Projects: Murad’s Digital-Filled LA Flagship Store April 20, 2015 by Super User Last fall the skin care firm Murad opened a 1,500 square-foot storefront on W. 3rd Street in Los Angeles that serves as the brand’s global flagship retail location. For a little shop it has a LOT of digital – and nicely executed at that. The digital finds its place without being overpowering, and the tiled displays is a good use …
TigerLogic Debuts Postano User-Gen Chrome App For Retail April 2, 2015 by Super User Portland, Oregon-based TigerLogic has developed and released a user-generated content application for kiosks that jumps on the rather abrupt explosion of development and interest in Google’s low-cost Chrome platform. The company’s interactive brand is Postano, and Postano Kiosk is now an app that can be downloaded from the Google Chrome web store. It’s designed for integrating user-generated …
Amazon’s Vision For Reimagined Retail Looks Awfully Familiar March 31, 2015 by Super User The tech site re/code has a piece up about how Amazon has patents that would change up how people buy goods in brick-and-mortar stores. Problem is, that idea’s been around for a decade or so. The site talks about recently filed patent applications that suggest shoppers would be able to pick items off shelves and leave the …
Armodilo Rethinks Retail Tablet Enclosures March 26, 2015 by Super User Tablet stand and enclosure manufacturer Armodilo Display Solutions will be rolling a slick new wall-mounted enclosure for tablets this spring that pretty dramatically rethinks the idea of sticking an iPad or other tab in a protective frame. The new set-up, called LITE, is based on Armodilo’s AURA kiosk design. It shifts the set-up to a …
Projects: Mall Displays Of The Future, Or Gimmick? March 25, 2015 by Super User US shopping mall operator Westfield put a back to back bank of big-ass LCD touch displays in one of its big malls, Garden State Plaza in Paramus, New Jersey, about a year ago. I missed the press and only stumbled across the set-up when it was written up as part of a piece in Ad …
Projects: Video Walls As Retail Store Banners For Gap March 23, 2015 by Super User Yorkdale is by most measures the top shopping mall in Canada. There are larger footprint ones, and ones that get more people through the doors. But the mall along Toronto’s teeming 401 highway is where most or all of the big retail brands put in a splashy flagship store. You see a lot of digital, …
Projects: LA LA LAND in LA LA Land March 17, 2015 by Super User Me and the boss took a side trip to Los Angeles several days ahead of DSE, for a few reasons: Get the f#ck out of the cold and snow; Take some meetings; Let her see LA for the 1st time. We did some obligatory sightseeing, including the freak show sidewalk scene in Hollywood, where we …
Projects: Chico’s In-Store Digital Network Runs On Chromeboxes February 5, 2015 by Super User You know that argument you hear from vendors, that serious end-users with a lot of scale will never go with free software solutions and entry-level hardware? It’s probably true in a lot of cases, but not always. And I think things are shifting, in part because of who is now working with free. As in …
Projects: Helsinki’s Hartwall Arena Adds Screens In Refurb February 2, 2015 by Super User The Harwall Arena in Finland recently went through a modernization program that included 240 new displays located around the facility, all intended to raise the fan experience. The screens were put in and are now managed by local solutions partner iConnect, using ComQi’s EnGage platform on 60 media players. The displays include several video walls, screens located …
Projects: TravelCenters’ Screens Integrated With Back-End Data February 2, 2015 by Super User I’m not what you’d call enthusiastic about the approach the client has taken to content design here – too much, too little, where to start – but I do like back-end integration that Burlington, ON-based ADFLOW Networks has put together for TravelCenters of America. The digital signage CMS company has integrated its platform with the enterprise …
