Projects: A Jersey Island Fort Gets Projection-Mapped October 16, 2014 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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. You are currently viewing a placeholder content from …
Projects: Projection Mapping Transforms Romanian Parliament October 7, 2014 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
Projects: The Gorgeous Linq LED Marquee and Vortex On LV Strip October 2, 2014 by Dave Haynes I forget the name of the grubby hotel(s) that used to be beside the Flamingo on the LV strip, but it’s been replaced by a project called The Linq. I like the little commercial laneway that takes you back to the giant ferris wheel, but I really like the design and quality of the LED …
Projects: Interactive Ad Pods In Bangalore September 26, 2014 by Dave Haynes I have my doubts about Digital OOH executions that require gesture interaction, or what I fondly call Stupid People Tricks. There’s a dynamic at play that limits how many people want to try something that might embarrass them. There’s also the simple question of whether gesture is there for the sake of novelty versus it …
Projects: StubHub Center Goes Digital Display September 23, 2014 by Dave Haynes Here’s a nicely-done video case study (I’ll say it again, video in a visual business is a no-brainer) about the use of digital displays around the concessions at the StubHub Center in greater LA, which is home to the LA Galaxy MLS team, as well as high-level tennis and track cycling. The facility is using …
Projects: Glenfiddich’s Interactive Malt Whisky Bar September 22, 2014 by Dave Haynes The Scottish distiller Glenfiddich extended the experience of a whisky tasting and you of its Speyside plant by setting up a tasting bar inside a century-old library in Bangkok, Thailand. The feature piece is the bar itself, a MultiTaction display from Finland’s MultiTouch. Choose a particular dram of whisky, say a 15-year-old, and put the …
