Projects: 60 Small Panels Make One Big Wall December 3, 2015 by Super User 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 Super User 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 Super User 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 Super User 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 …
Dubal Mall Snapshots November 25, 2015 by Super User I went walkies Tuesday in a couple of Dubai mega-jumbo-Godzilla malls, guided by Nick Giorgetti of 2.0 Concepts, and took a buncha photos of signage installs. Back at the malls tomorrow. More pix to follow.
Projects: Apple Goes Very Big With LED In New Dubai Store November 25, 2015 by Super User I’ve written in the past about how Apple’s much-imitated minimalist store design has always been, at least to me, curiously light on digital signage. A typical store has screens, but those screens are accents. Very different story at Dubai’s Mall of the Emirates, which has a giant, fine pixel pitch LED wall that dominates the …
Projects: 14 Digital Experiences In Giant Nebraska Furniture Mart November 20, 2015 by Super User Here’s a look inside at the digital signage installed in the giant Nebraska Furniture Mart store that opened in the Dallas-Fort Worth area earlier this year. Premier Mounts and Reflect have pushed out a press release about the installation that sees “14 unique digital experiences for nearly 60 displays throughout the store.” Sounds like a lot, …
Projects: NFL’s Patriots Add Interactive LED Towers To Game-Day Experience November 19, 2015 by Super User The Kraft Group, the family-owned company that owns Gillette Stadium and the New England Patriots, the NFL team that plays out of there, have done a technology upgrade around the facility that includes a set of striking, double-sided LED video columns at an attached fan attraction. The Hall at Patriot Place has four 22-feet-tall-by-4.5-feet-wide columns designed to …
Projects: Sport Chek Opens Pair Of Tech-Heavy Flagship Stores November 19, 2015 by Super User Canadian retailer Sport Chek, which sells guess what, has opened a pair of tech-filled flagship stores in Yorkdale Shopping Centre and Square One Shopping Centre, two of the largest and busiest malls in Canada. They are about 25 minutes, to three days, away from each other, depending on greater Toronto traffic. Like an earlier flagship in …
Projects: Start-up Testing Virtual Dressing Room Mirror At Polo NYC Flagship November 18, 2015 by Super User Via TechCrunch … A San Francisco-based, VC-funded startup called Oak Labs is running a trial on a slick virtual mirror in the dressing room of the Ralph Lauren Polo NYC flagship store on Fifth Avenue in New York. Instead of the oft-touted augmented reality parlor trick – stand here and we’ll let you virtually try on clothes …
