Lil Wayne’s Projection-Mapped Mannequins August 24, 2012 by Super User If you can projection map a church, doing the same on a couple of retail mannequins would have to be dead-easy. Still, a project pulled off this week at a Las Vegas trade show was an interesting demo of what’s possible with a little planning and some short-throw projectors. The Magic Marketplace show this week …
Ancient French Cathedral’s History Told Using Projection Mapping August 20, 2012 by Super User Projection mapping can be extraodinary, but the problem I have seen repeatedly with big public projects has been the absence of a real theme and any sense of continuity. Quite often it’s a disjointed string of visual tricks, backed by electronic music. So I was pleased to read about and then watch a set of …
Sightings: LED Graffiti Wall Lit Up By Water August 14, 2012 by Super User As spotted in The Verge: French artist Antonin Fourneau created digital art project last month in the small city of Poitiers that used a temporary wall of custom LED panels to empower graffiti painted on using water. As the blog explains it, the Water Light Graffiti project was made of thousands of LEDs, each of which …
Transparent LCDs Go Interactive In Clever Test Project July 26, 2012 by Super User (First spotted in Endadget) The interactive team at Second Story has done some brilliant work with digital displays, most notably the digital towers at the University of Oregon and an interactive wall at the Coca-Cola museum in Atlanta. Back in the lab in Portland, they have started putzing around with transparent LCDs and other technology, …
Brit Design Students Make Subway Car Ceilings Into Location-Aware Displays July 24, 2012 by Super User PSFK has a post up about British design students who have developed a concept that turns the ceilings of subway cars into location-aware digital displays. Writes PSFK: British design students have created a digital display system for train cars to give riders a view of the outside world they’re passing. The ‘Canopy’ concept uses flexible …
Total Recall Goes Interactive On Toronto Street July 20, 2012 by Super User Monster Media is starting to get a little traction in Canada doing the sort of street-level interactive windows that InWindow Outdoor has been executing in the U.S. for the last few years. The latest is a combination big print and interactive digital project in empty retail window space along Toronto’s uber trendy Queen Street West …
The Strangest Digital Signage Product I’ve Seen In Ages July 19, 2012 by Super User After a few minutes of just kinda sitting in front of my monitor, blinking, I’m ready to report on the Air-O-Matic Advertiser, which will pump up your business with a digital signage screen planted on top of a vending machine for deflated balls. Yup. The Air-O-Matic Advertiser™ is an interactive vending machine that contains deflated …
Old Airport Dot Boards Go On Steroids, Get Interactive July 19, 2012 by Super User [youtube id=”x3jkoIyJgoc” width=”610″ height=”343″] There’s not a lot of new in this sector, so it’s fascinating to at least learn of a project that takes old technology, tweaks the hell out of it, and makes it new and very interesting. A Brooklyn-based interactive team called Breakfast has used the electromagnetic fot ticker boards that you …
Sightings: Cool Display Wall at New Revel Casino, Wayfinding at McCarran July 10, 2012 by Super User Four Winds Interactive in Denver does a nice job of a regular email push of a photo gallery of new and existing installations. In most cases a digital sign is a digital sign, but there were some new ones that caught my eye because of design or location. The first is I don’t quite know …
Sightings: Nike’s Camp Victory At 2012 Track Trials July 10, 2012 by Super User [vimeo id=”45077052 ” width=”610″ height=”343″] Nike did something akin to a pop-up store – but more like an experience center – during the recent US Olympics team tracki and field trials in a soggy Eugene, OR. Called Camp Victory, it was open during the 10 days of the trials, giving track-lovers and Nike devotees a technology-driven brand …
