Author Archive

¡Two More Amigos!

Monday, July 12th, 2010

Alex Hughes

Amigo Digital would like to introduce and welcome to the DOOH industry, two new members of staff; Murry Hussain and Bart Miko. Murry and Bart are both talented Motion Graphics designers with individual specialisms in idea generation, 3D modeling and professional moving image design. The additions come at a time when Amigo is expanding and […]

You Wouldn’t Put One On An iPad

Friday, July 9th, 2010

Alex Hughes

I was on the train to London this morning using my iPad to catch up on a few emails and have a bit of a browse when it struck me that you wouldn’t see a ticker on an iPad. OK, I may be stretching the DOOH metaphor a little when I suggest that the iPad […]

iPhone 4 – The Wait is Over…

Thursday, June 24th, 2010

Alex Hughes

OK, OK so I finally did it – yes, join a queue to buy an Apple product – I had promised myself I wouldn’t get excited but at 8.30am this morning I was one of 200 checking their old 3G’s, taking pics of the queue and mailing all their friends. 2 hours later and I […]

Christie Gravity Desk

Saturday, May 15th, 2010

Alex Hughes

At #ScreenMediaExpo, many of you who visited might have noticed at the front of the Christie Digital stand, their welcome desk. This was actually what could be termed a piece of Furniture+. Not only was it a desk but it was  a desk with an integrated horizontal screen and a side column with an integrated […]

Steve Jobs Hates DailyDOOH

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

Alex Hughes

Steve Jobs hates DailyDOOH Flash… For what it’s worth first picture of DailyDOOH running on my new Apple iPad.

#ScreenMediaExpo 2010 Virals

Monday, April 26th, 2010

Alex Hughes

The #ScreenMediaExpo 2010 viral campaign is now well underway and can be seen here. This year the theme is a ‘World of Digital Out of Home’ and the story so far sees the Earth being targeted by beings from another planet who are interested in planet earth as a networked world of intelligent DOOH advertising. […]

Hey DOOH Don’t Make It Bad…

Monday, March 22nd, 2010

Alex Hughes

Sir Paul McCartney is the latest entertainment client of ours to make use of the content creation flexibility of DOOH advertising. Using the poster assets (already) advertising his latest concert at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Amigo Digital developed some simple creative animations to bring the poster campaign to life. Three screen specifications were required, […]

#ISE2010 – Pink Campaign

Friday, February 5th, 2010

Alex Hughes

We have had a few requests to see in full the Pink Campaign with which we won the InAVate Digital Signage Content Award. This version of the graphic was shown in Manchester in 2009.

#ISE2010 Amigo Wins InAVation Award

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

Alex Hughes

On the evening of Wednesday 3rd February at the InAVation awards Amigo Digital won the Digital Signage Content Award for the work that we did in 2009 with the PINK Campaign. It is our first award so we are all absolutely over the moon! The Pink creative was a vibrant campaign produced for 4 very […]

#ISE2010 – MicroTiles EMEA Launch

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

Alex Hughes

We have just come back from the EMEA launch of Christie Digital’s MicroTiles. There was a good turnout – something like 29 journalists registered their interest to attend but a crowd of 60 or 70 crowded around the booth. Adrian Cotterill MC’ed the event with some style and handled the Q+As at the end of […]