16:9 Projects Podcast: Allied Reit – Mirmir’s Well June 22, 2017 by Danica Trapara Every year, Toronto hosts “Scotiabank Nuit Blanche” an overnight art event that takes place across the entire city. In 2015, SapientNitro (now SapientRazorfish) had just moved into their new offices and worked with their landlord, Allied Reit, to come up with something interesting for the lobby of the building. The result: Mimir’s Well, a very …
Projects: 700-Plus Wide Band Of LCDs At Orlando’s Airport June 22, 2017 by Super User One of the InfoComm Big Canvas sessions I put together last week in Orlando took an in-depth look at the massive video wall steadily being put in place at Orlando’s primary airport. We had Seattle’s Synect, which did the content, RP Visuals, which did the mount structure, and LG, which won the deal for 700 …
Projects: 100 Square Metres OF LED In Lithuanian Cinema Lobby June 19, 2017 by Super User This is the Forum cinema in Kaunas, Lithuania, which has invested in a big way in 3.9mm pitch LED screens and ambient content around the theatre’s lobby. The set-up was designed and installed by the Italian firm MacroPix. The total resolution is 4K plus and there is about 100 square metres of digital on the walls. …
Some 100 Projectors Used For Immersive Art Experience In Provence June 18, 2017 by Super User This is a pretty fantastic example of projection mapping done indoors – about 100 video projectors generating images over an area of more than 7,000 sq.m., including the floor, at the Carrières de Lumières, an immersive art gallery in Provence, France. The exhibition runs until January 2018, celebrating the art of Bosch, Brueghel and Arcimboldo. The exhibit …
16:9 Projects Podcast: Intersection’s CSO On The Massive LinkNYC Smart City Rollout June 2, 2017 by Danica Trapara This episode we’re speaking with Dave Etherington, who is CSO of Intersection, one of the companies responsible for LinkNYC. In 2014, New York City set out to overhaul their payphone infrastructure. The result is LinkNYC, which provides anyone in the city with free phone calls to anywhere in the U.S., free wifi, local information and some …
Projects: UK Theatre Lights Up Big Stretched Displays At Entryway June 1, 2017 by Super User Here’s an example of how those stretched 86-inch LG LCD panels are being used away from trade show booths and in the real world – a pair of them gracing the entryway to a refurbished theatre in Dorset, England. The screens are running custom promotional content for the theatre, including advertising for productions, vendors and show …
Why Did They Do This? May 30, 2017 by Super User A Shenzhen company called Nexnovo sent me pix, tech details and a video about a transparent LED mesh wall on the corner of a building in Tokyo, and I am scratching my head wondering why the job was done like this. The building owner, or someone, had custom versions of the mesh cut so they would …
Canada’s PharmaChoice Rolls Out Advice For Life Digital Signage Network In Stores May 29, 2017 by Super User Canada’s second-largest independent pharmacy banner PharmaChoice is going ahead with plans for a national rollout of an in-store digital signage network, branded as the Advice for Life Network. The screens are primarily in place to deliver a mix of PharmaChoice-sponsored healthy tips for their customers, and local content specific to each location. There will also …
Projects: Check Out This Nice 2 By 5 Elevator Lobby Video Wall at Westgate Las Vegas May 25, 2017 by Super User The Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino, what you may know as the old Las Vegas Hilton right next to the convention center, has put some serious money into sprucing the place up, including the digital displays. There are more than 150 digital signage displays on the property, including custom LED screens, 4K video walls, HD …
Marjiuana Dispensaries Pay For Digital Signage Set-Up In One Month Of Upsells May 25, 2017 by Super User Politics and laws are in a bit of “who knows what’s gonna happen next?” state these days in the U.S., but assuming states that decriminalized marijuana are not shut down federally, this is a big growth area for a bunch of industries – including digital signage. You have shops selling a lot of stuff over a …
