Project Profile: 100 Screens In AT&T’s Chicago Flagship Store September 5, 2012 by Dave Haynes US carrier AT&T has opened up a digital screen-filled flagship store on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile retail strip, with the aim of showing customers everything AT&T offers up in technology. “Our Michigan Avenue store is where customers can immerse themselves in everything AT&T is about and truly explore the technology we have to offer,” says Paul …
Project Profile: New-York Historical Society Museum September 5, 2012 by Dave Haynes All photos: www.bengancsos.com Here’s a look at how content and industrial design can work well together and take a project up a few knotches in quality. The newly renovated New-York Historical Society Museum – which presents the long and rich history of that city, now uses digital around the facility to inform and guide visitors. I …
Project Profile: Interactive Wayfinders At Upstate NY Mall August 29, 2012 by Dave Haynes Erin Doherty from Four Winds Interactive sent along a nice piece from the Syracuse Post-Standard that profiles an expanded shopping mall in that city (Destiny USA) and the big push the mall operator did with digital wayfinding directories powered by FWi’s platform. It’s pretty familiar territory for digital wayfinding systems, but nicely executed. I like …
NBA Tweets Taken For Spin With Interactive Wall August 28, 2012 by Dave Haynes The NBA used a nice interactive social media wall to welcome fans at a pop-up facility that ran in London’s Covent Gardens during the 2012 Olympics. The goal of NBA House was to feature the league, attract new and existing fans through the day, and also be a base for VIP and partner hospitality events. …
Lil Wayne’s Projection-Mapped Mannequins August 24, 2012 by Dave Haynes If you can projection map a church, doing the same on a couple of retail mannequins would have to be dead-easy. Still, a project pulled off this week at a Las Vegas trade show was an interesting demo of what’s possible with a little planning and some short-throw projectors. The Magic Marketplace show this week …
Ancient French Cathedral’s History Told Using Projection Mapping August 20, 2012 by Dave Haynes Projection mapping can be extraodinary, but the problem I have seen repeatedly with big public projects has been the absence of a real theme and any sense of continuity. Quite often it’s a disjointed string of visual tricks, backed by electronic music. So I was pleased to read about and then watch a set of …
Sightings: LED Graffiti Wall Lit Up By Water August 14, 2012 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes (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 Dave Haynes 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 …
