Projects: East-Central China Mall Gets Massive Flying LED Ribbon December 20, 2015 by Dave Haynes A new retail project in Zhengzhou, in the east-central part of China, ups the game on the idea of filling the ceiling of a large area with an LED display. Called the Flying Ribbon, and located in the city’s HuiYi Times Square commercial complex, the project is 1,100 square metres of LED curtain that floats over …
Projects: LA DIY Florist Uses Digital Signage To Amplify Customer Experiences December 17, 2015 by Dave Haynes People who go into one of the two Los Angeles locations of Fleurish can design and build their own flower arrangements in what is billed as the first ever design-it-yourself flower studio. The stores get everything from individuals, to classes, and all the way to bachelorette parties (pre-cocktails, I assume). The stores use digital signage in a …
Projects: Montreal’s Arts District Adds More Projection-Mapped Buildings, Interactive Seesaws December 10, 2015 by Dave Haynes The arts quarter of the amazing city of Montreal has been a visual treat for a few years, owing to various temporary and permanent installations that use lighting and projection. But that gets amped up starting tonight, with a program that runs through the end of January. Called Impulse, the winter installation sees several buildings transformed …
Projects: Illinois Church Lights Up Simple, Logical, Nice Digital Signage Network December 9, 2015 by Dave Haynes Here’s a great example of how digital signage projects – no matter how modest – can succeed because the people or person behind it exercised solid thinking and common sense, and coupled that with some creative talent. I saw a Tweet about a church using Rise Vision’s open source content management platform and Raspberry Pi …
Projects: Vodafone Goes Big On Digital Signage Down Under December 9, 2015 by Dave Haynes Mobile network operator Vodafone’s Australian wing has gone big on digital signage in its retail stores, switching on a national network that will exceed more than 1,200 screens before the year is out. Vodafone Hutchison Australia’s business case for integrating digital into the store design was a reduction of its dependencies on printed in-store material, and …
Projects: Interactive Screen Puts Augmented Reality Layer In Holiday Postcards December 7, 2015 by Dave Haynes This is a nicely targeted and executed interactive application aimed at children and their parents shopping this season at the Indooroopilly Shopping Centre in Brisbane, Australia. Customers entering a Christmas interaction zone at the mall are greeted on a screen by various Christmas characters, such as Santa, a reindeer and a snowman. Sensors in the setting …
Projects: 60 Small Panels Make One Big Wall December 3, 2015 by Dave Haynes On my way back from Dubai this past weekend I had a layover in Frankfurt, VERY early in the morning. It was enough time to take a 20-minute train into the city and have a look around. I discovered a few things: 1 – If you don’t know the city, you can walk straight out …
Projects: A 1-Day, 108-Panel, Transforming Video Wall For TV Network Upfront December 3, 2015 by Dave Haynes I don’t tend to write about temporary projects or plain old video walls, but a video wall put in place for Canadian broadcaster CTV’s upfront (programming showcase for advertisers and media) went very big, and shows what is possible, The Bell Media/CTV’s Upfront in June 2015 used one of the largest video walls ever built in North …
Projects: Cisco Revamps Its Customer Experience Center December 1, 2015 by Dave Haynes Here’s a couple of visuals from the recently renovated Cisco Customer Experience Center in Silicon Valley, put together by San Jose-based signage-centric agency Array Interactive, Array developed the idea, design and experience in partnership with Cisco’s global Service Provider Marketing and Briefing Program Management teams. The set-up, launched a few weeks ago, includes a 3×2 video …
Dubai Office Block Borrows From Sports World For Displays November 30, 2015 by Dave Haynes Nick Georgetti from the UAE region solutions provider 2point0 Concepts turned into something of a tour guide for me during my time last week in Dubai. One of the stops was a walk around the buildings – with their often over-the-top designs – in the city’s financial hub. He pointed out how one developer was using …
