Projects: Breeze Center Mall In Taipei October 27, 2014 by Super User One of the things that I found out about tech companies in Taiwan, while there, is that they can get a lot more involved in projects than they might in other parts of the world. VIA Technologies, much more known for CPUs and boards and small PCs, worked with the owners of a fashion district …
Projects: AB Citadele Bankas in Lithuania October 27, 2014 by Super User AB Citadele bankas in Lithuania has started deploying a network in its branches, using six displays inside and another 2 high-bright panels in street-facing windows. The set-up uses Samsung’s Smart Signage pages and signagelive as the CMS, with the project pulled together and deployed by a firm called Hansab. The screens on walls and in windows …
Projects: Vaughan Mills Mall Plugs In Digital Lounge October 24, 2014 by Super User The giant Vaughan Mills shopping mall on the northern fringes of metro Toronto got bigger this week, with a store and footprint expansion that included a new digital lounge area put together by Cineplex Digital Solutions. The lounge area is intended as a branded, experiential rest area with soft seating, Wi-Fi and a cluster of …
Projects: 4K Digital Posters On Toronto Streets October 20, 2014 by Super User Astral Out-of-Home, which is owned by Canadian communications giant Bell Media, is putting 40 new digital transit shelters on downtown Toronto streets this fall – all equipped with 84-inch LCD screens capable of 4K HD. The shelters and enclosures were designed by Kramer Design Associates, and will be installed in strategic locations throughout downtown Toronto. …
Projects: A Jersey Island Fort Gets Projection-Mapped October 16, 2014 by Super User St. Aubin’s Fort is an old fort on an islet off the main island of Jersey, one of the little UK-related islands in the English Channel. You can walk out to the fort on a causeway when the tide is low, but it’s a teeny island at high tide. As part of a film fest …
Projects: Calvin Klein Interactive Denim Shopping Assistant October 15, 2014 by Super User NYC-based Creative Realities, has deployed what has been dubbed a Calvin Klein Interactive Denim Shopping Assistant touch screen set-up at Macy’s Herald Square store in New York, with plans to put it in another 18 stores. Calvin Klein, says a news release, is employing interactive touch display and sales assistance applications developed by Creative Realities to support …
Projects: Eurostar Business Lounge, Brussels October 15, 2014 by Super User Here’s a nice team effort on the Eurostar (rail) business class passenger lounge at the Brussels station. Project involves integrator Solutions AV and the design agency The One Off, and the screens are running signagelive, pulling departure data from a system and using HTML5 to show it. #Eurostar asked us to create a #digital presence …
Projects: Projection Mapping Transforms Romanian Parliament October 7, 2014 by Super User I love projection mapping. Even wrote a book about it. This is the Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest, Romania, which is second only to the Pentagon in size when it comes to the world’s largest administrative buildings. To celebrate the 555th anniversary of the capital city, the 23,000 sq. metre facade of the …
Projects: Stanford 60-Seat Classroom Gets Wall-Eating 192-MicroTiles Array October 6, 2014 by Super User Here’s a 32-unit wide by 6 high wall of Christie MicroTiles in a 60-seat, yup, classroom at Stanford University. Yes, that’s 192 Tiles eating pretty much a whole wall in the Wallenberg Hall, which is used for journalism and social sciences classes, as well as some special events. Wow. Reports Christie: Opened in 2002, the Wallenberg …
Projects: Chinese Mall Uses LEDs To Wrap Center Court Elevator Tower October 6, 2014 by Super User There have been a couple of instances recently where I suggested a workaround on a challenging video display install might be a low-rez LED curtain wall. I’ve seen them on the sides of buildings and in windows and when the media choice is right, it can work. Here’s a good example of that: a shopping …
