Projects: Silver Jeans Gets Big Screens November 14, 2013 by Super User Retailer Silver Jeans Co., which sells guess what, has turned on a new stylized concept store that puts a video wall as its centerpiece. The new concept uses music and video wall technology (from YCD Multimedia) to build customer loyalty within a multi-sensory environment that captures attention and shares the Silver Jeans’ story. The concept store …
Nothing Says Christmas Like An Intel® Core™ i5-2500S November 14, 2013 by Super User I’d file this under curios – in that way Intel can do curious things. Like launch a digital signage content management system the market didn’t need (and then largely make it disappear). Five months later and still waiting for the guest post offered and accepted by Joes Avalos. Anyway, Intel is opening a pop-up store …
Commoditized: Now You Can Get Interactive Projection Systems For Sub-$500 October 26, 2013 by Super User Gizmodo has a piece up today about a company looking for funding, via Kickstarter, that has largely commoditized the technology used for interactive projection systems. What the company has is intended for the bedrooms of little kids, but Raspberry Pi was intended as a kit to teach schoolkids about computing, and that went in a …
Projects: Macy’s Herald Square In NYC October 25, 2013 by Super User The biggest department store in the world is now, not surprisingly, turning into the biggest retail digital signage project in the world. Or at least looks like it is. I had about an hour before heading to NYC JFK on Thursday so I zipped down to see the renovations I had been hearing about Macy’s …
Projects: Guerlain’s Terrific Duty-Free Micro Shop October 7, 2013 by Super User We spent most of the last two weeks on a Hawaiian island (Molokai) that is so sleepy it doesn’t have a traffic light and the only retail chains around are Napa Auto Parts and Ace Hardware. It was awesome. However, we had to start and end our first time in Hawaii in Honolulu, which is …
Projects: Queue Management For Cyclists September 11, 2013 by Super User Queue management systems are no-brainers as great customer service applications, as as content for digital signage screens. If I am waiting for attention at a retail location, restaurant or government office, I will refer relentlessly to a screen that tells me where I am on the wait list. Like POS, queue management systems have more …
Apple’s Gorgeous, Digital Signage-lite Stores September 10, 2013 by Super User Note: Revised based on reader comments … Look around the retail landscape and you see no end of design directly influenced by Apple’s minimalist stores. They’re beautiful. The state of the retail design art. And they have little or no digital signage. There are iPads on tables that could be called digital signage (I …
Projects: New Shoppers Drug Mart Boutique August 28, 2013 by Super User Canadian retailer Shoppers Drug Mart has always done a roaring trade in crazily high margin, and crazily tiny, jars, vials and tubs of beauty products, and has been putting more and more of an emphasis on that in its pharmacy locations across the country. The retailer today opened a beautyBOUTIQUE at the hyper-busy Toronto Eaton …
Startup Thirdshelf Lets Retailers Easily Appify For The Sales Floor July 23, 2013 by Super User Retailers who want to get their pots and pans, or whatever they sell, onto app-driven tablets for staff can find themselves conflicted on exactly how to do that. The default option is to get an app development team to build one and get it approved and loaded in app stores. If the retailer has a …
Projects: Stacked Digital Branding Wall At DFW Retailer Destinations July 1, 2013 by Super User Here’s another airport job, this one at an apparel retailer called Destinations, at a shop within Dallas Fort Worth Airport. It’s a video wall of four stacked 46-inch monitors, in place to engage and influence some of the 58 million people who move through that crazy airline hub each year. The wall is run by a …
