See This Suburban Seoul Mall’s Vast Investment In Indoor LED And Content October 23, 2017 by Dave Haynes This is a new shopping mall in South Korea, in the suburbs of megacity Seoul. There is a massive digital display experience in the centre court area that includes a very tall LED monolith and curvy LED ribbons lining the mezzanine overlook. I can’t find much about the digital piece that’s in English, other than …
Digital Signage Awards Entry Deadline is Oct. 31st October 18, 2017 by Dave Haynes A reminder that entries close at the end of the month for the Digital Signage Awards, a global contest that sifts through and singles out the best work across a bunch of varied categories. Sixteen:Nine is media sponsor/partner in the awards, which are organized and managed by a UK company. As noted in the past, I’m …
The New Guinness Brewing Floor Experience In Dublin Looks Amazing October 18, 2017 by Dave Haynes Via Retail Design Blog Diageo hired the creative shop Love to design a new brewing floor experience at the storehouse of the famed Guinness brewery in Dublin, Ireland. The tasting at the end is worth the trip alone, but the new visitor experience looks pretty amazing, using video walls, display clusters and some interactive tablet …
Whole Facade Of Heathrow Superdry Shop Is LED October 12, 2017 by Dave Haynes I don’t think I’ve seen anything quite like this – a store facade in a shopping mall that is all LED, front and sides. This is the new Superdry shop at London Heathrow terminal 3 – so it’s airport retail. Only information I have is that it opened in July and is “doing well,” reports …
Toronto’s New Air Jordan Store Includes Projections, Fine Pitch Interactive LED Walls October 11, 2017 by Dave Haynes This is the new Air Jordan location on Toronto’s Yonge Street – a three-level retail space that uses fine-pitch LED video walls and window projections. The store has an underground kids-only concourse and an upper athletic training facility, as well as a main, street-level retail space. To immerse guests on every floor, Nike hired local …
UNESCO Heritage Site’s Ancient Pyramids Projection-Mapped For 45-Minute Shows October 10, 2017 by Dave Haynes The ancient structures at a UNESCO-designated World Heritage Site will be lit up next month by 19 45,000 lumens projectors for a special projection mapping show. The Nocturnal Experience in Teotihuacan – a projection-mapping experience at the world-famous site – was done in early 2016 and is being revived in collaboration with the Tourism Department …
Car Grilles Scanned In Real-Time For Targeted Digital OOH Film Promo October 10, 2017 by Dave Haynes The video is almost as silly and overdone as a Michael Bay movie, but if you can put up with all the extraneous stuff you will see how Lamar used vehicle recognition technology to promote the latest Transformers movie this summer. To promote the release of Transformers: The Last Knight, ahead of its nationwide release in …
Projects: IKEA’s New Sheffield Store Includes Tidy Digital Menu And Promo System October 10, 2017 by Dave Haynes This is the tidy set of menu displays IKEA has at its food service counter in the newly opened store in Sheffield, UK. The displays were put in by Beaver Group and run that solutions provider’s “signage.ninja” software, which I THINK is a front-end gateway with Scala under the hood. Continuing the nationwide rollout with …
New Lloyds Flagship Branch Reimagines High Street Banking In UK October 6, 2017 by Dave Haynes UK-based Lloyds Bank has just opened a new flagship branch in Manchester – full of tech and customer comforts – that’s positioned as a re-imagined approach to high street banking. The branch has a coffee shop, a dedicated business hub aimed at attracting the start-up culture, free WiFi, and a lot of screens (including tabletop …
Women’s Lifestyle Publisher Marie Claire Opens Tech-Filled Next Big Thing Pop-up Shop In NYC September 28, 2017 by Dave Haynes In a slightly odd twist, the women’s fashion and beauty publisher Marie Claire has teamed up with Mastercard to open a pop-up shop in New York this fall, called The Next Big Thing Concept Shop because it features what’s perceived as whiz-bang interactive retailing technology. The store at 120 Wooster in Soho, open until the …
