Projects: ABSA’s Bank Of The Future In Suburban Johannesburg May 14, 2013 by Dave Haynes A little pre-dinner wander around the Clearwater shopping mall in Johannesburg Monday (here on a gig) walked me up to a bank of the future digital install that was both impressive and dumb. I had no idea it was there. First, the impressive … The ABSA bank (part of the Barclay’s group) has installed a …
Projects: Franklin Institute’s New Ticketing Boards May 2, 2013 by Dave Haynes Here’s the new ticketing display system at The Franklin Institute, a science museum in Philadelphia Science Museum. There are five 55-inch displays at the ticketing entrance, showing ticket prices, current or upcoming exhibits, show and tour group times, and video trailers. The museum uses Scala and has set its scheduling to shuffle ticket packages for museum …
Projects: Skier Info At Chamonix Mont Blanc May 2, 2013 by Dave Haynes The Swiss software company Navori has its QL platform the communications for Compagnie du Mont Blanc, which runs the French Chamonix Mont Blanc area. There are 16 outdoor and indoor screens, some as high up as 10,000 feet and operating at waaay below zero, running snow conditions, wayfinding, cable lift information, weather information and alerts. …
Projects: Boise State Hangs Giant NanoLumens Panel In Arts Center April 25, 2013 by Dave Haynes The Velma V. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts at Boise State University a very big digital display in its lobby to communicate with people before, during and after shows, and settled on a six-feet-tall by eleven-feet-wide NanoLumens 4mm LED skinny and light enough to hand on the wall like a tapestry. The NanoSlim display’s …
Projects: Radford University’s Finance Lab April 22, 2013 by Dave Haynes Here’s another example of a trading room simulation put together for a university by Rise Display. Virginia-based Radford University’s finance lab features two interactive touch screens that show indices, currencies, commodities, and bonds, along with tables and charts and financial news updates. Three passive digital displays featuring financial charts, tables, and Reuters news. The room …
Projects: Digital Fixtures In Strasbourg’s Galeries Lafayette April 16, 2013 by Dave Haynes The press release is in French, which I am proficient at when it comes to ordering beer, but not much else. But what I could tell is that French integrator Eikeo is working with the Galeries Lafayette store in Strasbourg, France to get large vertical displays around the place. Two things: 1 – The sleek black …
Projects: SMU’s Biz School Emulates Trading Floor Environment April 15, 2013 by Dave Haynes [youtube id=”6Ve_TDx9WP8″ width=”600″ height=”350″] This is pretty cool, though I doubt the students at Southern Methodist University’s Finance Lab yell all day and then head home in their BMW the way the guys do on Wall Street. SMU’s Cox School of Business has simulated a real-world trading environment in a lab that emulates a trading …
Projects: Scotiabank’s Scattered Sweep Of MicroTiles At Yorkdale April 1, 2013 by Dave Haynes I already thought the digital display work at Scotiabank’s branch at Yorkdale mall (a very high-end shopping centre in Toronto) was pretty nice, but a new element that was still just in planning when I was last through there is now up and running. There are 80 MicroTiles in an abstract, textured sweep on the …
Projects: Virtual Train Windows In Madrid Bar March 29, 2013 by Dave Haynes This is brilliant. Jeff Wismer of Cineplex Digital tweeted about a coffee shop/bar in Madrid, Spain that has taken on the look of a passenger rail cabin, all the way down to a set of digital cabin windows that show a virtual landscape rolling by. The Passenger bar was put together by art designer Parolio, …
Projects: 170 Sq. Ft. Of Sign At DC Convention Hall March 28, 2013 by Dave Haynes NanoLumens now has a very large, very prominent showpiece install in the US Capitol it send potential clients over to see. The Atlanta-based company is making noise about a new 7.5 foot high by 23 foot wide LED panel above one of the main hall entryways at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington …
