Projects: Poland’s Posnania Lights Up Ambitious Digital Sign Program November 30, 2016 by Dave Haynes Pretty much all the information is in Polish, and translate tools can only do so much, but what’s evident in any language is that this is a very impressive digital project at a high-end shopping mall in west-central Poland. The mall is called Posnania and is in the city of Poznan. There are some 100 …
Projects: UK Butcher Orders Up Menu Boards November 30, 2016 by Dave Haynes Digital menu boards are now very common in the quick service restaurant sector, but far less so at the many other kinds of order counters out there – like at butcher shops. Tariq Halal Meats is one of the larger Halal meat specialists in the UK and Europe, and has started converting its signs behind the counter …
Toronto’s Main Airport Embeds Departures Screens In Giant Nature Sculpture November 28, 2016 by Dave Haynes It’s a bit weird that while I am in and out of Toronto’s Pearson International Airport a lot, it’s rare that I fly within Canada and see the domestic side of Terminal 1 – which now has a huge flower-like sculpture that doubles as departures screens. I’d vaguely heard about this thing, but it wasn’t …
Does The World Need Interactive Gas Pumps? Clue: No November 23, 2016 by Dave Haynes Via Adweek Is the two to three minutes you spend at a gas pump a tedious, endless ordeal, or two to three minutes you spend absently looking around as the tank fills up? For me, it’s the latter. I survive, somehow. But BP thinks differently, and has started testing an interactive gas pump called Miles, …
How About A Huge, Fine-Pitch LED Video Wall … In Your Dining Room? November 21, 2016 by Dave Haynes This is in somebody’s house. Yeah. It’s a 21 foot wide wide by 11 foot tall LED video wall made up of 192 1.6mm Planar DirectLight LED modules, and is used as video art and, I guess, to play Dark Souls III and watch Duck Dynasty. The home is in Northern California and was installed with this …
Projects: New NYC Museum Exhibit Goes Heavy On Digital To Tell City’s Story November 17, 2016 by Dave Haynes Via Untapped Cities There is a ton of really well executed tech in a new permanent exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York, which opens tomorrow in guess where. The digital side of the exhibit was put together by Local Projects, which among other jobs did the experiential digital for the 9-11 …
Nike Says It’s Transforming Sports Retail With New SOHO Store November 16, 2016 by Dave Haynes Nike just opened a new store in New York City’s Soho neighborhood that really pushes the idea of experiential retail – using massive digital visuals and tapping into sensors for real-time feedback. Nike Soho is a five-storey, multi-sport, 55,000-square-foot store at 529 Broadway at Spring Street. I THINK I tried to go in to it last …
Projects: Instagram Lights Up New HQ With Lobby Displays November 15, 2016 by Dave Haynes Via Business Insider Here’s a peek inside Instagram’s recently opened new offices in Silicon Valley, up the road from the main offices of its masters, Facebook. As you can see from the main image, the design by Gensler went big on photos in large digital display clusters in the lobby. The company is also using …
Maybe Big Indoor LED Canvases Don’t Need To Have Crazy-Fine Pixel Pitches? November 9, 2016 by Dave Haynes I’m in New York for the InfoComm Connections conference today, and I suspect it will be a very interesting day to be in the city, given the events of last night. I had a chance Tuesday to do a big walk around to look at a bunch of installations, and the things that struck me are …
Cineplex Digital Media Rolling Out Digital OOH Display Network in Canada’s Ivanhoe Cambridge Malls November 7, 2016 by Dave Haynes Cineplex Digital Media has announced it won an RFP process to install, maintain and operate a digital OOH display network at 21 Ivanhoé Cambridge shopping centres across Canada. The network involves nearly 230 digital displays at Ivanhoé Cambridge mall properties across Canada. The display solution is a combination of double-sided 86-inch “Floor Media” displays, as well as displays on …
