Projects: Macy’s Herald Square In NYC October 25, 2013 by Super User The biggest department store in the world is now, not surprisingly, turning into the biggest retail digital signage project in the world. Or at least looks like it is. I had about an hour before heading to NYC JFK on Thursday so I zipped down to see the renovations I had been hearing about Macy’s …
Projects: Dubai Mega-Mall Adds Mega Video Wall October 11, 2013 by Super User Dubai’s Mall of the Emirates is one of the biggest shopping centers on the planet, so it makes a degree of sense that its digital efforts on the 2.4 million sq. ft. property were also going to be big. This is the mall with the indoor ski resort, and also now with a gigantic 9 …
Projects: Huge Digital Mural At Yorkdale Mall (Video) October 10, 2013 by Super User Here’s a really nice video providing a look at the thinking and execution on a big digital mural on a bulkhead above a Scotiabank branch in Toronto’s Yorkdale Mall. Located in what is the ritziest retail patch in Canada, the mural put together for the bank by Cineplex uses a wide swath of Christie …
Sightings: Projection Mapping In Montreal September 13, 2013 by Super User I have been up in Montreal the last couple of days and out last night in this terrific city having dinner with clients/friends in the arts district, much of which is now lit up by large format projection systems. Several buildings in the area have been 3D-mapped and are now permanently lit at night with …
Projects: Queue Management For Cyclists September 11, 2013 by Super User Queue management systems are no-brainers as great customer service applications, as as content for digital signage screens. If I am waiting for attention at a retail location, restaurant or government office, I will refer relentlessly to a screen that tells me where I am on the wait list. Like POS, queue management systems have more …
Apple’s Gorgeous, Digital Signage-lite Stores September 10, 2013 by Super User Note: Revised based on reader comments … Look around the retail landscape and you see no end of design directly influenced by Apple’s minimalist stores. They’re beautiful. The state of the retail design art. And they have little or no digital signage. There are iPads on tables that could be called digital signage (I …
Projects: AT&T’s Store Of The Future In Chicago ‘Burbs August 30, 2013 by Super User US telecoms giant AT&T has followed up its very fancy flagship brand store on North Michigan in Chicago with a tech-heavy concept store in that same city’s southwest suburbs. The “store of the future” in La Grange is, says the company in a news release, the end result of “more than two years of research …
Projects: New Shoppers Drug Mart Boutique August 28, 2013 by Super User Canadian retailer Shoppers Drug Mart has always done a roaring trade in crazily high margin, and crazily tiny, jars, vials and tubs of beauty products, and has been putting more and more of an emphasis on that in its pharmacy locations across the country. The retailer today opened a beautyBOUTIQUE at the hyper-busy Toronto Eaton …
Projects: TD Canada Trust Video Wall August 21, 2013 by Super User There’s nothing new about video walls but this one – for an ATM bank in Toronto’s TD Centre concourse – caught my idea because of the shape, which has a two-faced header. Not sure, but think this would be a STRATACACHE (look Chris, I did ALL CAPS!) software job. It’s a very high traffic area, …
Projects: Gesture-Driven Lobby Welcome Table August 20, 2013 by Super User A retail design firm, interactive agency and CalPoly students have collaborated on and lit up a very nice, innovative corporate lobby project that combines projection, gesture sensors, digital signage software and HD visuals. The project is located in the downtown LA lobby of Gensler and reflects the thinking and output of a Seattle-area agency called The Hive. …
