DSF Toronto’s Breakfast Event Pulls Some 60 Attendees For Digital In Dining June 6, 2019 by Dave Haynes The Toronto chapter of the Digital Signage Federation had its second breakfast event this morning, focused on Digital In Dining. Here’s the word from organizer and fellow DSF board member Kelly Smith: We had a fantastic attendance (more than 60 people in the room), and the feedback I received afterwards was overwhelmingly positive. The topic, …
SEGD Toronto Plans June 27th Micro-Conference About Digital Design June 4, 2019 by Dave Haynes The Toronto chapter of theSociety for Experiential Graphic Design (SEGD) is running a micro-conference in that city on June 27th – talking about digital applications in physical spaces. The speakers: Alexandre Simionescu Principal at Float4, Montreal Bryan Meszaros CEO & Founder of Open Eye Global / SEGD President, New York Laurence Roberts Principal / Creative Director / Head …
DSF Toronto Plans June 6th Mixer Based On Digital In Dining May 23, 2019 by Dave Haynes Capital Networks’ Kelly Smith and the Toronto chapter of the Digital Signage Federation have organized the second in what is planned as a running series of breakfast mixers. The June 6th event is focused on Digital In Dining, and features people from McDonalds and Aramark, as well as iGotcha Media. The event is out in …
Pix And Vids From SID Display Week 2019 May 16, 2019 by Dave Haynes If you don’t use Linkedin much, here’s the many things I’ve posted over there in the last few days – embedded here as there are pix and short videos. Notice this one — the display film is damaged
OLED Is A Thing, And Other Thoughts From SID Display Week May 15, 2019 by Dave Haynes I pulled the ripcord this afternoon after 2.5+ days at Display Week. My brain hurt, and the symposium sessions in the afternoon looked terrifyingly technical. It does not help that English is not the first language of many/most of the technical presenters – so you get a Japanese guy, an engineer or researcher, doing a …
Day Two Impressions From SID Display Week May 15, 2019 by Dave Haynes Random insights, so far, from SID Display Week in San Jose, CA: The display industry is slowing down, with compounded annual growth expected to sit at around 4% for next eight or nine years: Touch Display Report forecast; LCD sales will be flat-ish, over that time, but OLED sales will grow steadily: also from Touch …
Trying To Nerd Out, And Mostly Failing, At Display Week May 13, 2019 by Dave Haynes The Society for Information Display is a non-profit group run by display industry people, and it holds an annual trade show and conference that pulls in many to most of the top-level display engineers in that business. Display Week, as the event is called, is this week in San Jose, CA, and I am attending …
Seattle DSF Mixer Gets The Understory On Amazon’s Spheres May 9, 2019 by Dave Haynes It took going to Seattle to remember and realize a few things about the city and region. First, there are some really big, impactful companies out here – like Amazon, Microsoft, Costco, Boeing and a little coffee chain called Starbucks. Second, there’s more of a signage ecosystem than is maybe obvious. I am in Seattle …
San Francisco Venue Using Projection Mapping To Create Immersive Dining Experience May 2, 2019 by Dave Haynes Projection-mapping seems to be finding its way, more and more, to full-time or extended run indoor projects that are about entertainment and experience. This is F.E.A.S.T – an immersive and interactive dining experience at a San Francisco entertainment, arts and events venue called Onedome. It is a dining experience that combines interactive digital art, music, a …
LG Announces Dates For Display Tech Road Shows Across US May 1, 2019 by Dave Haynes LG has announced the schedule for its annual TechTour, with the first roving road show date set for two weeks in Washington, DC. The electronics giant has events planned for: May 14 – Washington, DC July 24 – Dallas Aug. 22 – Orange County, CA Sept. 12 – San Jose, CA Sept. 26 – Chicago …
