Projects: National Sept. 11 Museum Upgrades Digital Signage With BrightSign’s 4K Tech April 10, 2017 by Dave Haynes The National September 11 Memorial & Museum in lower Manhattan recently overhauled its digital signage infrastructure, adding in a stack of BrightSign players. The little purple boxes now power about a third of the museum’s digital signage set-up, feeding informational and interactive content to roughy 30 displays located throughout all seven floors of the subterranean museum. Hal …
Projects: Going From Chalkboards To Digital Saves Bar 180-Plus Labor Hours A Year April 7, 2017 by Dave Haynes A little bar and restaurant down the highway from me in Stratford, Ontario has worked out that putting in digital signage displays has saved them 182 hours in labor costs annually. Until a big reno in 2013, Bentley’s Bar, Inn & Restaurant did their daily menu specials, beer boards and martini boards all by hand …
Projects: Louisiana Wellness Center Spans 12K Video Across Three Walls April 5, 2017 by Dave Haynes The new Education Center at the Wellness Center of Thibodaux Regional, in Thibodaux, Louisiana, greets visitors with a 17-minute video that showcases the native beauty of Louisiana across three 4K video walls. The multi-screen video experience developed by VisionQuest Design & Production of Atlanta features nature scenes, landmarks, plantations, and the Bayou, among other local …
Projects: Check Out This Amazing 13K Immersive Video Wall In Netflix’s New LA HQ April 3, 2017 by Dave Haynes This is pretty amazing – an 80-foot, 13K, fine-pitch LED video wall running custom ambient content in the lobby of the new Netflix building in LA. Vast video walls in lobbies is not all that uncommon anymore among well-heeled companies and property owners, but the content in many to most of those cases is meant …
16:9 Projects Podcast: Jacksonville International Airport March 24, 2017 by Dave Haynes Imagine how upset an airport full of people would be if you weren’t able to deliver them the data they required. Information they need to get to their gate and flight on time and to find their luggage… not to mention emergency messaging On this episode of Projects, Michael Tutton talks to the people responsible …
100,000 Downloads For 16:9 Podcast March 10, 2017 by Dave Haynes The mothership 16:9 podcast is less than a year old but my back-end stats are telling me the 46 episodes to date have been downloaded about 100,000 times in total. When I started, I had no idea what the response might be, but it wasn’t that kind of number. Major podcasts on big issues get …
Projects: Daimler Trucks’ New HQ Includes 59-wide Wrap-Around Video Wall March 10, 2017 by Dave Haynes I’ve written many times how this is a visual, video-driven medium, and who I was puzzled that so few marketing videos are developed to show off projects. They cost real money, sure, but not anywhere as much as many people think. So here’s one that does a very nice job of showing what was done at the …
Projects Podcast Looks At MaxMedia’s Work On AT&T’s San Francisco Flagship March 10, 2017 by Dave Haynes The new 16:9 Projects Podcast takes a deep dive look into the flagship AT&T store at 1 Powell Street in beautiful San Francisco. Project host Michael Tutton has a great, detailed interview with Jeff Doud, the executive creative director at Atlanta-based retail experience firm MaxMedia. It has three “chapters” of content: Entertainment, Local Arts & Culture …
Projects: UK Firm Puts 1.5mm LED Wall In Office Reception Area March 6, 2017 by Dave Haynes High-end retailers evidently aren’t the only end-users opting in on pricey hi-rez direct view LED walls, instead of narrow-bezel LCD walls, in their signature locations. Here’s a commercial property company in the UK putting in a 1.5 mm wall in the reception area of its head office, near Victoria Station in London. Visual communication specialist …
16:9 Projects Podcast: Alex Simionescu Of Float4 On The Amazing Dubai City Walk February 24, 2017 by Dave Haynes For this episode, Projects is looking at Dubai’s City Walk, a new outdoor retail shopping concept that FLOAT4, based in Montreal and New York, has brought to life. City Walk incorporates over 100 million pixels of digital content spread across 30 areas, making it one of the largest retail digital deployments in the world. This …
