This is about as low-rent as I’ve seen for digital signs in a retail environment, save for TVs and DVDs/VCRs just plopped on tables or shelves. These are digital photo frame black-taped into coroplast frames, running endlessly repeating product promo loops (with tinny audio) in the cleaning supplies aisle at my local Canadian Tire. […]
This looks kind of amazing – 12 football fields worth of digital visuals on LED and projection in the new Meraas City Walk market in Dubai. Overall, the Meraas project involves more than 30 LED installations in 21 different formats and nearly 30 high-res projectors totalling over 80 million pixels. It’s easily one of the most ambitious digital installs done to date, globally. […]
James and Connie Maynard Children’s Hospital at Vidant Medical Center in Greenville, NC The James and Connie Maynard Children’s Hospital at Vidant Medical Center in Greenville, SC is using a combination of digital signage players and screens, synced with audio and mood lighting, to run a sensory-driven solution in treatment rooms that are designed to defuse the anxiety of the kids and ease the worries of their families. […]
This is well done – an immersion zone on London’s Waterloo Station promoting the Ghostbusters remake. The campaign broke today in the rail station, launched by Sony Pictures and run via ad-concession owner JCDecaux today. […]
Guest Post: Nir Doron, Novisign Nir Doron After almost a decade in the digital signage business, I’m accustomed to seeing displays up and running in many businesses and venues where there were never screens. But I still get surprised by things – like screens at amusement parks and state parks. […]
This is a nice example how a blend of digital display, analog print and necessary functionality can all blend together into an effective digital OOH ad piece. Monster Media has a campaign in bustling Atlanta Hartsfield Airport for Royal Caribbean International, the cruise ship company. […]
Guest Post: Cornelia Henkel, Advanced Digital Solutions Cornelia Henkel The ongoing digital convergence of digital signage, IT, consumer electronics, telecommunications and the media industry will pose major challenges on system integration issues, but also promise to augment viewer experiences to a completely new stage. […]
If you work on the operations side of the digital signage business, you know all about the complications and cost of “rolling a truck” to visit a deployed site to get an outage resolved. Ideally, truck rolls are a last resort because you need to find qualified techs, schedule them in, and get ready for an invoice of several hundred dollars … or more. […]
The little E Ink meeting room signs marketed by Slovenia’s Visionect are among the winners of a big industrial design award competition, called Red Dot. Visionect’s Joan Meeting Room Assistant won in the Product Design category of the awards. […]
Photography by Brandon Barre This is the new Samsung store at Toronto’s Sherway Gardens shopping centre, which has displays sprinkled through the store, including a big 95-inch panel embedded in an entry side wall, and another at the back. The design was done by Vancouver-based design group Cutler, and there are more pix here on Retail Design Blog. […]
This is the digital menuboard set-up for a small German cafe chain called CAFETIERO, which is run by the exhibitions and event catering firm The Stockheim Group. The company uses 40-inch displays for menus, and nicely surrounds them in decorative picture frames. […]
I’m not exactly a frequent traveler to Europe, but what time I’ve had over there left me with the impression damn near everyone still smokes. So I’m not surprised a digital OOH product called Ashvertising is still around. A reader sent me a pic (below) he grabbed of one of these hybrid screens/ashtrays outside an establishment in Brussels, Belgium. […]
In this episode, I’m speaking with Jennifer Davis, who is Chief Marketing Officer for Leyard and also the VP of Marketing and Product Strategy for Planar, which is now owned by Leyard. So she’s one busy puppy these days. […]
If you are interested in emerging tech you might want to set aside an hour next Tuesday, July 12, for a webinar I’m running with a couple of interesting UK-based companies. The session, put on by Canonical, the guys behind Ubuntu Linux, features Nikodem Lacki, CTO of Boldmind, and Ebrahim Busheri, CEO of Lime SDR. […]
A lot of traffic on this site continues to be generated by readers looking for low-cost digital signage player solutions – as in 100s of page views a day just for a round-up of Raspberry Pi options. I also see a lot of interest in posts involving Chrome devices and PC sticks. […]
