Projects: CAA Store Lounge Gets Wrap-around Digital Wall June 11, 2015 by Dave Haynes Maybe five minutes up the road from my world HQ and Live Bait shop is a new Canadian Automobile Association office, with a shiny new, very nice 90-degree video wall. The CAA store just opened this spring in Burlington, and the centrepiece for this new CAA concept store design is a nine-screen wrap-around video wall. There are …
Projects: Toronto’s Scotia Plaza Refreshes Concourse Level With Digital Displays June 11, 2015 by Dave Haynes Toronto’s Scotia Plaza is the head office building for one of the big five banks in Canada, and located on the underground walkway system that inter-connects most of the city’s downtown financial district. On that “PATH” level, the bank has always had a set of TV monitors showing financial news, but the bank has worked …
Projects: YCD, Intel, NEC Team Up With Coke On Cinema Offer June 11, 2015 by Dave Haynes Companies like Christie and Barco have business units and focused efforts going after the cinema lobby business, as do a few software companies, but a consortium is getting help from Coca-Cola to market its blended solution. The global soda brand is working with YCD Multimedia, NEC, Intel and Littlebit Technology on what a signage and experiential offer …
Projects: IKE Turns On Along Denver’s Downtown Pedestrian Mall June 10, 2015 by Dave Haynes The Downtown Denver Partnership has replaced a set of analog MallRide signs along the bustling 16th Street Mall with five big interactive stations that are collectively called IKE – short for Interactive Kiosk Experience. The project, two years in the making, turned on Tuesday. A sixth kiosk is on an adjacent street. The digital screens function as information …
Project: Caesars Windsor Goes Interactive June 9, 2015 by Dave Haynes Here’s a solid sign that STRATACACHE is starting to stitch together its somewhat diverse properties into a cohesive offer to the market – in this case, for gaming. The Dayton, Ohio company goes after big bear with its own software offer, but also has a pair of niche companies – enVu doing interactive projections in …
Projects: Canadian Tire Lights Up 100+ Screens At New Showcase Store June 2, 2015 by Dave Haynes Canadian Tire has opened a giant new store on the south end of Edmonton, on the main road out of town south to Calgary, and loaded it up with a whole bunch of digital. The South Edmonton Common store, which opened Friday, has more than 100 digital screens, including a video wall and an outdoor …
Projects: The Projection-Mapped Dead Sea Scrolls June 1, 2015 by Dave Haynes LA’s California Science Center used a running exhibit on the Dead Sea Scroll as the visual theme for its big fundraising evening, the Discovery Ball – using a massive projection mapping set-up to make a vast screen that had to work its way around things like dangling airplanes. The set-up used 14 Christie projectors and was pulled together by …
Projects: The Wow Wall At NYC Saks May 28, 2015 by Dave Haynes Here’s a great reference case for how graphics, fixturing and displays can be pulled together to drive a lot more impact in retail than a screen on its own can typically do. NYC jeweller David Yurman sells a collection at Saks Fifth Avenue, and has had built a custom-fabricated display as a showcase. The 10-foot high David Yurman “WOW …
Projects: Airport Services Operator Using Digital Signage To Drive Services May 28, 2015 by Dave Haynes Cutter Aviation is the world’s oldest continually family-owned Fixed Base Operator (think airport within an airport) and aviation service company, with ops at eight major airports in California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Texas. The company does a range of services for aircraft owners coming in and going out of these sites, as well as …
Projects: Interactive Retail Flooring Configurator Bridges Signs And Smartphones May 26, 2015 by Dave Haynes This is an interactive flooring selection station for retail that bridges phones and digital signs, from a company called Prendi in Brisbane, Australia. Choices Flooring, Australia’s top flooring retailer, worked with Prendi to develop a custom digital configurator mounted on a purpose-built inspiration wall. The first one was done in 2013 and now the companies are on …
