Transit Design: The Brand of a City (Part 5)

Transit Design Derailed: How Environments Evolve Out of Control For every modern architectural transit masterpiece, there are hundreds of transit environments which have fallen into poor visual design decay. What is that? It’s got nothing to do with physical disrepair...

Transit Design: The Brand of a City (Part 4)

Ignoring the Signs Recently while doing a site analysis, we were watching pedestrian flow with a member of the transit facility staff. As we observed one particular area of confusion, the staff member off-handedly asked, “Why don’t people just read the signs?!?” It...

Transit Design: The Brand of a City (Part 3)

This is a continuation of a series of thoughts from my Transit Design Journal. Previous entries available here. Customer Happiness by Traveler Type The biggest complaints by transit passengers vary depending on the profile of the traveller, but generally fall into 2...

Transit Design: The Brand of a City (Part 2)

Introduction: Over the years, Show+Tell has worked on the Environmental Design / Signage Design of numerous Transit Centers in many major cities around the world. We’ve seen some great design and some not-so-great examples, both giving us a great record of “lessons...

Transit Design: The Brand of a City (Part 1)

Introduction: Over the years, Show+Tell has worked on the Environmental Design / Signage Design of numerous Transit Centers in many major cities around the world. We’ve seen some great design and some not-so-great examples, both giving us hundreds of “lessons...

South Beach Hotel, Singapore – Video Display

While traveling in Singapore, we stayed at the whimsical Philippe Stark-designed South Beach Hotel. While everything about this hotel is a wild and crazy design experience, the piece that immediately impressed me was the large, high resolution digital video display...

Apple Store Digital Display

On a recent visit to Dubai, we visited the new Apple Store concept. One thing of note is no more genius bar - it's now among some indoor trees and called the "Genius Grove". Most impressive was a large video display in the rear of the store - very high resolution (2...

Making Displays Worthwhile for Retailers

Written by Philip Lenger, featured this month on Sparksheet - Good ideas about content, media and marketing. Digital out-of-home advertising can be the bane of shoppers’ existence or the shopping guide they never knew they needed. Show+Tell founder Philip Lenger...

Laser Projection in Midair

Though very experimental, this technology by Aerial Burton looks to be very interesting. Combining infrared lasers and plasma emissions, bright pixels appear in midair.  Watch the video. Gonna wait for the 4K version to come out before we buy one!...

Times Square Advertising InfoGraphic

A recent post in Ad Week illustrates the power of Times Square advertising. The key takeaway here is that this may be the only place in advertising where the ads ARE the show. Click here for the original Ad Week posting.

Thinking Out of the Box

This is encouraging to see. The dream we all have had - the ability to design screens without the rectangular boundaries - is becoming more of a reality every day. Sharp has announce a new Free-Form Display technology which allows for screens to be almost any shape....

Not Digital Signage, but its cool

While I enjoy great 3D projection mapping on castles and skyscrapers, there's something very cool about bringing the scale down and doing it on smaller shapes and forms. I love this concept that shows off these architectural models in very creative ways. Would be a...

A Link – Boxes!

Very creative use of projectors and boxes as video displays. Interactive installation with projection mapping http://vimeo.com/17560592#at=0

Billboards Unplugged – Content Magic

I was fortunate enough to be a speaker at last weeks Billboards Unplugged event, part of DPBMedia Week and one of the Thought Leadership Summits put on by the fine folks at the DailyDOOH. I'll be posting here with some of the individual thoughts, but for the record,...

Magical Effect

http://vimeo.com/75260457 The clever, clever folks over at Bot & Dolly have put together this demo of some of their super smart robots and theatrical technologies. You really have to see it to believe it. In Magic, there is always a little disappointment when you...

Whimsical Water Screen Allows for Super Soaker Control

Antonin Fourneau has developed a fun and beautiful installation that seems to mix electricity and water in a good way - for our viewing pleasure. Called Water Light Graffiti, the exhibit encourages visitors to douse the display with buckets of water, providing for...

Perfect Digital Sign Interaction

Jay Leno does a bit with hidden cameras and digital signage at a gas pump. In this clip, he finds the coolest couple willing to let loose and have some fun. (Hang around until the end.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZNM0ENUCO5I Can we ever...

CAVE2 Project – 72 Screens of Awesome

The University of Illinois at Chicago is doing some very nice work with a visualization lab called Cave2. It is capable of 320 degrees of 2D or 3D imagery at stunningly high resolutions. They'll be using it for medical, architectural and physics models and research....

Making Times Square Happier

A new report out today claims researchers have discovered Times Square is the happiest place in New York. We're happy to be part of the team that keeps the smiles coming. via New York Post

What is Environmental Design?

We consider ourselves part of an industry which is sometimes referred to as Environmental Design. This community is a very broad group which includes Architects, and other designers of the Retail, Interior, Graphic, Wayfinding, Themed Environment and Industrial...

Photosynth

This is an example of a system that allows for a virtually infinite amount of visual data to be explored in some very unique ways. Watch this video and think about it for a few minutes. This is really cool stuff (even if it is from Microsoft!)...

LEDs in Glass

No visible wires. Cool LED display where there are no visible wires. Check out the video on the link. SUN-TEC Co.

Great Times Square Photo

An excellent HDR Times Square Photo HDR stands for "High Dynamic Range" and is a photographic technique that produces very dramatic images. You can get the bigger rez version of it on here on flickr. Click here to see some more HDR stuff and see how they are made.

Table of Music

Watch the video here: Touch Screen Techno More info here: Reactable