Project Profile: Shaw’s Waterfall Retail Displays December 4, 2012 by Dave Haynes Canadian communications and media giant Shaw Communications has started integrating digital screens into its retail stores and using Christie’s MicroTiles to full advantage as interesting, dimensional feature walls. The pix are of the 4 high by 6 wide wall done this spring at Sunridge Mall in NE Calgary – pretty close to my old Calgary Herald …
Project Profile: Nespresso’s Interactive Sales Kiosks Now in 250+ Sites December 3, 2012 by Dave Haynes Swiss food giant Nestle Group markets its Nespresso coffee machines and capsules very deliberately as upmarket and special. You can’t buy the capsules in grocers or mass merchandisers. You instead have to order online or go to a handful of retail stores that are packaged up like snooty, high fashion boutiques. I know this because I …
Project Profile: An Elementary Take On Street-Level Interactive November 29, 2012 by Dave Haynes [highlight color=”eg. yellow, black”]Editor: I know, that’s not the video I am referencing. They sent me embedded video and then they took the video down. I smell cranky agency.[/highlight] Here’s a large-format street window campaign for the CBS TV drama Elementary – a touchscreen trivia game. People walking by the display – in NYC as …
Spotted: Video Wall Embedded in Scotiabank’s Giant Branding Wall November 29, 2012 by Dave Haynes Jeff Wismer of Toronto’s Cineplex Digital Solutions posted a tweet and pic (@jeffwismer) from a new branding wall at the Scotiabank branch at Yorkdale, arguably’s Canada’s toniest shopping mall. It’s an array of four 55-inch LG LCD panels. It’s also a great example of how a big canvas can work with you or against you. …
Project Profiles: Google’s Gallery For Everyone In Times Square November 26, 2012 by Dave Haynes Google is using a pop-up demo center and an LED board in New York’s Times Square to promote its new $249 Chromebook cloud-based laptop. You an walk up to the demo center and check out the Chromebooks, as well as upload photos with brief messages suggesting what these latops are for, as in For Movies, …
Project Profile: The Night Sky In LEDs, As Tribute To Carl Sagan November 24, 2012 by Dave Haynes You can do some pretty amazing things with even low rez LED screens if a bright mind gets involved. This is artist Leo Villareal’s tribute to the late American astronomer Carl Sagan, embedded into the outdoor ceiling of a building on the campus of Cornell University, where Sagan was a professor. The installation uses …
Project Profile: Massive Video Room Shows Narrow Bezels Essential November 21, 2012 by Dave Haynes Here is the ultimate reference case on why video walls need to use super narrow bezel monitors or display cube tech like MicroTiles or Prysm. Here is a massive, absolutely massive video wall that looks like hell because they spec’d in monitors with wider bezels. Stony Brook University, on the north shore of Long Island …
City 24 7 Touchscreens Start Rolling Out In NYC November 20, 2012 by Dave Haynes Photos from Cisco IBSG The first of some 250 touchscreens in New York have started replacing old payphones on the nicer sidewalks of the city. The first two are running in Union Square, and more are coming in a trial program that has the approval of the city. The screens are ad-supported and the city gets …
Project Profile: Texas Tech’s New Business School Video Wall November 20, 2012 by Dave Haynes This kinda spanks a chalkboard or even an overhead projector. Texas Tech University’s Rawls College of Business has put up a massive 12 wide by 9 high wall of Christie’s MicroTiles in a primary classroom, using it as a multimedia instruction tool and something of a showpiece for the school. The wall is installed at …
Project Profiles: Barneys Lights Up Massive Holiday Display Using MicroTiles November 15, 2012 by Dave Haynes The holiday season is underway in New York City and the windows of the larger, flashier stores are getting dressed up once again. One of the most, at least seemingly, ambitious projects this year appears to be a massive multimedia installation at Barneys. The fashion retailer’s flagship store at 660 Madison Avenue has several configurations …
