Heading Back To LV April 2, 2013 by Super User It has been a whole month, I think, since I’ve had to flash my passport and empty my pockets at an airport – but that all changes tomorrow. Back to Las Vegas, which was my last trip. I am going to the International Sign Association trade show – called SignExpo – at the Mandalay Bay. …
Screach Does Reset, New Investment Focused On Interactive Pub/Bar TV April 2, 2013 by Super User The guys at Screach have raised some $2.5 million in new operating capital and changed up the business model, focusing on being an interactive pub entertainment solution. ScreachTV, as it is branded, allows pubs to fill the dead space on their TVs (between things like Premier League and rugby matches) by creating their own personal, …
Projects: Scotiabank’s Scattered Sweep Of MicroTiles At Yorkdale April 1, 2013 by Super User I already thought the digital display work at Scotiabank’s branch at Yorkdale mall (a very high-end shopping centre in Toronto) was pretty nice, but a new element that was still just in planning when I was last through there is now up and running. There are 80 MicroTiles in an abstract, textured sweep on the …
Canada Launches Start-Up Visa To Attract Entrepreneurs Through Fast-Tracked Residency April 1, 2013 by Super User There’s been lots of chatter in the last 2-3 years about the need change immigration laws to attract tech entrepreneurs and keep brilliant young minds in North America after they finish college in the US or Canada. There’s hasn’t been much progress in gridlocked Washington, but a new program has started today in Canada that …
DPAA Adds Elevate, Gloss and enVu April 1, 2013 by Super User The Digital Place-based Advertising Association (DPAA) has added three more members to its roster – elevate DIGITAL, enVu and Gloss Media. elevate DIGITAL does interactive displays. enVu does the interactive projections on the floor thing in US malls. Gloss Media does nicer hair and nail salons, though the release <commence eye-rolling> says it “offers both …
Projects: Virtual Train Windows In Madrid Bar March 29, 2013 by Super User This is brilliant. Jeff Wismer of Cineplex Digital tweeted about a coffee shop/bar in Madrid, Spain that has taken on the look of a passenger rail cabin, all the way down to a set of digital cabin windows that show a virtual landscape rolling by. The Passenger bar was put together by art designer Parolio, …
Projects: 170 Sq. Ft. Of Sign At DC Convention Hall March 28, 2013 by Super User NanoLumens now has a very large, very prominent showpiece install in the US Capitol it send potential clients over to see. The Atlanta-based company is making noise about a new 7.5 foot high by 23 foot wide LED panel above one of the main hall entryways at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington …
ComQi Tweaks Executive Team; Titles March 28, 2013 by Super User There have been all kinds of stories drifting around lately about a big shakeup involving ComQi, but the actual story isn’t all that seismic. Ajay Chowdhury is shifting from CEO to Executive Chairman of the company (still a full-time gig), while COO/CFO Ifti Ifhar (pictured on right) becomes CEO. Stu Armstrong gets a new handle as …
Pattison Lights Up New LRT Platform Network In Edmonton March 27, 2013 by Super User Love the voiceover from the talent who apparently just came from a monster truck/demolition derby ad voiceover session ;-] Anyway, Pattison Outdoor Advertising has launched LRT-TV in oil and gas-rich boomtown Edmonton, Alberta (fascinating tidbit: I was born there in the late 1700s). The Digital OOH network is running at 10 light rail transit platforms …
Job Posts You Never Used To See March 27, 2013 by Super User A LinkedIn request pulled me into that site just now, and I caught on a sidebar a couple of intriguing jobs posts for gigs with big Canadian retailers. It’s only been really recently – and I mean really recently – that I have ever noticed jobs that specifically talked about managing in-store digital. This one …
