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Screenfeed Goes Beautifully Minimal With New Spectrum Weather Service

Loyal 16:9 blog and podcast sponsor Screenfeed just announced a very nice new subscription weather service that takes advantage of HTML5 to be highly configurable and animated. Called Spectrum Weather, the service has a wonderfully minimalist look that flies in the face of ALL the cluttered, often cheap looking layouts that persist in the signage marketplace. […]

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Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 2:32 PM

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Action Flick Trailer Gets Debut Across 22 Giant LED Boards In Times Square

The producers behind The Fate of the Furious – which I think is a chick flick about annoyed shoppers and a woman who controls the Christmas shopping line-up outside of a Kate Spade outlet store – did a massive takeover last night of many of the LED boards in Times Squares to hype the movie and the trailer. […]

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Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 5:33 PM

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Air Transat, Moment Factory Team Up On Experiential Kiosks At Montreal’s Main Airport

Montreal’s Moment Factory, the experiential media agency, is involved with charter vacations air carrier Air Transat, also based in Montreal, on a new permanent installation interactive installation at that city’s main airport. […]

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Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 1:13 PM

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Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Daniel Siden, Lightvert

This week’s podcast is a little tough, because I’m going to ask listeners to get their brains around something they really need to see. And something that’s just emerging from R&D, so you can’t see it. But, it’s more than worth listening to Daniel Siden talk about Lightvert, a UK-based start-up that has technology that creates huge digital billboards that only exist in your vision. […]

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Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 12:15 AM

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Ebay Creates Big Digital Experiences For New Silicon Valley Campus Welcome Center

A new central building on the Silicon Valley campus of ecommerce giant eBay, called Main Street, serves as the main gateway and front door for the company. It’s a technology-rich building intended to drive brand identity, capture the rapid pulse of the company and more practically provide much-needed flexible, well-equipped spaces for hosted meetings, conferences, and events. […]

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Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 11:52 AM

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North Face Hangs Atmospheric Video Walls In Palo Alto Flagship Store

Via Retail Design Blog Here’s some shots, but not much digital signage detail, about a North Face flagship store that opened earlier this year in the very high rent district of Palo Alto, California, at the shopping center in the shadows of Stanford University. The images come from Retail Design Blog, and it details a store design put together by a firm called Green Room. […]

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Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 1:00 PM

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New Taipei’s Christmasland Is Massively Projection-Mapped

They are into Christmas in a BIG way in New Taipei, judging by the massive projection mapping and lighting spectacle staged for the holiday season in the Taiwan city. […]

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Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 10:35 AM

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Projects: Big Digital Experiences Now Greet Visitors To US Bank’s LA Skyline Deck

You can go up to the 69th and 70th floors of the US Bank Tower in LA to get a 360-degree view of that city, looking west to the beaches and ocean and the mountains beyond the city’s basin. To get up there, you first stop at the 54th floor, and that’s where a new set of experiential projections have been set up to greet visitors. […]

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Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 10:37 AM

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Projects: Poland’s Posnania Lights Up Ambitious Digital Sign Program

Pretty much all the information is in Polish, and translate tools can only do so much, but what’s evident in any language is that this is a very impressive digital project at a high-end shopping mall in west-central Poland. The mall is called Posnania and is in the city of Poznan. […]

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Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 9:27 AM

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16:9: If I Hear “Content Is King” One More Time, I’ll Scream

Guest post: Vern Freedlander If I hear someone say “content is king” one more time, I am going to scream. Vern Freedlander There is nothing new about this statement. We all know content is important. […]

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Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 12:46 PM

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16:9: Does The World Need Interactive Gas Pumps? Clue: No

Via Adweek Is the two to three minutes you spend at a gas pump an tedious, endless ordeal, or two to three minutes you spend absently looking around as the tank fills up? For me, it’s the latter. I survive, somehow. […]

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Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 9:05 AM

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Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Phil Lenger, Show And Tell

Phil Lenger of Show and Tell is a busy guy, but he slowed down long enough to sit recently for a chat in his company’s New York offices, near Penn Station. He even offered a sip or two from one of the many, many bottles of seriously good bourbon he has stocked in the corner of Show and Tell’s meeting space. But I behaved myself, and so did he. […]

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Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 12:13 AM

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UX Designers: Your Duty Is To Design Self-Service Systems That Are Just Obvious Yo Use

Guest Post: Bryan Crotaz, Silver Curve I spent 20 recently minutes trying to get out of a car park. With a row of cars behind me queued up hooting. Not the most fun I’ve had lately, and it was the second day in a row it happened. […]

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Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 1:53 PM

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What If You Could Pair A Media Player Browser With Smart Lights?

Via Engadget … Philips has marketed ambient halo lighting around some of  its TVs and displays for a few years how, with little LED lights in the back or around the edges doing things like picking up the dominant color on the screen and creating a halo around and behind. […]

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Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 9:23 AM

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See All The Top Digital Display Installs In NYC With This Free Tour Guide App

Longtime New York-based digital signage design and solution shop Show And Tell has put together a smartphone app for iOS or Android that allows digital signage nerds and newbies to get a guided tour of many of the best installations in the city. […]

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Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 9:25 AM

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