Screenfeed Adds Automated Twitter And Google Trends Feeds To Subscription Options September 8, 2020 by Dave Haynes The folks at Minneapolis-based subscription content store Screenfeed are rolling out a pair of new services today that visualize trending topics for Google and Twitter. The new Google and Twitter Trends tap into what people are thinking and talking about globally, aimed at people “of all ages and demographics that have a desire to stay …
Huge Rocket On Launchpad Projection-Mapped To Celebrate Private Space Program August 31, 2020 by Dave Haynes Projection-mapping has been done on all kinds of things – including a retired Space Shuttle and D.C.’s obelisk – but this is the first time I think I have seen a working rocket used as a display canvas. Six Christie laser projectors were sync’d and blended by PaintScaping and Nationwide Video to put visuals on …
How To Do Wayfinding Design For Stress-Filled Environments, In Stress-Filled Times August 28, 2020 by Dave Haynes The big architectural and experiential design firm NBBJ has developed an interesting paper that looks at signage as an important means of de-stressing visits to medical centers by people who are worried they’ve picked up COVID-19. “Studies show high levels of the stress hormone, cortisol, can decrease memory and critical thinking skills,” says a team …
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 …
Subtle Animations Appear From The Wood Lobby Wall At NYC Cancer Care Center August 10, 2020 by Dave Haynes One of the most powerful effects in digital signage jobs is to add the visuals in unexpected places and ways. This is a lobby at the new David H. Koch Center for Cancer Care at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. Designed by the NYC agency C&G Partners, the lobby’s welcome wall is …
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 …
