Spanish Travel Guide Projection Maps Country’s Cuisine At Launch Party November 4, 2016 by Dave Haynes We’ve seen lots of great example of projection mapping on grand scales – on buildings and monuments – but nowhere nears as many that go indoors and use small, much more intimate settings to play with visuals. Here’s a great one, though, from the 2016 launch party this summer of the latest version of Repsol, …
80 Million Experiential Pixels Now Lit Up At Dubai Outdoor Retail Complex October 28, 2016 by Dave Haynes The Society For Experiential Graphic Design has its annual xLab conference on even as I type this, but I’m back at HQ and missing the event (but not missing flying out of NYC on a Friday evening … ugh). I did, however, take in a pre-conference event while still in the city Thursday afternoon – …
E Ink Displays And RFID Cards Guide, Educate Visitors At Estonian National Museum October 19, 2016 by Dave Haynes The Estonian National Museum is using a clever mix of electronic ink displays and RFID to allow visitors to learn about Estonian culture in their preferred language. The museum has put in more than 600 E Ink displays – from Kindle-sized up to 32-inch units – to use for visitor information. Each display application interacts with RFID tickets, …
Projects: National WWII Museum Issues Digital Dog Tags October 17, 2016 by Dave Haynes I was in New Orleans for a few days last week, and felt lucky to have the time to tour the National World War Two Museum that has become a huge attraction in that city. It has been around for a few years , and recently added some new digital wrinkles I thought were worth sharing. …
Pic: Here’s A Shot Of That Almost-Endless Video Wall At Orlando Airport September 29, 2016 by Dave Haynes I wrote yesterday about the 1,500+ foot, one by very many video wall put in at Orlando’s airport, behind the airline counters/ This a pic from one of the vendors as it was going up. Won’t say who just in case that violates some PR agreement. In two words: very nice.
AT&T’s New San Francisco Flagship Includes Giant “Fluid Art” Digital Bulkhead September 28, 2016 by Dave Haynes The new store, at 1 Powell Street, is next to the popular trolley cable car turnaround area. It is AT&T’s largest retail store in the U.S., and will serve as the company’s West Coast flagship. This historic San Francisco building, built in 1908, has been restored back to its original Baroque architectural design. The store design and merchandising elements draft …
Orlando Airport Installing 1,561-foot Continuous Video Wall At Airline Counters September 28, 2016 by Dave Haynes Orlando International Airport is in the process of putting in some 700 55-inch ultra-thin-bezel videowall displays in the departures area behind airline counters to create a continuous 1,561-foot digital display wall. The airport authority is putting another 350 in double-sided overhead videowalls intended for wayfinding from the check-in areas to concessions and other services leading to security checkpoints, …
Projects: Giant Digital “StoryWall” Fills Suburban LA Cinema September 26, 2016 by Dave Haynes Cinema lobbies continue to one of the hotter environments for ambitious, big budget signature displays – with the latest evidence of that a 96-panel “StoryWall” at the ArcLight Cinemas in Sherman Oaks, California. The beast is about 50-feet wide and 15-feet high, and runs a matrix of movie posters or full-wide visuals about a specific …
Projects: Amazing Motion-Sensing LED Lobby In DC September 24, 2016 by Dave Haynes One of the speakers at the Four Winds’ conference in Denver Friday morning was referencing content strategy and design, and showed work done at the Terrell Place building in Washington, DC. Kind of amazing work. The building, actually six conjoined buildings, got a lobby refresh that turned the street-facing walls and elevator lobby into a …
Projects: Wells Fargo’s Ambient LED Columns In Denver September 24, 2016 by Dave Haynes I had a chance to nip into the Wells Fargo bank tower in downtown Denver this afternoon before heading to the airport for the (seriously, repeatedly delayed … yippee) flight back to my socialist paradise. If you recall, this is the big set of LED strips – done a bit like picket fence boards – that …
