Chinese Mall Uses Transparent LED Light Rings As Atrium Canopy November 30, 2021 by Dave Haynes Here’s a very different, interesting take on the idea of LED canopy ceilings in places like malls and public buildings – a series of suspended circles that are animated by transparent LED. It is a mall somewhere in Asia, and uses the transparent LED mesh product from NEXNOVO. The mall atrium has a series of …
Adidas First Terrex Flagship Store For Europe Appears To Go Big With LED Canopies November 29, 2021 by Dave Haynes I could be corrected, but looking at these photos and thinking about what seems to happen with sports retailer flagship stores, it appears the first Adidas Terrex flagship store for Europe uses a lot of LED video wall to drive the shopper experience. The store opened last week in central Munich. Terrex sells products related …
Check Out The Emerald – A Different, Architectural Take On Center-Hung LED Ad Displays November 23, 2021 by Dave Haynes Four-sided LED displays suspended from ceilings are common in sports venues and seen here and there in the common areas of public spaces, but I haven’t seen one done like this ad display in the Dutch city of Utrecht. The London-based media company blowUP Media calls its display The Emerald and it is a visual …
Canada Goose Relies Heavily On Digital To Drive Experience In New Footwear Stores November 19, 2021 by Dave Haynes The Canadian apparel brand Canada Goose – best known for its pricey, goose down-stuffed winter parkas – has now expanded into high-performance winter footwear and added new experiential components to select stores. For the recent global launch, “Canada Goose wanted to deliver immersive, and engaging integrated brand experiences that would emotionally connect with customers bringing …
WHSmith Store Uses Massive Digital Facade For New London Stansted Airport Store November 18, 2021 by Dave Haynes Technical details have eluded me, but what I do know is the just-opened WHSmith store at London Stansted Airport went all-in with digital – with a huge, all-digital facade facing the concourse and screens all through the store. The travel retail focused online publication Moodie Davitt Report was at the store opening Wednesday and filed …
WaitTime Expands Crowd Analytics Service Into Mega-Malls In Cisco-Intel Partnership November 17, 2021 by Dave Haynes The load-balancing outcomes the Detroit start-up WaitTime brings to sports and entertainment venues has always seemed like a smart play, but I am not sure about the company’s new partnership with tech giants Cisco and Intel for places like giant shopping malls. The three have “collaborated to deliver an artificial intelligence (AI) solution that provides …
Finn Telecoms Retailer Greets Customers With OLED Display Canopy November 10, 2021 by Dave Haynes Via Invidis The Finnish telecommunications group Elisa has a store in Helsinki’s Mall of Tripla, quite close to its headquarters building. The shop is interesting, reports my friends at the German language publisher invidis, because it is using LG’s wallpaper-thin, flexible OLED displays as a canopy above shoppers as they walk in. Next to an …
Saudi Entertainment Complex Emulates Times Square On What Was A Patch Of Sand Four Months Ago November 4, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is just nutty in terms of the scope, scale and speed at which it came together – a massive retail and entertainment complex that went from a big patch of sand in Riyadh to fully operational and ready for the Saudi public in just four months. The Riyadh City Boulevard development opened this week, …
Nike Shanghai Flagship Uses Four-Storey LED Tower And LED Floors For Lebron Skills Challenge October 29, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is an interesting blend of semi-transparent LED mesh video walls, LED floor tiles, sensors and real-time visualized data used to create an interactive basketball experience in a Nike flagship in Shanghai. Nike worked with basketball god Lebron James to develop a skills challenge set that aspiring hoopers could inside the store, with sensors lighting …
London Coffee Shop Uses Projection To Create Wall-Filling, Animated Ordering Menus October 26, 2021 by Dave Haynes When industry people think about digitizing menus for the quick service and fast casual restaurant industries, they’re almost certainly thinking about how many flat panel displays will be needed, and where they’ll go. But using projection on the walls behind counters offers an interesting, very flexible alternative solution. This is a coffee shop in London …
