Projects: GTE Financial’s Tampa Showcase Branch February 25, 2014 by Super User The Florida financial cooperative GTE Financial has redesigned a main location in downtown Tampa that includes a giant, curved indoor LED banner and pile of other tech. “The new space layout is designed to be more open, eliminate teller lines, and offer visitors an engaging and interactive retail-like experience,” says Mandy Zurbrick, VP of Marketing …
Projects: Creighton University’s Finance Lab February 25, 2014 by Super User Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska has created a real-world trading environment, called the Finance Lab, that’s outfitted with a 42-foot premium LED ticker display, a 6-zone world clock, and three 110-inch video walls, one of them fully interactive. The lab was pulled together by solutions provider Rise Display, based in Shawnee Mission, KS. “Business schools recognize that …
Well Of Course People Buy More Beer When They Get Weather Reports February 20, 2014 by Super User Spotted by a reader at a convenience store in Gatineau, Quebec (near Ottawa). Anheuser-Busch InBev has had these in Canada for a few years now, but I made the silly assumption they were put in place to move boxes of beer. Apparently the plan is also to give shoppers sports score and tell tell them what …
What A Digital Sign At 10 Feet Is Good For … February 17, 2014 by Super User New restaurant at Toronto Pearson Airport. All it takes is common sense, folks.
DSE 2014 Awards: The Winning Apex Projects February 15, 2014 by Super User Earlier this week at Digital Signage Expo the Apex & Content Awards were handed out at the annual dinner. What’s impressive this year was the variety of entrants and winners. Whereas there have been some past winners who got awards seemingly because they were among a handful of entrants, it looks like a LOT of different …
Projects: 800 Screens, 220 Content Channels, One SportChek Flagship Store February 6, 2014 by Super User The Canadian sporting goods retailer Sport Chek has opened an 80,000 sq. ft. store in the monster West Edmonton Mall in Edmonton, Alberta that has a somewhat staggering 250 PCs driving 470 screens, plus a bunch of tablets and projections. The store has: 800 screens populated by 220 channels that display product images and deals, store-wide …
Projects: Dayton High School Gets Private Donation Of $100K In NanoLumens Displays February 4, 2014 by Super User Cool story. Chaminade-Julienne High School in Dayton, OH just got $100K in NanoLumens screens donated and installed for its gymnasium. Jeff Olich, president of Total Network Technologies, which installed the two 6mm pitch NanoLumens NanoSlim LED displays, said the person making the donation wanted to give the school an amazing way to showcase students’ athletic achievements …
Wow Factor Takes A Team February 4, 2014 by Stephanie Gutnik Guest Post: Sean James, Managed Services, Christie My work puts me in the middle of a lot of tremendous visual projects designed to grab attention, communicate a message, and deliver an experience. If there’s a common thread among all of those projects, it’s the team approach used from the idea stage all the way through …
Projects: Macy’s Gets Projection-Mapped For Super Bowl January 31, 2014 by Super User It’s Super Bowl week in New York, and while there is lots of head-scratching going on about the wisdom of staging the game in early February in the Nor’Easter corridor, there’s no doubt it’s a good locale in media and brand dollar terms. One of the big Wow factor visual events is a projection mapping …
Projects: SFO’s New Terminal 3E Flight Deck January 28, 2014 by Super User San Francisco International re-opened a renovated Terminal 3E today, and one of the signature elements of the bustling facility is an experiential area called Flight Deck, put together by the Emerging Experiences team at Razorfish. On that team’s blog, it describes how they were contracted by Hensel-Phelps, one of the largest general contractors and construction managers …
