Beaver Trison Picks Up In-Store Tech Honors For Work On Made.com Digital Showroom October 21, 2020 by Dave Haynes Congratulations to Peter Critchley and the crew at London-based solutions provider Beaver Trison for winning the In-store Technology of the Year Award at this week’s 2020 Retail System Awards, for its work on the MADE.com digital showroom solution now deployed across the retailer’s European stores. Working with the tech manufacturer Asus, Beaver Trison used beautifully …
Bay Area High School’s New Innovation Center Boasts Giant LED In Common Area October 14, 2020 by Dave Haynes Here’s more evidence direct view LED is getting mainstreamed – what looks like the common area for a new center for innovation at a Catholic girl’s high school in Concord, CA, on the east side of the Bay Area. The new building on the campus of Carondelet High School, opened last fall, has a pretty …
Entries For 2021 Global Digital Signage Awards Up 15% … Despite 2020 October 14, 2020 by Dave Haynes Overall entries are up 15% for the global Digital Signage Awards 2021, which has now closed submissions. Entries from North America are up just over 20%. They tripled previous numbers from Australia and New Zealand and European entries overall are up 10%. “There is no doubt that the calibre/caliber of entries is …
Polish Apparel Retailer Modivo Launches Digitally-Driven, Video Wall-Heavy New Format Store October 14, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is an interesting spin on a digitally-driven apparel store – somewhere in Poland. The chain – called Modivo – has launched a new format that is heavy on narrow-bezel LCD video walls, and that uses something like an appointment set-up for shopping. The store, designed by the London creative agency Dalziel & Pow, sees …
You Know LED Is Getting Mainstreamed When Big Fine Pitch Displays Go In Sports Bars October 13, 2020 by Dave Haynes A sure sign that Direct View LED display tech is getting mainstreamed is a new case study showing a big, three-sided display cube over a sports bar in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Now keep in mind this is a bar adjacent to Lambeau Field, home of the storied Green Bay Packers NFL team, but still … …
Levi’s Opens Digitally-Rich NextGen Stores In US, China October 13, 2020 by Dave Haynes Levi Strauss & Co. has started opening what it is calling its NextGen stores – new shops built around personalization and digital. The San Francisco-based apparel company put one of the first stores of this new format in the epicenter of digital – Silicon Valley – and in a mall where price is probably not …
Stradivarius Uses Lighting Animations To Drive Brand At Store On French Riviera October 9, 2020 by Dave Haynes More and more case studies and references are starting to pop up that feature direct view LED digital facades in flagship stores, but here’s an example of an image-conscious brand going in a different direction – using animated lighting. This is the Stradivarius store in Cagner Sur Mer, on the French Riviera. Stradivarius is a …
Another Anamorphic LED Public Art Board Surfaces, This One In China October 9, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is a big wrap-around DV LED display on the corner of an urban shopping plaza in Chengdu, China, using 3D animation techniques to create the illusion that a Star Trek ship is emerging from the building. The set-up is VERY reminiscent of a board in Seoul that also also shows public art. You will …
Climate Change Exhibit Creates Video Tunnel With 112 OLEDs October 8, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is a video tunnel using open-frame OLED displays, some curved, for a climate change awareness exhibit called The Glacier – part of an exhibition at Klima Arena in Sinsheim, Germany. Says Sovanta, a German software company involved in the project: The walk-in exhibit is an extraordinary experience: With its help, visitors experience a leap …
NYC Property Group Uses DV LED To Wrap Around Its Main Sales Meeting Space October 6, 2020 by Dave Haynes Glass conference rooms in open plans sometimes get wrapped in translucent film to add a little privacy, but I don’t think I have seen a meeting space wrapped in a curved, 51-foot direct view LED display wall. This is the Midtown West Marketing Suite, the sales and marketing space for the Brookfield Properties-owned mixed used …
