Projects: LA DIY Florist Uses Digital Signage To Amplify Customer Experiences December 17, 2015 by Super User People who go into one of the two Los Angeles locations of Fleurish can design and build their own flower arrangements in what is billed as the first ever design-it-yourself flower studio. The stores get everything from individuals, to classes, and all the way to bachelorette parties (pre-cocktails, I assume). The stores use digital signage in a …
Is Eddystone The Game-Changer For Beacons In Retail? December 16, 2015 by Nir Doron GUEST POST: Paul Croubalian, The Customer Experience Group For 132 years, the Eddystone lighthouse has stood on the treacherous Eddystone Rocks in Devon. Its light has shown out over the waters warning mariners and saving them from impending doom. Now, its namesake sets similar sights on saving retailers, restaurants, hotels, et al. Eddystone just might be the …
Projects: Star Wars Premiere Red Carpet Walk Flanked By Giant MicroTiles Walls December 16, 2015 by Super User The world premiere in Los Angeles of the long-awaited Star Wars: The Force Awakens? had a massive red carpet area, including a walkway with almost 400 of Christie’s MicroTiles displays. Christie’s Coolux Pandoras Box Media Servers powered a variety of displays, including 388 MicroTiles on the walkway walls and 18 Christie LCD panels in other red carpet and photo …
inLighten Cited As Best of Best Product In Worship Sector December 16, 2015 by Super User Congratulations to one of this blog’s loyal sponsors – inLighten – which has been cited as among the ‘Best of the Best’ Hot Products for 2015 by Religious Product News. If that’s a head-scratcher for you, bear in mind that there are 1,000s and 1,000s of houses of worship out there, across many faiths, and a …
Cues And Clues To Tuning Your Digital Signage Content To Your Core Audience December 15, 2015 by Super User One of the first things a good digital signage consultant is going to ask a client is: “Who is your audience?” That can sometimes be easily defined, or be really hard, when it comes to catch-alls like mass transport or shopping malls. Adobe has been releasing a series of surveys looking at how consumers look …
Projects: Viennese Digital OOH Screen Takes Donations For Christmas December 14, 2015 by Super User A landmark Viennese church, St. Stephen’s Cathedral, is working with an Austrian outdoor media to generate donations through a digital screen set up in Stephansplatz, a public square. The media firm Gewista has set up a screen that takes 2 Euro donations, to be put towards ongoing renovations to the old church. The is how Google …
Are Shopping Mall Wayfinding Directories Still Relevant? December 14, 2015 by Super User I find myself in a lot of shopping malls during my travels, but not because I’m a voracious consumer. It’s rare when I even walk in stores. I’m there out of curiosity – looking at what the landlords and tenants are doing with the physical design and the digital experience. A couple of weeks ago …
My Chromebit Is Truly In Hand December 11, 2015 by Super User When Asus finally put Chromebits on the marketplace last month, I decided to order one online. No could do. At least not in Canada. I tried a week later and no luck. No one had them, though there was a place in the US that had them on back-order and they maybe, just maybe, shipped …
Projects: Montreal’s Arts District Adds More Projection-Mapped Buildings, Interactive Seesaws December 10, 2015 by Super User The arts quarter of the amazing city of Montreal has been a visual treat for a few years, owing to various temporary and permanent installations that use lighting and projection. But that gets amped up starting tonight, with a program that runs through the end of January. Called Impulse, the winter installation sees several buildings transformed …
Projects: Illinois Church Lights Up Simple, Logical, Nice Digital Signage Network December 9, 2015 by Super User Here’s a great example of how digital signage projects – no matter how modest – can succeed because the people or person behind it exercised solid thinking and common sense, and coupled that with some creative talent. I saw a Tweet about a church using Rise Vision’s open source content management platform and Raspberry Pi …
