Projects: Mosaic Video Walls At Stella McCartney Flagships April 18, 2018 by Super User This is the video wall set-up being put in at 11 Stella McCartney flagship stores across Europe, the US and Asia, highlighting the spring and summer collections for the fashion house. UK integrator Freehand put the project together, developing visual interesting mosaics instead of just grouping them in big rectangles in the high street windows. …
LED And The Perils Of Public Reach April 17, 2018 by Super User Medium to fine pitch LED displays can have tremendous visual impact in the right environment, but the thing customers should always bear in mind is that the little surface-mounted LED chips that produce the colored light are fragile – attached to their substrates with microscopic wiring. In plain terms, if they’re within public reach – …
Menu Board Hack – Using Extending Mounts To Compensate For Bad Design April 9, 2018 by Super User Spotted by a regular reader at a food stand in T2 at SFO airport – QSR menu screens with mounts that pull the screen out from the wall recesses when they need to be serviced … except they just left them out. Doesn’t look good, with cables hanging down, tilted screens and so on. And …
Projects: Century-old Garden Center Group Takes (Some Of) Its Messaging Digital April 5, 2018 by Super User This is a straightforward menuboard and messaging boards set-up at Notcutts Garden Centres Ltd – which has 18 individual garden centres across England and has been doing this sort of thing for more than a century. The family-owned company cut over from pure print and some tablet-sized displays manually updated by thumb drive. The company did …
Amazon’s LED-filled Visitor Center Explains Its New Rainforest Office Space In Seattle April 5, 2018 by Super User This is an area called Understory – an LED-filled exhibit and visitor center tied in with The Spheres – three giant intersecting, plant-filled domes that are part of Amazon’s Seattle headquarters building. The domes house more than 40,000 plants from the cloud forest regions of over 30 countries – making for a workplace that feels, …
Here Are The DSE 2018 Project And Creative Award Winners … March 30, 2018 by Super User Here are the winners from this year’s awards program at Digital Signage Expo, announced and handed out Wednesday at a reception. Arts, Entertainment and Recreation McCann Systems for 150 Media Stream Business and Government Services Dreambox Visual Communications for 22nd World Petroleum Congress Official Opening Ceremony Education and Healthcare Forge Media + Design for Holomodor …
Grocery Digital OOH Network Has 1,000-Plus Screens Up At Checkouts, With Plans For As Many As 25,000 March 26, 2018 by Super User Denver-based Ping HD has done a potentially lucrative deal to be the CMS under the hood for an ambitious digital OOH network going into U.S. supermarkets – primarily at the checkout lanes. Adcorp Media Group is putting 10 to 12 32-inch Samsung System on Chip (SoC) displays in stores, with roughly 100 already up and …
16:9 Projects Podcast: A 16K LED Ceiling On Chicago’s Magnificent Mile March 23, 2018 by Super User While shopping at Chicago’s Magnificent Mile mall patrons can look to the ceiling and see a 190 foot long canopy of trees. Or, if they look at another moment, they may see a kaleidoscope of colours or a flock of local birds. That’s because the skylight is actually a high definition LED canvas with content …
Projects: Big LED Greets Arriving Passengers At Atlanta Hartsfield March 22, 2018 by Super User Making a quick stop in Atlanta – which was seriously chilly last night and is again this morning – for the last of eight speaking sessions on Samsung’s Resolution Tour. It had been a while since I more than connected through Hartsfield, so it was interesting to get off that train that runs between terminals …
Chopper Hauls 300-Ft Projection-Mapped Screen Across Dubai Skyline March 20, 2018 by Super User This is the world’s largest aerial projection screen, executed (unsurprisingly) in or more accurately over Dubai recently. It involves a 300-foot fabric aerial screen towed by a Bell 212 Helicopter, while a second Bell 212 projected the video onto the screen, using projection mapping. The content is a visual tribute to Shaikh Zayed, who Wikipedia …
