Tropical Birds Appear In Open Air Bar’s Trees, Using Spinning LED Light Wands June 14, 2021 by Dave Haynes Those madly spinning LED light wand thingies don’t make a lot of sense to me in a digital signage industry that tries hard to not use tech with moving parts. But once in a while I come across an application where they make sense and are effective. There have been a couple of interesting applications …
Brisbane Telecoms Retailer’s Corner Storefront Features Twin LED Arches June 8, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is a very interesting use of direct view LED on the facade of a high street telecoms store in Brisbane, Australia. The display is a curved arc over two windows on the street corner store for the Yes Optus Store on Queen Street in Brisbane. The project was done by the local to Brisbane …
As NYC Subways Start To Get Busy Again, MTA Updates Digital Art Program In Hub Stations June 4, 2021 by Dave Haynes Here’s the latest digital artwork that’s being intermingled with DOOH advertising and other content on big displays at major subway hubs in New York City. This one is at the getting-busy-again Fulton Center in lower Manhattan. It is part of the transit authority’s commissioned by MTA Arts & Design program, which commissions public art to …
Screens Turned And Stacked For Workplace Messaging In Dutch Tech Center June 3, 2021 by Dave Haynes This a nice, albeit modest, digital signage job in the reception and collaboration area of Techniek Nederland, a Dutch business association of technical service providers, installation companies and the technical retail sector. The project was put in by Mansveld and the screens are updated and managed using Pads4, which is also Dutch. It caught eye …
Chicago Museum Celebrates Famed Art Deco Train With 170 Foot Projection Wall June 2, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is an interesting take on the idea of using video walls to create the sense of motion outside a museum object – in this case a train. Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry (MSI) celebrates the famed Zephyr rail line in the U.S. – a super-streamlined engine and cars clad in stainless steel – …
Alpine Mecca Uses Solar-Powered E-Paper Signs To Guide Visitors June 1, 2021 by Dave Haynes E-paper digital signs have been used outside for real-time transit stop information and local directories, but I can’t recall them being used quite like they are in the scenic Bavarian village of Oberstdorf. The area is a skiing and hiking mecca, attracting visitors year-round – a lot of them new to the area and filled …
LA Office Tower Lobby Adds Experiential LED Video Wall Fronted By Perforated Metal Sheet May 24, 2021 by Dave Haynes LED video walls in office tower lobbies are growing increasingly common as a combination of experiential marketing tool and tenant amenity, but I haven’t seen one done like this – lower resolution LED motion graphics behind a huge sheet of perforated metal. The new digital art installation to the lobby of 800 North Brand Boulevard, a …
South African Retailer Kits Out Flagship With More Than 65 Smart Screens May 21, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is a flagship store of Edgars, a department store chain in South Africa, which was upgraded with more than 65 digital signage screens around the retail footprint. The main feature is an array of sync’d LCD screens by the escalators. It would be quite common, these days, to see that big wall clad side …
Seoul Starbucks Reserve Drives Experience With Ambient, Data-Triggered LED Feature Wall May 19, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is a Starbucks Reserve location in Seoul, in the same office tower as the coffee company’s Korean headquarters. It has a 2.5mm LED video wall on an arched feature wall. The video shows it running an animated watercolor depicting a coffee planation. Opened a couple of months ago, Starbucks says: The interior of the …
Melitron, Axis and ICON Partner On COVID-Driven People Count Kiosk for Retail May 18, 2021 by Dave Haynes I don’t get out much lately, so maybe the retail world is overrun with COVID-19 access control technologies and I’d see them if I traveled. But I don’t think so. I get carpet-bombed daily with emails about digital deployments of some kind or another, and I just have not seen much material that suggests widespread …
