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. […]
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 2s to light up its on-premise messaging. […]
Transport for London (TfL), the public body that governs and runs the surface and mass transport networks in the UK capital, has started testing an intriguing mash-up of fairly old school digital OOH technology with real time data, in an effort to help motorists avoid overly clogged roads. Targeted messages run on GPS-enabled LED boards stuck on the tops of some 200 London black cabs. […]
We’ve seen, for at least the last couple of years, startups and retailers taking different, often interesting stabs at interactive mirrors in retail environments. They’ve tended to be about the dressing room experience, but the athletic wear retailer Lululemon went in a decidedly different direction with a test installation at its New York flagship store. […]
This is a nicely targeted and executed interactive application aimed at children and their parents shopping this season at the Indooroopilly Shopping Centre in Brisbane, Australia. Customers entering a Christmas interaction zone at the mall are greeted on a screen by various Christmas characters, such as Santa, a reindeer and a snowman. […]
Adobe announced at the start of this week the formal, albeit slow demise of its much loved and hated multimedia tool Flash. The company is shifting heavily to HTML5, and winding down Flash as a product. When Adobe releases its Creative Cloud update next month, Flash Professional will change its handle to Adobe Animate CC. […]
Digital signage networks are content-hungry beasts, and one of the ways to keep fresh and happy is through subscription content services. Those content feeds can vary quite a bit from company to company, but the business models tend to be similar. […]
Here’s a couple of visuals from the recently renovated Cisco Customer Experience Center in Silicon Valley, put together by San Jose-based signage-centric agency Array Interactive, Array developed the idea, design and experience in partnership with Cisco’s global Service Provider Marketing and Briefing Program Management teams. […]
Ok, I’m back at World HQ after a week in Dubai. Mission accomplished on establishing some business ties way over there, and in going sufficiently far away that I’ve frequent flyer gold status again. If you fly a lot, you’ll understand the value of separate check-ins, early boarding and, in international hubs, showers. […]
I’ve written in the past about how Apple’s much-imitated minimalist store design has always been, at least to me, curiously light on digital signage. A typical store has screens, but those screens are accents. Very different story at Dubai’s Mall of the Emirates, which has a giant, fine pixel pitch LED wall that dominates the rear of the newly opened store. […]
The French interactive software firm IntuiLab has pushed out a new version of its IntuiFace platform – which enables people to develop touchscreen applications without having any real coding skills – that layers in what it calls enterprise-class data tracking capability. […]
I really like the automated content approach and utility that start-up TransitScreen is bringing to digital signage, however I can’t help but think the cluttered layout rule that applies to every other kind of digital signage should apply with this stuff, as well. In short, there’s way too much going on at once on those screens. […]
The CBS Morning News had a piece this morning about new technologies that have spruced up the 53-year-old Space Needle tower in Seattle, and the element that caught my eye was something it calls the SkyPad. Developed and guided by the local studio Belle & Wissell, the SkyPad interactive wall is a set of tiled touch displays on a wall on the observation deck level of the landmark structure. […]
People who know me a bit know that I tend to often talk about the mystifyingly short list of companies that specialize in creative, in an industry that goes on endlessly about content being king. […]
Via Av Magazine Here’s an interesting spin on projection mapping, that addresses what to do about the marketing investment when the sun is up. In this case, two traditional billboards facing each other across a square in Milan have static messaging by day and motion by night, the billboards lit up by long throw projector lenses flanking the billboards. […]
