Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Randy Pagnan, RP Visuals July 20, 2016 by Super User This week I am speaking with Randy Pagnan, the RP in RP Visual Solutions, an Anaheim, California company that’s in the business of designing and manufacturing the special structures that hold signature digital signage projects in place. In this conversation, done at last month’s InfoComm trade show in Las Vegas, Randy talks about the origins of his company …
Projects: True Religion Goes Digital On Carnaby Street July 14, 2016 by Super User The US denim jeans brand True Religion has opened a new small footprint, digital-heavy store concept on London’s Carnaby Street. The 2,500 sq ft shop, which opened in June, has a concept focused around a denim bar at the front of the shop, and uses digital screens that will showcase how the products are made, an interactive …
Digital Signage Display Market Growing At 8.3% Annual Clip: IHS July 12, 2016 by Super User The research firm IHS has pushed out new data suggesting the global market for digital signage and professional displays is now growing at a compound annual growth rate of 8.3 percent, with 4.4 million units moved last year and 7.7 million expected to move by 2020. This year, sales in what are called public displays were …
Projects: Low-Rent Digital Shelf Talkers At Canadian Tire July 12, 2016 by Super User This is about as low-rent as I’ve seen for digital signs in a retail environment, save for TVs and DVDs/VCRs just plopped on tables or shelves. These are digital photo frame black-taped into coroplast frames, running endlessly repeating product promo loops (with tinny audio) in the cleaning supplies aisle at my local Canadian Tire. What …
Projects: 80 Million Pixels Light Up At Dubai’s New City Walk Market July 12, 2016 by Super User This looks kind of amazing – 12 football fields worth of digital visuals on LED and projection in the new Meraas City Walk market in Dubai. Overall, the Meraas project involves more than 30 LED installations in 21 different formats and nearly 30 high-res projectors totalling over 80 million pixels. It’s easily one of the most ambitious digital …
Projects: London’s Waterloo Station Gets Slimed By Ghosts July 11, 2016 by Super User This is well done – an immersion zone on London’s Waterloo Station promoting the Ghostbusters remake. The campaign broke today in the rail station, launched by Sony Pictures and run via ad-concession owner JCDecaux today. A news release says: The campaign activity is augmented with a variety of global media-firsts debuting at the Waterloo Station spectacular. Oozing, …
Visionect’s Epaper Digital Door Signs Win Red Dot Industrial Design Award July 7, 2016 by Super User The little E Ink meeting room signs marketed by Slovenia’s Visionect are among the winners of a big industrial design award competition, called Red Dot. Visionect’s Joan Meeting Room Assistant won in the Product Design category of the awards. The competition attracted almost 5,200 entries this year, from 57 countries, and a look through the winners has …
Projects: Cafetiero Frames Up Its Digital Menus July 6, 2016 by Super User This is the digital menuboard set-up for a small German cafe chain called CAFETIERO, which is run by the exhibitions and event catering firm The Stockheim Group. The company uses 40-inch displays for menus, and nicely surrounds them in decorative picture frames. The landscape display panels run menu items and portrait screens run promotions. The company is also testing …
16:9 Podcasts: Jennifer Davis, Leyard July 6, 2016 by Super User In this episode, I’m speaking with Jennifer Davis, who is Chief Marketing Officer for Leyard and also the VP of Marketing and Product Strategy for Planar, which is now owned by Leyard. So she’s one busy puppy these days. Jennifer grabbed us a meeting space on the exhibit floor at InfoComm last month, and we …
16:9 Podcasts: Rick Cope, NanoLumens June 29, 2016 by Super User In this episode, I’m speaking with Rick Cope, the founder and CEO of NanoLumens, which makes and markets its own line of unique indoor and outdoor LED displays from its facilities in Atlanta. Rick has a really interesting background, coming out of the US Marines and being in the thick of things during Desert Storm, …
