UK Krispy Kreme Adopts Digital Displays To Drive In-Store, Grocery Sales November 11, 2020 by Dave Haynes Krispy Kreme made a big splash recently with its digitally-rich flagship store in Times Square in New York, so it is interesting to see what the donut chain is doing with digital displays in the UK, in more modest locations, with much more modest budgets. Krispy Kreme UK currently operates over 115 locations and has …
Digital Curtain, Lit By Projection, Engages, Entertains Guests At Japanese Music College November 5, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is live events AV more than digital signage, but shows what’s possible with projection on a grand scale, and great creative. It is the digital curtain of the new theater, open in August, at the Senzoku Gakuen College of Music (SGCM) in Japan, in the general orbit of Tokyo. The school decided to use …
Norwegian Toy Store Drives Experience With 24M LED Ceiling November 5, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is a very impressive, nicely executed LED ceiling installed above the Kozmos toy store at Sandvika Storsenter, a mall in the general orbit of Oslo, Norway. The ceiling is 24 meters long and 2.5 meters wide, and runs through a set of visuals designed to make little eyes pop and drive the overall customer …
Tourist Stop In Zurich Uses 19-Wide LCD Video Wall To Promote Destinations November 4, 2020 by Dave Haynes Big LCD-based video walls are growing less common as direct view LED takes over, but there are still some nice jobs out there – like this one at the Zurich Tourist Information Centre in Switzerland. The centre is located on the ground floor of the main concourse of Zurich Main station, and is there to …
More Details On The LED Set-Up At New Circa Resort In Las Vegas November 3, 2020 by Dave Haynes Daktronics has pushed out a fact sheet on ALL the direct view LED installed at the new Circa Resort and Casino, which opened last week on Fremont, in downtown Las Vegas. The resort has a MASSIVE sport book display inside, and giant displays poolside and on one facade of the hotel tower. The specs says: …
E-Paper Real-Time Transit Signs Dot Bus Routes in Portuguese City October 29, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is one of numerous solar-powered, off-grid e-paper transit information displays in the Portuguese city of Coimbra. The fourth-largest urban centre in Portugal, the City of Coimbra is connected by an extensive bus (and trolleybus) network, with more than 2,000 kilometres of routes and 1,350 bus stops. The city started installing fully autonomous, solar-powered displays …
STRATACACHE Closes Massive QSR Drive-Thru Deal With RBI October 28, 2020 by Dave Haynes Dayton, Ohio-based digital signage solutions company STRATACACHE has bagged and closed a massive deal that sees it providing software, hardware and services to three of the larger QSR chains in North America, The deal involves more than 40,000 screens at Burger King, Tim Hortons and Popeyes locations in Canada and the U.S. The focus is …
Re-Opened American Dream Filled With Direct View LED Displays October 27, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is a glimpse inside American Dream, the destination retail/entertainment attraction that opened up, closed for COVID and then re-opened at the start of the month. The huge mall (the backers don’t like that term, but …) is located in the New Jersey meadowlands, on the other side of the Hudson from New York City. …
New DT Vegas Resort Hotel Features 135 Foot Wide LED Board On Pool Deck October 26, 2020 by Dave Haynes There are lots of people who don’t see trade shows and travel ever returning to pre-pandemic numbers and scenarios, but in a city born from big bets, the backers behind a new casino resort will start putting their business plan to a test this week. The first portion of the Circa resort – the first …
Cupid Bursts From Painting, Flutters Around Airport, In Cool Projection Job October 23, 2020 by Dave Haynes Hat Tip to Bob Raikes, who flagged this via his Display Daily “What Bob Saw …” newsletter. This is a terrific projection mapping piece done at the international airport in Brussels. A cupid animates and busts out from the painting he’s in, and flutters around the famous painting-filled wall in an airport common area. We …
