Here’s a very nice install – featuring a “flying” video wall – that formally switched on last week at the new 10-screen Showcase Cinema de Lux in Southampton, England. The high-end movie house has laser projection and Dolby Atmos sound, and fully customizable electric recliners for seating. […]
If you have been to a mall or big campus area, you’ve likely walked up to a touchscreen to get some help locating a shop or office – working off a name or category, like “shoes.” So what if the main option was a logo cloud? That’s the approach used in the Abu Dhabi Mall in guess where. […]
Here’s a simple but compelling application of data-driven content for digital out of home advertising – digital billboard messages shaped and triggered by weather forecasts and reports. Canada’s passenger rail service Via Rail ran a campaign with integrated messaging across out-of-home, mobile and online that was built around storm messaging. […]
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The midwest US, employee-owned grocer Hy-Vee has opened a conference and event center in its West Des Moines, Iowa head office that goes very big on a blend of digital and print graphics. The company turned the building’s lobby into an 11,000-square-foot history pavilion and hired Dimensional Innovations, a Kansas-based architecture and design firm, to design and fabricate the space. […]
The Queensland University of Technology (QUT) hosts an amazing digital interactive learning space featuring 9 metre-high (27 feet) projections, 48 screen multi-touch interactive panels, and motion tracking technology. Called The Cube, its purpose is to engage and inspire the next generation of thinkers and doers, and provide an immersive and participatory experience for everyone to enjoy. […]
The mothership 16:9 Podcast – which now has 40 episodes and some 85,000 downloads, is sponsored by digital signage content provider Screenfeed all the way through 2017 and beyond, but I’m now looking for a suitable sponsor for the companion podcast, Projects. […]
Here are some images showing the impressive digital visual implementation at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The museum, which has a readily evident focus, first opened in Sept. 2014, but I THINK it has been steadily adding new galleries. […]
This week, we’re talking experience design with Sean Keathley, the president of Adrenaline, an Atlanta-based company that’s in the business of coming up with the strategy, the content and technologies to make spaces like banks, stores and hospitals really work. […]
There’s been a lot of talk about how HTML5 is the future of digital signage content, and Paul Vincent knows more about that than just about anyone out there. He’s the founder and CEO of Flexitive, an online tool for building advertising and content using everything HTML5 brings to the table. I first bumped into Paul three years ago at a tech trade show in Toronto. […]
A Swedish pharmacy chain, Apotek Hjärtat, is running a digital OOH campaign in that country that uses sensors and triggered content to needle and shame passing cigarette smokers. […]
Guest Post: Debbie DeWitt, Visix You’ve spent untold resources – both time and money – getting your digital signage system up and running. But is it working? Do people look at your screens? […]
Even digital signage nerds miss industry stuff right in front of their eyes. When I was in New York a few weeks ago, I finally had a chance to see the flashy Microsoft store on 5th Avenue, at 53rd, just down from Trump Tower. I was immediately looking inside at the visually dominant back video wall, and the near seamless digital side walls. […]
This deserves a big audience – the annual festive season video from the folks at signage solutions provider Telecine in Montreal, sent out this afternoon in an email blast. Your host is Telecine owner James Fine. Very well done! […]
Spotted in Retail Gazette Here’s a look inside the first bricks and mortar shop for the online fast-fashion brand Missguided – a 20,000 sq. ft. shop in London’s Westfield Stratford shopping mall. […]
