Big Multimedia Cylinder Display Previewed For Houston Airport’s New Int’l Terminal April 17, 2024 by Dave Haynes When I spoke with Thibaut Duverneix of the Montreal creative studio Gentilhomme on a recent podcast, he alluded to work that was underway for a big multimedia display piece at the main airport in Houston, Texas. It won’t be live until some time in 2025, but Gentilhomme presumably has the OK from the airport to …
Boring But Good: Denver’s Busy Airport Uses LED Header Banner At New TSA Checkpoint April 16, 2024 by Dave Haynes Denver International Airport recently opened a new 17-lane TSA security checkpoint on the terminal’s northwest end of Level 6, part of a $2.1B upgrade project at what is the third busiest airport in the US. The engineering and design firm Stantec is doing a big list of work at the airport, and one component is …
French ISP Free Opens Screen-Filled Experiential Concept Store In Paris-Area Mall April 16, 2024 by Dave Haynes The French internet services provider Free has opened a new concept store in a big mall just outside Paris that uses a lot of digital display and interactive to celebrate gaming – built on the idea that gaming is better and people are “Free To Play” when they have smoking-fast fiber connections and WiFi 7 …
Now Sports Teams, Not Just Movies And Kids’ Shows, Are Inspiring Theme Park Development April 15, 2024 by Dave Haynes Digital signage and pro AV companies are always looking out for emerging sectors and the opportunities they might present, which is I why I am mentioning a new theme park built not around animated characters and toys, but a famous sports franchise. There is now a theme park with rides and attractions celebrating the football …
46 Mapped Projectors Market Star Wars Products On One Face Of NYC’s Empire State Building April 12, 2024 by Dave Haynes Forty-six projector were sync’d and blended to fill the upper levels of one facade of the Empire State Building in New York with a five minute show celebrating the Star Wars movie series and encouraging fans to buy various consumer products marketed by Lucasfilm during its “Imperial March” marketing campaign. The art deco skyscraper, which …
Saudi Auto Dealer Invests Big In Custom Experiential Creative For Building And Showroom April 11, 2024 by Dave Haynes Much of what gets run on big screens at auto dealer showrooms is, somewhat logically, what amounts to car, truck and SUV porn – gorgeous footage of vehicles rolling along everything from the dampened roads of downtowns to winding, oceanside highways. So it is very interesting to see a dealership drop some presumably serious money …
AV-Driven Portland Event Space Makes Pair Of Mosaic Video Walls Key Elements Of Venue Experience April 5, 2024 by Dave Haynes Clusters of flat panel displays that are not just set in rectangles or tiled rows are something that’s been seen through the years at a lot of trade show booths and in marketing materials, but there hasn’t been much evidence of real-world deployments. They’re out there, but you couldn’t argue that they’re commonplace. That noted, …
Acquire Digital Partnership Adds Real-Time Customer Ratings To Airport Wayfinding And Directory Displays April 5, 2024 by Dave Haynes Wayfinding and directory displays at big footprint airports have long been there to help travelers find their way to gates and to services like shops and restaurants, but a new technology partnership has added a new information means to boost both experience and non-airline revenues: real-time customer ratings. UK-based CMS software firm Acquire Digital has …
Big Times Square Billboard Makes Selfies Part Of Visual Illusion Creative For Beauty Brand Campaign April 5, 2024 by Dave Haynes You can only see so many products and animated characters kinda sorta popping out of big LED billboards using visual illusions. Most tend to do variations on the same thing, and a spinning box or bottle seemingly escaping the confines of a display can get old – especially for people paying attention to this stuff. …
Video: London’s V&A Museum Turned Into Arcade Game, Using Projections And Game Controllers April 4, 2024 by Dave Haynes This was done a little more than a year ago. I missed it then, but it is still well worth noting … a projection-mapping job that turned a facade at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London into an arcade game screen. A custom video game was developed for Hyundai’s lux Genesis car product, and …
