Sightings: LED Graffiti Wall Lit Up By Water August 14, 2012 by Super User As spotted in The Verge: French artist Antonin Fourneau created digital art project last month in the small city of Poitiers that used a temporary wall of custom LED panels to empower graffiti painted on using water. As the blog explains it, the Water Light Graffiti project was made of thousands of LEDs, each of which …
Projects: Staff Communications At Leo Burnett Chicago August 1, 2012 by Super User The Chicago-based HQ of revered ad agency Leo Burnett covers 16 floors on West Wacker Drive, a big footprint that presents a bit of a problem when it comes to effectively getting internal communications out to staff. “There was no real centralized way to get the information out there,” says Jenny Hackett, Associate Director of …
Transparent LCDs Go Interactive In Clever Test Project July 26, 2012 by Super User (First spotted in Endadget) The interactive team at Second Story has done some brilliant work with digital displays, most notably the digital towers at the University of Oregon and an interactive wall at the Coca-Cola museum in Atlanta. Back in the lab in Portland, they have started putzing around with transparent LCDs and other technology, …
Brit Design Students Make Subway Car Ceilings Into Location-Aware Displays July 24, 2012 by Super User PSFK has a post up about British design students who have developed a concept that turns the ceilings of subway cars into location-aware digital displays. Writes PSFK: British design students have created a digital display system for train cars to give riders a view of the outside world they’re passing. The ‘Canopy’ concept uses flexible …
Total Recall Goes Interactive On Toronto Street July 20, 2012 by Super User Monster Media is starting to get a little traction in Canada doing the sort of street-level interactive windows that InWindow Outdoor has been executing in the U.S. for the last few years. The latest is a combination big print and interactive digital project in empty retail window space along Toronto’s uber trendy Queen Street West …
The Strangest Digital Signage Product I’ve Seen In Ages July 19, 2012 by Super User After a few minutes of just kinda sitting in front of my monitor, blinking, I’m ready to report on the Air-O-Matic Advertiser, which will pump up your business with a digital signage screen planted on top of a vending machine for deflated balls. Yup. The Air-O-Matic Advertiser™ is an interactive vending machine that contains deflated …
Old Airport Dot Boards Go On Steroids, Get Interactive July 19, 2012 by Super User [youtube id=”x3jkoIyJgoc” width=”610″ height=”343″] There’s not a lot of new in this sector, so it’s fascinating to at least learn of a project that takes old technology, tweaks the hell out of it, and makes it new and very interesting. A Brooklyn-based interactive team called Breakfast has used the electromagnetic fot ticker boards that you …
Sightings: Cool Display Wall at New Revel Casino, Wayfinding at McCarran July 10, 2012 by Super User Four Winds Interactive in Denver does a nice job of a regular email push of a photo gallery of new and existing installations. In most cases a digital sign is a digital sign, but there were some new ones that caught my eye because of design or location. The first is I don’t quite know …
Sightings: Nike’s Camp Victory At 2012 Track Trials July 10, 2012 by Super User [vimeo id=”45077052 ” width=”610″ height=”343″] Nike did something akin to a pop-up store – but more like an experience center – during the recent US Olympics team tracki and field trials in a soggy Eugene, OR. Called Camp Victory, it was open during the 10 days of the trials, giving track-lovers and Nike devotees a technology-driven brand …
Denver Museum Evokes Rockies In Giant Video Wall July 9, 2012 by Super User I did a book recently about MicroTiles projects around the world, and this is easily among my favorites because of the way the design team really played with shape. It has been up for several weeks now but I was waiting for a release and better snappies before writing anything. The new History Colorado Center …
