Using LEDs in dimensional letters

Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) continue to gain popularity throughout the lighting industry, with different types available for different applications, including everything from sign letters and traffic lights to electronic indicators and Christmas lights.

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Producing content for multiple platforms

The digital signage industry has a proven history of enabling the delivery of real-time content to screens of different types and sizes. Now, the content creation workflow concepts that have been developed and the best practices learned over the years are being incorporated into management tools for other applications.

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How strategy can lead to success

While digital signage has become a well-established medium for communications today, there still seem to be major stumbling blocks as it is adopted by new users. “I know we need to use digital signage,” says the typical executive at a company looking into the technology for the first time, “but I don’t know why!”

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Adding logos to ice sculptures

For several years running, La Bodega Tapas Bar and Grill in Regina has commissioned an annual ‘ice bar’ to be sculpted on its outdoor patio. This winter tradition is part of an effort to raise money for Regina Transition House, a local emergency shelter that helps women and children affected by violence.

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Creating special effects

Even with the rise of digital inkjet printing technologies, screenprinting remains the leading process for specialty additives, effects and coatings. Inks are easily interchangeable on a press and can be customized to the finished piece.

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How to wrap a snowman

For a new winter campaign in 2012, Tourism Toronto recently commissioned the Torontoland Snowmen, a series of 20 unique fibreglass objets d’art, which were wrapped with digitally printed graphics specially designed by local and international artists and then installed throughout the city.

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