Archive for May, 2009

POPAI Germany Digital Awards Results

Friday, May 15th, 2009

Russ Curry, Ministry of New Media

POPAI D-A-CH, the German, Swiss, Austrian chapter of the global association for marketing at retail, iniated the  POPAI Digital Awards at the Digital Signage Expo in Essen last week, in order to showcase good examples for digital signage solutions and to highlight innovation and development . The finalists of 6 categories presented their project entries life at […]

Sony Campaign, Talinn, Estonia

Friday, May 15th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Here’s a nice Motomedia campaign based on the successful bus shelter campaign run by Sony in Holland last year BUT this time using a mix of LCD, projection and motion detecting software. The mechanic is consumers taking pictures of themselves and being displayed on the projection screen and an incredible 3,100 pictures were taken in […]

Wallpaper* Editorial Content With Titan

Friday, May 15th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Just launched (May 2009) and running for 6 months we really like the idea of this Wallpaper* content being shown on Titan Outdoor‘s Digital rail D6 poster sites. Wallpaper* is an iconic international design, fashion and lifestyle magazine and imagery will be taken from each new issue and displayed on 50 sites across London in […]

Colours Of Digital Signage, Moscow

Friday, May 15th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

We don’t get the title of this event and not even our linguistic experts can pick up any clues from Russian or the Cyrilic alphabet but still, this second International conference entitled ‘The colours of Digital Signage’ is taking place on the 28th and 29th May at the Moscow State Exhibition Hall ‘New Manezh’. Last […]

Distec’s Solar Driven Scroller

Friday, May 15th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

It’s green, it scrolls, it has a zero carbon footprint, it’s a great idea and really well engineered (as you would expect from it’s German manufacturer) but it may not win any awards from those who are worried about ‘visual clutter’ or ‘urban pollution‘ Heinsberg-based DISTEC GmbH have developed the first solar-driven scroller for outdoor […]

Don Sperring

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Don Sperring announces he is to leave JCDecaux at the end of June

Die Mutter Aller Totem

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

Russ Curry, Ministry of New Media

The mother of all totems dropped out of the sky on to the Deutsche Telekom stand at the Digital Signage Expo in Essen, Germany last week. We reacted like the apes in the opening scenes of ‘2001- A Space Odyssey’– staring at it, walking around it, scratching our heads & armpits before daring to touch […]

More Than Just Beans For Your Buck

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

Guest Contributor, Leoš Smutný

When I buy a coffee from a drinks machine I get the feeling that it takes an eternity till I feel the cup of hot coffee in my hand. I shall spare you a description of how I feel when the vending machine accepts my money but leaves me empty handed or when instead of […]

World’s Largest LCD from SHARP

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

Russ Curry, Ministry of New Media

The 108″ screen on show at Essen last week, is considered by SHARP as their flagship LCD monitor for commercial applications, and is billed as the world’s largest. Not exactly new, the first installation was at the Shinjuku Piccadilly cinema complex (Shochiku Co. Ltd.), one of Tokyo’s premier multiplex movie theatres, in July last year. […]

New Broom Sweeps Clean

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

In February we reported that ‘Mike Darcy had joined CAN Media As COO‘ and as we twittered earlier this morning, it looks now like the new broom sweeps clean and a number of personnel changes have started to be made. Expect some good people to be coming onto the UK job market now and over […]