Projects: Queue Management For Cyclists September 11, 2013 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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. …
Projects: Press Coffee At PHX August 16, 2013 by Dave Haynes Here’s a new project involving QSR menu displays at Press Coffee Food & Wine, terminal 4 at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. Five 55-inch Samsung displays are being used to display menu items and promote various feature items and daily specials. Advision Media and KarePKG Solutions did the deal and work, and the system is using …
Projects: Video Case Study On New McCarran Airport Terminal July 18, 2013 by Dave Haynes [youtube id=”5hLQSoz4TY8″ width=”600″ height=”350″] Four Winds Interactive has posted a nice, tight video case study on the work they did at the lovely, airy, almost placid new international terminal at McCarran Airport in Las Vegas. As disclosure, I’ll note I did the interviews as a favor to FWi and the video shoot team, my Studio …
Projects: Tourism Vancouver Opens Digitally-Focused Flagship Centre July 15, 2013 by Dave Haynes Tourism Vancouver, which is the tourism authority for that awesome (when sunny) city on Canada’s west coast, downsized its main downtown visitor facility this spring and wanted to add digital to drive information and also the ticketing for its many, many member destinations and attractions. The result is a really nice combination of a dominating …
Projects: 19,000 Sq Ft Of Display And Brilliant Content At Redone LAX Terminal July 7, 2013 by Dave Haynes This has the makings of something really special. The revitalized Tom Bradley International Terminal (TBIT) at LAX opens next month with a series of enhancements that will make the technical side of travel better, but also add to the experience of passing through the crazy-busy airline terminal. The terminal will be filled with big, intriguing …
