughly south of Shanghai. Details are scant, as is often the case for projects only written about in local languages, but I think this is the Shanghai Bund theme park, which is a …
Sort Through Craft Beer Options With This Projected, Interactive Bar Top September 24, 2020 by Dave Haynes Using projection and cameras to make an otherwise mundane surface interactive is not new, but technology advances mean the experiences are steadily getting better and the ideas more interesting and fun. This is a concept from Argo Design, a creative technology agency that is based in Austin, TC but also has offices in New York …
Beauty Brand Uses Digital Facade At Store To Drive Brand, Traffic And Sales September 23, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is a really nice multi-screen project for a beauty brand’s store in Andorra, and a great example for marketers in this industry on what to do when showcasing company work. The project page is rich in detail and visuals showing what was done, how and why. Too often, I get pitches or news releases …
Submission Window Closing For Global Digital Signage Awards; Why Your Firm Should Enter September 22, 2020 by Dave Haynes Re-upping and refreshing this post from early summer about the global Digital Signage Awards, which 16:9 helps sponsor and guide. The submission window is starting to close, and with the demise of DSE and the COVID-driven reduction in marketing opportunities, entering awards makes more sense than ever. The DSE people did a great job driving …
Krispy Kreme Uses Doughnut Theater To Pull In Times Square Crowds In NYC September 18, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is the Doughnut Theater Experience – the big Wow Factor feature of a Krispy Kreme flagship store in Times Square in New York. David Title and his crew of artists, coders and techs at Bravo Media spent about a year developing a set of visuals for the store, which just opened this week. There’s …
Healthcare Services Provider Uses FWI’s Platform To Relay Real-Time KPIs To Staffers September 15, 2020 by Dave Haynes Denver’s Four Winds Interactive has a case study up online about the work it is doing with HHS, a big Austin-area services provider in healthcare and other sectors that need things like housekeeping and catering. The company jettisoned its older, legacy CMS software for FWI’s a couple of years ago, and uses the new platform …
