Is This The Most Digital Signage-Rich Store In Canada? January 4, 2017 by Dave Haynes There’s always some other place with more, but in my travels, I’ve just come back from the most digital signage-rich store I’ve seen to date. The Best Buy at Heartland Town Centre in Mississauga, a city part of the greater Toronto metropolis, has screens everywhere. I wouldn’t say it was incredibly well done. Or cohesive. …
Projects: Taipei’s Bus Stops Get Smart January 4, 2017 by Dave Haynes Much of the buzz about smart city initiatives involving public displays has been around ambitious and expensive standalone info-stations like the 600 or so now operating in New York City, but there’s also stuff that’s quite a bit more pedestrian and easily integrated with existing structures. This is in Taipei – one of some 85 …
NFL’s Vikings Use Transparent OLEDs To Tell History Of Team Uniforms December 23, 2016 by Dave Haynes There were lots of “Ooohs” and “Aaaahs” when Planar started showing its transparent OLED displays about a year ago, but also some less enthused “Ohs” when it became apparent a 55-inch screen cost $15,000. So the question has begged since then – are many end-users buying the things? Answer – yes. There probably hasn’t been …
Superdry’s Berlin Flagship Tries On Gesture-based Virtual Dressing Room December 23, 2016 by Dave Haynes Via Retail Design Blog https://vimeo.com/195329834 I have mixed feelings about an interactive virtual dressing room-ish display set up at the new Berlin flagship store of apparel retailer Superdry. Put together by London-based SeymourPowell, it’s touted as an interactive “smart mirror” but the display is not a mirror and doesn’t use mirror glass … so, umm, it’s not. …
Watch Moment Factory’s 3D-like Experiential Video Wall At Microsoft’s NYC Flagship December 22, 2016 by Dave Haynes You are currently viewing a placeholder content from YouTube. To access the actual content, click the button below. Please note that doing so will share data with third-party providers. More Information Unblock content Accept required service and unblock content Even digital signage nerds miss industry stuff right in front of their eyes. When I was …
Here’s A Pair Of Amazing LED Curtain Ceilings In Chinese Shopping Malls December 22, 2016 by Dave Haynes I’m not quite sure what all these projects are about, or where they are located (other than China), but they look very nice. These are shots supplied by the Shenzhen-based LED manufacture Gtek. While it undoubtedly invests a lot in R&D, they company could stand to invest a couple of bucks in a competent translator – as …
Cool: Italian Sports Retailer Projects Video On Flagship Store’s Fixtures December 16, 2016 by Dave Haynes Via Retail Design Blog This is a cool application of projection in retail – running video right on or through the perforated metal bulkheads of store fixtures. The images are from Game 7 Athletics, an Italian multi-brand sports retailer that has opened a flagship store inside the Arese shopping center in Milan. The store design was …
Fast Fashion Etailer Missguided’s First Physical Shop Has More Than 30 Screens December 16, 2016 by Dave Haynes Spotted in Retail Gazette Here’s a look inside the first bricks and mortar shop for the online fast-fashion brand Missguided – a 20,000 sq. ft. shop in London’s Westfield Stratford shopping mall. It opened about three weeks ago. Integrator Smart LED put in two big 3.9mm high resolution LED walls at the payment areas, and then there are …
Rent The Runway Opens Digitally-Savvy NYC Flagship December 15, 2016 by Dave Haynes The upstart fashion retailer Rent The Runway – which rents designer clothes to women somewhat the way men have rented formal wear for many years – has opened a digitally-savvy flagship store in lower Manhattan. The store on W. 15th Street uses a variety of Samsung displays, including 32-inch touchscreen tandems that cycle through visuals but …
NYC’s Transit Uses Own Subway Kiosks To Market Transit Souvenirs December 13, 2016 by Dave Haynes NYC’s Transit department has taken an interesting approach to monetizing the interactive kiosks on many of its subway platforms – selling souvenir items from its own museum. The New York Transit Museum Holiday Gift Guide takes some of the museum’s more popular items and showcases them for riders as they wait for trains at more than 33 stations …
