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16:9: Seoul Urban Shopping Mall Uses Digital Displays To Attract Attention, Draw In Shoppers

This is a seriously spruced-up entryway to an urban shopping plaza in Seoul, blending LED and LCD with ambient visuals. The M Plaza shopping mall refurbishment was led by the Spanish creative shop Necsum Trison – with a goal of making the entrance to the shopping center more striking for people on the high street. […]

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Wed, May 12, 2021 at 12:10 AM

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Captivate Gives SMBs Love Through Free Business Spotlights On Its 11,000 Screen Network

Office tower media network Captivate, which has screens in elevator cabs and building lobbies in big cities across the U.S. and Canada, is running a nice advertorial promotion this month aimed at helping small businesses. […]

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Thu, May 6, 2021 at 10:48 AM

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16:9: The Interactive Display Ecosystem in a Single Poster

Every so often there are graphics that come out from technology sectors that try to identify and sort a particular ecosystem, grouping sets of company logos by capability or focus. I can’t recall seeing one focused on digital signage, and that may be in part because of the 100s of CMS software companies out there – more of which still, amazingly, keep popping up. […]

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Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 3:45 PM

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KC Office Block Uses Generative Data For A Dynamic Digital Clock Tower

This is a digital clock tower feature on an office building in central Kansas City, using generative art to suggest the time and weather. The LA creative technology shop StandardVision was commissioned by Block Real Estate to develop the new digital display at a top corner of 46 Penn Centre. […]

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 11:44 AM

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16:9: Poland’s Screen Network Using Deep Fakes of Masterpiece Paintings to Showcase Their OOH Screens

The Polish digital OOH media company Screen Network have developed a fun campaign that draws attention to their screens by using “deep fake” technology to manipulate famous paintings. The campign uses artificial intelligence and deep learning to create life-like but entirely artificial animations of famous paintings from the likes of Van Gogh, Vermeer and Da Vinci. […]

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Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 9:00 AM

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16:9: Brilliant Example of Digital Merged With Mechanical for Engaging Interactive Work

This is brilliant stuff … famous works of art digitized and playfully integrated with old-school mechanical devices to make them interactive. The exhibit is called Mechanical Masterpieces – a collection of paintings reimagined by artist Neil Mendoza for the 21st century. […]

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Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 10:00 AM

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16:9: Real Estate Developer Uses Anamorphic Illusions on Indoor Corporate LED Video Wall

New anamorphic 3D visuals on big LED boards located in public plazas in Asia seem to be popping up more and more on feeds like Linkedin. Like this one with a Star Trek craft flying out of a building corner. Here’s a very different take – a corporate office in Vancouver, BC that is using anamorphic visuals (viewed from a certain angle, 2D graphics look three-dimensional) for business messaging. […]

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Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 9:00 AM

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16:9: Those Spinning LED Wand Thingies Find an Application – Public Art

The madly spinning LED wands that started showing up at AV trade shows maybe four years ago have always been good at attracting crowds at booths, but I’ve not seen or read much that suggests broad adoption in the real world. […]

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Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 1:00 PM

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16:9: Feeding The Content Beast With “Machine-Generated Creative”

Feeding the content beast – steadily dealing with the insatiable appetite of a digital signage network – has been an issue for as long as the industry has been around, and one that’s still not really solved. […]

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Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 12:38 PM

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16:9: Breakfast Evolves Mechanical Flip-Disc Signs As Kinetic, AI-Driven Artworks

If you have been around the industry for a while and Digital Signage Expo was part of your travels, you may remember 4-5 years ago a Brooklyn studio called Breakfast showing its flip-disc displays off on one side of the exhibit hall floor. […]

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Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 9:51 AM

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16:9: Another Big Robotic Video Wall Surfaces, But This One’s Safe Inside, And Done With Projection

Here’s another example of one of those robotic, kinetic, three-dimensional walls that has cubes that push out and slide back in based on programmed sequences. It is is the same motion technology as what was used for that ill-fated Coca-Cola spectacular LED display in Times Square, but the biggest difference with this one is that it is inside. […]

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Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 11:56 AM

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16:9: Free Digital Signage Content For Women’s History Month

The CMS firm Rise Vision has kindly made a set of nine high-rez jpegs available that celebrate Women’s History Month, which is on right now. They are available with no strings to other networks, regardless of whether the screens run or not on Rise software. […]

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Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 12:08 AM

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NYC Financial Services Offices Add Experiential Digital To Workplace Atmosphere

This is the lobby and an upstairs lounge that have been digitally re-imagined by ESI Design for a financial services company in its New York City offices. ESI doesn’t say who, which means it can’t – as is often the case with big-name accounts. […]

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Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 1:29 PM

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16:9: Denys Lavigne Surfaces; Opening An Immersive Experience Venue In Montreal Tomorrow

Denys Lavigne built up one of the most respected and awarded creative shops in digital signage, but Arsenal Media unfortunately petered out as a company in the wake of its 2014 acquisition by Christie. Denys eventually left, and I suspect a lot of people in digital signage have been wondering what he’s been up to. […]

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Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 12:52 PM

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16:9: Universal Symbols Suggested For Screen-based Health, Safety And Weather Alerts

An industry consortium called the NextGen Video Information Systems Alliance (NVISA) has put out what it calls a recommended practice document on how to best display emergency alerts based on easily-discernable graphical elements. […]

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Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 10:47 AM

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