London’s Decaying Battersea Power Station Brought Back To Life As Mixed-Use Development October 24, 2022 by Dave Haynes The old Battersea Power Station – a huge coal-powered electric generation station along the Thames in London – has been revived after decades of sitting derelict, opening up 10 days ago as a mixed-use development that includes retail, dining and high-end residential. The giant brick industrial block has been restored and spruced up in much …
Giant Five-Sided LED Cube Used As Custom Digital Art Feature At NYC Gallery October 21, 2022 by Dave Haynes A giant LED cube in an otherwise empty, white gallery space in the Chelsea district of New York City was used recently as a visual art feature built around deconstructed international TV commercials. The Denominator exhibit at the Gagosian contemporary art gallery on W 24th Street is part of a series by artist Urs Fischer that …
Hyundai Using Samsung’s Premium The Wall As Core Design Tool For US Studio October 20, 2022 by Dave Haynes This is an interesting use-case for a super-premium LED video wall – a huge display in the U.S. design studio for automaker Hyundai. The screen is used to look over a new vehicle design, and tweak things like its lines and color choices, before the automaker goes to the very large expense of building a …
Indian Jeweller Pops Up In Chennai Mall With Ambitious, Digital-Filled Experience Zone October 19, 2022 by Dave Haynes India’s largest jewellery retail brand is using a pop-up immersive experience in a shopping mall in Chennai to showcase a new collection of pieces inspired by an ancient Indian dynasty, with a custom room set up on a mall concourse and driven by display and interactive technologies. Tanishq, which is part of the Tata corporate …
Welsh Gourmet Grocer Driving Sales, Experience Using Tiled Digital Menus At Order Counters October 19, 2022 by Dave Haynes A good sign that digital signage is increasingly mainstreamed tech in grocery is when screens start lighting up in local and one-off groceries, and not just with the bigger, deeper-pocketed supermarket chains. This is the Cardiff Seaside Market – a gourmet grocer in Wales in guess what city – which has added a pair of …
DSF Plans Meet And Mingle, Mini-Conference And Tour For Nov. 2 In Dallas October 17, 2022 by Dave Haynes The Digital Signage Federation has another one of its regular (now that things are semi-normal again) networking events in the works, this one in a couple of weeks in Dallas. This one looks a bit different as there is a set of education sessions starting in later afternoon and then followed by a tour and …
London Flagship Of Luxury Retailer Uses High Street Facade As Vast Digital Art Canvas October 17, 2022 by Dave Haynes This is new to me but likely not to people who live or work in London – the flagship store of a UK luxury retailer using the exterior windows of its facade as a vast digital art installation. The Oxford Street location of Flannels, a British multi-brand retailer, has what’s described as a three-storey curtain …
22Miles Bridges Analog And Digital Signage For Workplace Solution With ecoPUK October 13, 2022 by Dave Haynes The CMS software 22Miles, now based in Atlanta, has announced an interesting distribution partnership with a company that designs and makes analog signs for workplaces – marrying printed material to digital via QR codes and the 22 Miles platform. ecoPUK manufactures laser-engraved bamboo and acrylic sign panels used to do things like locate meeting rooms …
Content For That Giant LED Orb In Vegas Being Tested In 1/4-Scale Dome In LA October 13, 2022 by Dave Haynes More details are starting to emerge about the technology and creative plans for the giant LED-clad orb going up just off the Las Vegas Strip – including who is taking the technology and creative lead on the project, and how content is being tested and previewed. MSG Sphere is an ambitious and expensive new attraction …
Vast Vienna McDonald’s Flagship “Breaks The QSR Cliche” With LED Video Walls, Hotel Lobby Feel October 12, 2022 by Dave Haynes This McDonald’s in Vienna, Austria would have to qualify as one of the nicest ones out there – looking more like a lux hotel in the reception area than a fast food spot. Our German language content partners at Munich-based Invidis have an interesting post up today about a flagship store in downtown Vienna that …
