Sightings: U of T Adds MicroTiles Wall At Conference Centre May 15, 2012 by Dave Haynes I like stuff that looks built in and not bolted on, so a new video wall that just turned at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs has some appeal. The front wall of the Vivian and David Campbell conference facility at the U of T now has a 6 by 6 MicroTiles …
Caesar’s Palace Gets Projection-Mapped (video) May 7, 2012 by Dave Haynes [youtube id=”vQ8N-J9JADg” width=”600″ height=”350″] 3D Projection-mapping seems to really be taking off as a medium. I used to see odd video here and there, but now I am seeing releases and videos regularly. DWP Live and Monster Media did one on part of the facade of Caesar’s Palace in Lost Wages recently – tied in …
Telus Opens Digital-Heavy NextGen Store In Montreal (w/video) May 7, 2012 by Dave Haynes [youtube id=”aeHTxp6_a0I” width=”600″ height=”350″] Here’s a nice example of blended interactive and ambient digital, using display monitors and projection, worked fully into the design of a new Telus concept store in suburban Montreal. Telus is a top 3 wireless carrier, based in Vancouver. The company’s first “Next Generation” at Carrefour Laval was designed “to bring the …
Sightings: NHL Team Floods Ice With Digital Projections April 19, 2012 by Dave Haynes The National Hockey League playoffs are in full flight and the boys are beating the living hell out of each other, seemingly even more so than normal. Canada’s big hope for bringing the Stanley Cup trophy back to the cradle of hockey is the team from Vancouver, though there is a 50:50 chance the team …
Sightings: Office Lobby Network In UK Re-brands April 18, 2012 by Dave Haynes I got into the still strange world of digital signage and digital OOH almost exactly 13 years ago, finding myself wearing a hard hat and riding on top of an elevator up a skyscraper in Calgary. I was putting screens in elevators, and part of the deal was figuring out how to get the signal …
A Virtual Kiss Is Just A Kiss April 2, 2012 by Dave Haynes [youtube id=”xyFZl7lCz_s” width=”600″ height=”350″] It reads all science fiction-y when you first look at this post out of Japan about an interactive poster that you can kiss and get a reaction from, but what’s going on isn’t actually all that magical or interesting. As The Verge reports, “researchers at Keio University are working on a …
FT Projection Maps Data Graphics In Grand Central March 28, 2012 by Dave Haynes The Financial Times international business newspaper is running a somewhat interactive Digital OOH campaign highlighted by a big projection thing in one of the cavernous halls of New York’s Grand Central Terminal. The campaign is intended to put the spotlight on the paper’s efforts in data-driven journalism – which is a lot of what business …
NZ Museum Piece Blends Modern Tech With Traditional Maori Cloaks March 22, 2012 by Dave Haynes Tony Scott of Wallflower Advanced Digital Signage in Auckland, New Zealand (bucket list destination) sent along a note and case study link to an interesting museum project that blends traditional Maori culture with very modern technology. Artist TeRongo Kirkwood was commissioned by Creative NZ to create a new body of work, representing the Kahu or Maori Cloak, …
Five Vendors I Wish I’d Seen At DSE March 16, 2012 by Dave Haynes The challenge with going to a trade show in an industry I’ve been around since we were making displays with stone tools and mud is that it is really hard to walk through that place and not end up in lengthy chats with friends. So two days was nowhere near enough for me to have …
NYC’s Urban Panel Subway Network Wisely Adds Rider Updates March 16, 2012 by Dave Haynes This seems like such an obvious thing to be doing that you wonder they’ve not always done it, but the New York MTA, which operates the vast subway system, and CBS Outdoor have finished deploying and activating an Urban Panel network of some 100 doubled-sided displays over the stairwells leading into busy stations. The screens …
